A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
American politics really is one of the dumbest, most corrupt things out there. Good god.
This feels like trying to trick your dog into taking his medicine, by hiding it in its food. So apparently your average US Senator is as dumb as a Golden Retriever if they need this tactic to actually get shit done.
It’s insane that Americans still tolerate this. Clearly they don’t have your best interests as their main focus.
It’s insane that Americans still tolerate this.
A consistent viewpoint I see on America, is the assumption that if we don’t like a politician we can simply say so and they’re out of office. One of the biggest problems here is actually that most people feel lacking in their personal control on the government, even local. Everything is such a large scale, that ‘speaking up’ not only feels like it does nothing—it really does nothing, unless you’re famous or something. No one here is happy about how our government works, we just don’t have control over it. It’s an illusion of control, while the people at the top make the actual choices.
to the person in the image. no, tiktok ruined your attention span and helped ruin your life, same if it gets sold or you switch to something else
Fun fact: these days, Tiktok is the main social media outlet for uncensored pro-Palestine activism, owing to the fact that Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube tend to censor most criticism of the Israeli apartheid government.
THAT’S why they’re suddenly pretending that its spying on users is any worse than that of the others (it’s not) now of all times: AIPAC and other major donors are feeling the heat and want to shut people up.
That and because it’s an election year and the combination of xenophobia and pretending to care about online privacy appeals to a wide selection of gullible prospective voters.
It’s not for “uncensored pro-Palestine activism”, it’s a primary vector for distributing blatant propaganda and misinformation. China is one of the big three who are aggressively pushing a pro-Hamas narrative on social media:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
In case of paywall:
the NYT is a pro-Israel newspaper. See their recently leaked guidelines on covering Israel.
They can be pro or against Israel, but this article, which you likely didn’t even read, is entirely factual.
Their news is biased, I do not trust the NYT on Israel as you seem to blindly do. This is like linking a Fox News article on trans people.
Show me a single sentence in this article that is wrong or misleading.
Fuck off asshole. Fuck your shitty NYT article.
WHY IS THIS STILL ALLOWED
Because it’s the only way to get things done in a divided government?
My state has a rule restricting bills to one thing, and it seems to work pretty well.
Package a TikTok bill along with aid for Ukraine, Israel AND Taiwan? Even lumping the aid bills together for 3 different countries is odd but the hell does TikTok now have to do with any of it? This is a weird system you guys got there.
Bernie Sanders has been saying for 30 years that the bill is too damn long! Representatives get very limited time to read bills so they usually don’t and just vote along party lines. This is a form of deception and it’s intentional.
TikTok is controlled by the CCP which will happily push propaganda that impacts all three countries.
First off it’s not owned by the CCP and 2nd off almost all media you consume in America is American propaganda.
I didn’t say owned, and if you think they don’t control it you’re ignorant of how the CCP works.
Well aware of how they work, you’re just a dumbass that eats up American propaganda.
Go back to hexbear tankie trash
Ok nazi
It sucks I know, but if it gets Ukraine aid passed, lump in everything together. That’s the most important piece of legislation needed right now and we need it to pass.
How does aid for Ukraine change the fact I work 50 hours a week and can’t afford a studio apartment?
It doesn’t because you not being able to afford a studio apartment doesn’t plunge NATO into a war.
I gotta be honest, this is probably the stupidest comparison I’ve ever heard.
The fuck do I care about Nato if I can’t afford housing and food? Fuck NATO
Ukraine is a major global food supplier. The war has directly impacted food prices. And if Russia succeeds, it will only encourage more conflict of this kind. And that’s ignoring the possibility that this will escalate into an even larger conflict because Putin decides that NATO’s resolve is weak enough that article 5 is no longer a plausible threat.
Also, that stupid argument applies just as much to funding schools, cancer research, fighting climate change and basically all other functions of government that serve the public good. We should do more to address economic issues, but that doesn’t mean we should stop doing everything else.
the hell does TikTok now have to do with any of it?
Military spending bills will benefit the military industrial complex, and banning TikTok will benefit the military industrial complex.
“TikTok changed my life for the better” Jesus fuck
Honestly did for me. I love TikTok, and it feels like the social media app with the best news and conversations. Seriously.
Oh for fucks sake who did that?
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