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If voting doesn't matter, why do Republicans work so hard to prevent voting?
It depends on where you live. Some states your individual vote will not matter because the outcome has already been decided by the popularity of one party.
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It's not about giving up on them. It's about being willing to accept that you haven't lived up to those values and make the changes necessary to uphold them. While still in the wrong, how seriously should China or Russia take the country that lead the invasion and occupation of Iraq/Afghanistan for 20 odd years when it offers it's condemnation of their own ambitions? To be frank, how can we expect anyone to take our…
Do you feel at all represented by your elected officials? Did you vote for them? If not, why would you accept the burden of guilt for their actions? A relative handful of people made all the torture decisions for us. I don't think I want them hiding behind the flag, or me.
Personally it varies depending on the official. I think at some level we do bear some responsibility for those who represent us, I don't necessarily believe that crosses into guilt as much it does a call to action. The corrupt and unethical rely on a combination of apathy and normalisation in order to get away with their actions.
> A relative handful of people made all the torture decisions for us. I don't think I want them hiding behind the flag, or me.
I want them pushed out from behind the flag and into a jail cell.
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It's just a video app, exercise some self-discipline and self-accountability and uninstall the app.
Great if you're able to do that easily. Please understand that some of the most brilliant minds in the world get up in the morning usually somewhere in California, and work many hours in the day, and their literal job is to figure out how to subvert this.
It’s one thing to show you stimulating content once you open the app but it’s a whole another level of self-deception to convince yourself that you can’t prevent yourself from opening the app.
"Poison pill" is the wrong phrase here. That has a different meaning. TikTok is not a social network. It's a short-form Youtube competitor. It's an entertainment system. China has WeChat, which is much closer to Facebook in style. It's mobile-first, which turned out to be a good decision. It handles messaging, shopping, ads, banking... It's a closed replacement for the Web. TikTok is mostly push, for timepass (a usef…
> TikTok is not a social network I mean... it's made up of people "socializing", just through videos. People dancing to trends, doing duets. "hey what's your tiktok so I can see what you post/who you follow/what you like/what defines you as a person socially partially" It for sure has a social aspect. It's kind of splitting hairs to say it isn't a social network. I agree. It isn't Facebook. I'm not catching up with r…
TikTok makes me incredibly angry and I need to vent about it somewhere so I am going to vent about it here. I have ADHD. TikTok is almost certainly designed in a way to directly exploit that fact. It really makes me angry. It feels like they are making a real attempt to take my agency away and to create a product that triggers me so viscerally that I can't keep away from it. I feel like I am intentionally being taken…
As an ex-smoker, I never felt any anger towards cigarette companies. Only anger I felt was towards government regulations like banning smoking indoors or high taxes on cigarettes. Also felt a bit annoyed with society judging the smokers. Even when I was trying to quit, I didn't blame cigarette companies. Now in retrospect, I am glad that those regulations, taxes, and judgmental stares slowly nudged me towards quittin…
TikTok makes me incredibly angry and I need to vent about it somewhere so I am going to vent about it here. I have ADHD. TikTok is almost certainly designed in a way to directly exploit that fact. It really makes me angry. It feels like they are making a real attempt to take my agency away and to create a product that triggers me so viscerally that I can't keep away from it. I feel like I am intentionally being taken…
I also have ADHD and I made the mistake of downloading TikTok once. It ended up costing me a lot of time, money, and a significant chunk of my attention span. It became so bad that I couldn't focus at work because all I could think about was TikTok. I uninstalled it and haven't looked back. I don't feel angry at the company, but I do feel exploited and preyed on. Makes me worried about the kids that use this app and…
I mean that genuinely. I feel like I'd be upset in your shoes. Are you looking at it differently somehow?
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>It'd be practically impossible to enforce the 'privacy' concerns, But US would first need a law, now you just surrendered before you even tried. It could be possible to enforce it, you find an illegal action you slap them with a fine, find a new infraction slap them again and again. Do I need to spend my time thinking for americans? Make a law so Tik Tok keeps US people data in US, force them to have US employees an…
"Do I need to spend my time thinking for americans? " Only if makes sense, and unfortunately, I don't think it does in this case. Which is the point: TikTok can't really be TikTok with those laws in place. There's no way to make any US or European privacy laws gel with CCP policy and there's no realistic way to 'segregate the data'. The only 'solution' would be to have a complete and total separation of the app in al…
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What seats are changing party? I live in California where my vote counts the least. Since I turned 18 every single election has sent a Democrat to Washington for both senate seats and my representative and president (though California doesn't have final say on that last one). Currently, of those 4 seats, 3 are in their high 70s or even 80s and the 4th was appointed by the governor. I'm in my 30s. My interests are eit…
What seats are changing party: In November there are 50 tight races for house seats alone. The house and senate play a huge role in legislation so this election will have massive impact. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-election-forecast/... Even if you live in WA/CA your vote still matters. At the federal level there are 4 elected positions, 14 at the state level, and more at a local level. There are also p…
I do also vote in primaries, those have typically gone opposite to how I voted, or else were a foregone landslide for my pick.
I also never implied I live in WA. Apparently you got confused because I spelled out the name of the capital city of this country.
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America is more Brave New World than 1984; people can protest the government, but if that protest rarely overcomes the inertia of the status quo, does it even matter?
Yes of course it matters. Is it sufficient? Probably not. But it’s a substantial improvement over not being able to e.g. protest the government. Anyway, our government isn’t designed to be steered by protest but by voting, which despite all its flaws does shift inertia.
You cannot meaningfully vote in the US, you have two options that have similar fascist views of the rest of the world and are unlikely to change anything. That is a false choice, meant to lull the chooser into a false sense of agency.
An a non-American the level of anti-TikTok sentiment seems really weird, it really does just seem like sinophobia - especially given there's no proof that TikTok is actually being used by the Chinese, whereas Snowden etc. has shown us that the USA already does stuff like this. I'm not really sure what the People's Liberation Army will do with all my cat videos anyway...
By any chance are you German?