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The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by isr »

spwa4 wrote: post #16
j_maffe wrote: post #6

One has to wonder why the only major non-Western social media outlet turns out to not suppress anti-Israeli sentiment. Of course it could be possible that TikTok could have placed a bias in the algorithm somewhere. But honestly I think it's more likely that the bias is in the Western social media platforms, as has been reported by non-other than Western-media.

Are you joking? China and Russia want "a new world order", which is a reference that would be extremely clear to (older) politicians but not to most people. The US (even under Trump) supports the UN world view, which is a lot of independent small countries that serve their own interests, protected by a group of nuclear-armed "superpowers" that can annihilate each other, but only at the cost of their own lives. The "n…

What a deranged take on things. Makes you wonder what you have to do to get banned around here.

> For Palestinians, it's about money for the rich, not land, not religion or racism. Even though they are racist pseudo-religious fanatics,

I think even a hasbara troll farm would be slightly embarrassed with this nonsense ...

Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by jazzyjackson »

suraci wrote: post #18
spwa4 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you joking? China and Russia want "a new world order", which is a reference that would be extremely clear to (older) politicians but not to most people. The US (even under Trump) supports the UN world view, which is a lot of independent small countries that serve their own interests, protected by a group of nuclear-armed "superpowers" that can annihilate each other, but only at the cost of their own lives. The "n…

> They want chaos, and they probably perceive Israel's attitude as being 20% removed from finally giving the Palestinians the chaos they so desperately seem to want Did you come to this conclusion on your own, or did you see it in an article from some think tank? do other americans think the way as same as you? that "we are the less of evil and the necessary evil" "there are bigger evil outside we must support the em…

A lot of Americans support America being the world police, yes, among them capitalists who like having international waters and various canals and straits open for business, but also a lot of Christians who consider more atheistic nations a threat to global christendom (hence the weird alliance between the American right and Orthodox Russia)

I recognize America has a lot to answer for (Israel too) but I also consider it preferable to a world with Islamic and communist nations being ascendent (the presumed outcome of a weaker America among those of us who like the defense budget where it's at)

Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by suraci »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #22
suraci wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> They want chaos, and they probably perceive Israel's attitude as being 20% removed from finally giving the Palestinians the chaos they so desperately seem to want Did you come to this conclusion on your own, or did you see it in an article from some think tank? do other americans think the way as same as you? that "we are the less of evil and the necessary evil" "there are bigger evil outside we must support the em…

A lot of Americans support America being the world police, yes, among them capitalists who like having international waters and various canals and straits open for business, but also a lot of Christians who consider more atheistic nations a threat to global christendom (hence the weird alliance between the American right and Orthodox Russia) I recognize America has a lot to answer for (Israel too) but I also consider…

Thank you for proving my long-held guess

Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by muddi900 »

spwa4 wrote: post #16
j_maffe wrote: post #6

One has to wonder why the only major non-Western social media outlet turns out to not suppress anti-Israeli sentiment. Of course it could be possible that TikTok could have placed a bias in the algorithm somewhere. But honestly I think it's more likely that the bias is in the Western social media platforms, as has been reported by non-other than Western-media.

Are you joking? China and Russia want "a new world order", which is a reference that would be extremely clear to (older) politicians but not to most people. The US (even under Trump) supports the UN world view, which is a lot of independent small countries that serve their own interests, protected by a group of nuclear-armed "superpowers" that can annihilate each other, but only at the cost of their own lives. The "n…

Yes Russia and China are causing Israelis to elect people like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir.

Xi Jin Ping finances terrorist violence in the West Bank. Putin funds politician that wave around Greater Israel maps in official government gatherings.

Oh wait that's the US!

The fact that you cite Israel as a model for US-backed border stability is hilarious. This is being misinformed on an embarrassing scale. It is ahistorical idea constructed only of state department press releases.

Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by suraci »

muddi900 wrote: post #24

I remember the Robert Fisk quote about the reason Americans don't feel anything for the Palestinians is "they can't see the bodies". Lo and behold they were able to do that on TikTok and now they care.

this also explains why some people intentionally choose not to see the bodies

I found a sense of deja vu related to the scence 'Doesn't look like anything to me' from Westworld when I saw people continuing to ignore the bodies

swipe up, vote down

we tend to ignore those hard truth which may break the running program in our heads

Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by jjtheblunt »

suraci wrote: post #23
jazzyjackson wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of Americans support America being the world police, yes, among them capitalists who like having international waters and various canals and straits open for business, but also a lot of Christians who consider more atheistic nations a threat to global christendom (hence the weird alliance between the American right and Orthodox Russia) I recognize America has a lot to answer for (Israel too) but I also consider…

Thank you for proving my long-held guess

well there are also a lot of americans who support america _not_ being the world police.

Re: The reason behind the TikTok ban

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Post by jazzyjackson »

jjtheblunt wrote: post #28
suraci wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for proving my long-held guess

well there are also a lot of americans who support america _not_ being the world police.

Certainly! And we all have our bubbles, I wanted to add myself as a data point in the “nuclear carrier groups are badass” column, and obviously there as enough engineers who don’t mind working at defense contractors to build the things, just as there’s plenty of engineers who threaten to quit their job at the first hint of a military contract
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