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Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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Yes. And to enrich their buddies and campaign donors like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.

The GOP is still more incompetent than anything I've ever seen.

Bullying, yes. Competency, no.

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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"Someone said something else was bad and it wasn't, so therefore anything else that someone says is bad is also not bad" is an obviously incoherent argument once you strip it down to its basics.

Yeah no I get what you mean, but my argument is like, you should try to be resilient against the arbitrary whims of the powers that be regardless of what their flavour of the week is. Asymmetric power/influence is a dynamic that will always exist in society, especially exacerbated by the scale and reach we see today.

Absolutely! But one of the tools we created to make this possible is government. There are forces (like multinational corporations) that exceed the power of an individual or many individuals to mitigate.

Social media is a far more “effective” technology than TV was, which was more effective than radio before it, and so on. It’s very important we figure out how to counteract these things because the trend is obviously in one direction, which is not the one that culminates in individuals having full, conscious agency over their lives and wellbeing.

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.

The GOP is still more incompetent than anything I've ever seen. Bullying, yes. Competency, no.

So incompetent that they control all three branches of the most powerful government on earth. Much of that can be credited to their media ownership strategies.

Underestimate them at your own peril...

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.

The GOP is still more incompetent than anything I've ever seen. Bullying, yes. Competency, no.

Really? They are following Putin’s playbook and getting away with it. Controlling media and sharing the spoils with the oligarchs. Together, they are robbing us blind. What about what they are doing makes them incompetent? Evil, yes. But incompetent? They are winning! You think this ends with the next election or when ol’ Agent Orange kicks the bucket? Things are going to be very different here for a very long time unless we collectively get our shit together in a big way and take it back.

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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You should be emailing the staff with that request, not complaining in a thread. You should also include your evidence.

They read these threads just fine. I don't recommend emailing since that loses context. Additionally, it makes other people aware of the problem.

Alright, then, why don't you cite the relevant "raging genocidal Zionist" posts and comments here?

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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It's the political komissar, here to make sure nothing too critical of the current administration is allowed on the platform.

This goes way beyond this current administration and has nothing to do with China, besides being the foil for the real reason of controlling what people can see and hear because the cabal that controls the USA does not like it.

Just so we know, who's the cabal?

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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Yes. And to enrich their buddies and campaign donors like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.

I don’t want either of them, but credit where credit is due. China is doing well as a country and the standard of living has increased even if it’s under an authoritarian regime. I wonder how long that will last. Meanwhile, the USA is becoming Russia. Basically a bunch of misinformed morons living in the past and thinking we are on top of the world while we accelerate towards irrelevance on the global stage if not for a massive stockpile of nukes.

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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Yes. And to enrich their buddies and campaign donors like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.

That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.

What an insane thing to say! But also... how insane is it that I agree with you based on objective reality? Can you imagine seriously saying that 20-30 years ago? 1984's doublethink/doublespeak always seemed over the top, yet we are at a point particularly recently where the anti cancel culture sentiment has lead to... proposals to curb undesirable speech, cancelling people... which in turn is undesirable because it criticises a propagandist's undesirable speech with his own post death quotes in a lot of cases and bristles when accused of sane washing. Or that this won't matter in a few more news cycles as we lurch brokenly into the next phase of dystopia.

I wonder how many historical parallels exist and what the outcomes were; IE https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_colors_(Japan) - which I think lead to a flourishing of clothing design for commoners. Like will we see massive social change in two or three generations hence as a rejection of the current hysteria? Will history books record the silliest parts that now seem quaint with a little distance, IE War on Christmas? Mission accomplished? WMDs that didn't exist? Etc etc.

Re: U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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That's bonus. The real thing is to make tiktok a right-wing ideology machine. I'd rather have the CPC than the GOP at the helm.

The GOP is still more incompetent than anything I've ever seen. Bullying, yes. Competency, no.

They put loyal, useful idiots on the public stage. The real leaders are not on TV, you dont even know their names.
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