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TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

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Post by honzabe »

tw1984 wrote: post #887
elcritch wrote: post #682

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Nice subtle twisting of words. There’s an enormous difference between driving slowly through a crowd of protestors with no injuries versus running over protesters with a tank.

show me any photo or video showing the tank man of Tiananmen actually got run over by the tank. you got brainwashed.

I don't think anyone is claiming that the specific famous tank man of Tiananmen got run over by the tank. However, there is plenty of evidence that people got "mowed down by tanks" at Tiananmen Square: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-why-is-the-arm...

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Post by direwolf20 »

9dev wrote: post #802
I-M-S wrote: post #796

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Before Trump, at least we had the hypocrisy —like, at least people would pretend to have a moral higher ground. Now there are just completely shameless thugs in charge. They don’t even bother to lie convincingly anymore; just listen to Kristi Noem in interviews, contradicting herself from sentence to sentence without a care in the world. They won’t be held accountable for anything, and they know it.

Have you listened to the Canadian PM's speech at Davos? He called out all of this.

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Post by direwolf20 »

TheAlchemist wrote: post #799
I-M-S wrote: post #796

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One may genuinly debate the genocide, racism, imperialism etc. But I can guarantee you that the 'opressed working class' in the US had it 100 times better than the non opressed Eastern European one.

Is it? In the USSR, the poor had no indoor plumbing, and bread lines. But in the USA, the poor have no homes, and no bread.

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Post by changadera »

fudged71 wrote: post #772

It's insane right now browsing tiktok and seeing every 3rd or 4th video on my feed have consistent glitches (in the same places of a video, as if my internet was slow which it isn't), on only the videos mentioning resistance topics from the US. Very black mirror. Feels like it's meant more to send a message that your content is flagged, and to watch what you say and do. Otherwise they would just block it or hide it f…

Did the consensus shift about TikTok? I thought it was a given that as tech/IT people TikTok isn’t an app worth having on your phone due to spyware/attention brute forcing/curated propaganda by Chinese government.

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Post by direwolf20 »

aa-jv wrote: post #918
IIAOPSW wrote: post #439

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Dare I say, the Revolution will not be Televised.

The revolution has been tokenized.

Fresh NFTs! Get your fresh NFTs! We've got revolution, civil war, fascism, communism, all for the low low price of just ten thousand bitcoin!

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Post by direwolf20 »

danudey wrote: post #785
lbrito wrote: post #433

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You don't understand. Its different: _they_ were doing it. The Bad Guys. Now _we_, the Good Guys, are doing it. Therefore, the thing itself is no longer Bad - it is Good. The comment above was ironic. I have to specify because supposedly intelligent people really think that way: https://x.com/garrytan/status/1963310592615485955

Taking away people's guns is unamerican, unless you're taking them away from someone I consider to be unamerican, like an immigrant or a liberal; in that case, it's for the good of America that we take away their guns, and the people who wrote the constitution never intended for it to apply to all people the way it says, but only white people and non-white people those white people find to be convenient allies for th…

California made open carry illegal when the Black Panthers started doing legal street marches with big guns strapped to their backs. It seems one of the best ways to make the right wing do something you want is to expose them to their own policies.

In Florida, a surgeon refused to administer anesthetic to Republicans under the law intended to made it legal to deny abortions, since it said it was legal for any medical professional to deny any healthcare on religious or moral grounds. Not really — unfortunately that was a hoax screenshot, photoshopped. But it would make them repeal that law post–haste.

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Post by direwolf20 »

UltraSane wrote: post #908
urmackchually2 wrote: post #903

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In response to Vietnam invading Cambodia... Yeah... That's not exactly imperialist aggression is it?

Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 primarily to stop relentless border incursions, attacks on villages, and massacres of Vietnamese civilians by the Khmer Rouge regime. This led to the end of Khmer Rouge, which was a VERY GOOD THING. China was HELPING the Khmer Rouge, so yes, it actually was rather "imperialist aggressiony". I haven't encountered a Khmer Rouge apologist in a long time.

Interestingly the same excuse Russia used for invading Donetsk and Lunhansk

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Post by direwolf20 »

tw1984 wrote: post #883
rluna828 wrote: post #691

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What China did to the Han Chinese makes them worse than ANY other modern country. The great leap forward and the cultural revolution have not comparison. Add in the chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959 and 1979 invasion of Vietnam and they are butchers and imperialists.

> The great leap forward You need far better propaganda materials for your "great leap forward" blames in 2026. There were bad policies, but the intention good, it was all about moving the country forward. It failed horribly with huge consequences, that is just the reminder that a full scale industrialisation for over 1 billion people is not something that can be earned easily. Like it or not, the "Exceeding the UK,…

Intention doesn't matter

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Post by mrexcess »

pixl97 wrote: post #638
mrexcess wrote: post #394

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>It isn't so much as the rest of the world having easy access. It is what the Chinese want the rest of the world to see. If your prosperity depends on using technocracy to deny 1.3 billion people the ability to communicate and share ideas with your citizens, a few things are true: 1) You have created a digital iron curtain 2) You are doomed because information wants to be free 3) If you succeed the result will be war…

2) Why? I think some people live in movies where the bad guy always loses. Reality doesn't work this way. Bad situations where information is denied from people can last lifetimes. With modern technology we may be creating systems that end up imprisoning our minds for generations with no escape because you'll be killed the moment your technological monitor realizes you're going to fight back.

"Information wanting to be free" is a concept less rooted in idealism and more in a cynical view of human nature. Even the most closely guarded secrets eventually leak, and as the utility of knowing the secrets increases, the pressure to leak also does. The physical universe itself appears to favor disclosure and abhor secrecy.

>With modern technology we may be creating systems that end up imprisoning our minds for generations with no escape

That has been the goal of authoritarians for a long time. Orwell's vision of it involved obliterating even the capacity to think or speak about anti-state themes.

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Post by lyu07282 »

infecto wrote: post #125
dmit wrote: post #108

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People jump to the conclusion because a lot of the time they've had this exact argument already, and they know how it tends to end. Proclaiming oneself a centrist might seem like a noble, moderate position. But in 2026, with the Overton window basically being shifted outside the frame?

What argument are we having? I see someone struggling to hold their own words steady, and you claiming that I am proclaiming something when I only mentioned it because of this exact problem. I do not really think of myself as left or right within the current American political system. I do not follow either political party, and my opinions often zig zag across existing party lines. If anything, maybe “centrist” is th…

> The point still stands brigading is a massive problem in America.

So why is it that self proclaimed centrists consistently talk in right-wing talking points? That's my entire point, you talk in cancel culture/culture war talking points as if those are real issues and even the single most pertinent issues in America. Even though in reality they are purely artificial constructions of right-wing propaganda, spread by Fox News, Heritage Foundation and other right-wing think-tanks and media figures. When I hear those mirrored back to me by someone who claims to be a centrist, I can't contain my frustration.

It's like this political illiteracy that gets on my nerves, it's people fed propaganda they internalized as some political congruent position that reads to me as completely incomprehensible gibberish. It's like a proto-fascist is in power that is rounding people up and putting them in concentration camps and you are undecided IDEOLOGICALLY, I'm sorry but that's just lack of very basic political education and being a severe victim of neoliberal depoliticization. Read a book.

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