Trump’s accepting of funding from a donor with deep financial ties to the CCP implies that Trump and the Republican Party are the same as Biden and the Democrats. Both candidates and parties are so ruled by the donor class that they feel free to arrogantly display that they lack a modicum of concern for the country or its citizens.
We have become a nation of sheeple. We are so inured and so docile as to allow .gov to impose upon us any mandate. The plannedemic was a test. The .gov has confirmed we will comply. The CCP owns the uniparty and the uniparty owns us. After all they say you can't fight city hall and the marionette in chief has warned you you'll need an F-15 to fight him, man.
The notion that banning TikTok will result in a mass migration back to Facebook or some other legacy platform shows how out of touch our "leaders" are with both technology and the generation that uses TikTok.
Only in America are people so selfish as to allow a known enemy, with known bad intentions and known actions be allowed such freedom. I posit that the first amendment is for the citizens of this country. China is not a citizen. Why do they need to hold on to it so badly? It was alright to break up the Mama Bell system.
In the novel Infinite Jest, an oddball filmaker (think Lynch on steriods) made a film so entertaining that the viewer loses all will to live. They will stare rapturously at the movie on repeat until death, and if the film is turned off they will go completely insane. Only a small number of copies of the film exist, and a group of Quebecois radicals (long story) search for them to unleash on the American public.
The first time I read Infinite Jest 13 years ago I thought it was a wildly entertaining idea for a fantastical alternate reality. I'm re-reading it now as non-fiction.
If TikTok wasn't there, it would be Vine, or YouTube Shorts, or Twitter videos, or Instagrams, or one of a dozen other platforms. It's hard to know if they'd be better or worse than TikTok. I think people are overly focused on possible CCP machinations. If Google were in charge, who's to say their machinations wouldn't be more sinister? Considering what we've seen out of Gemini AI, I'm not convinced China is *actually* more damaging to American youth than a group of woke Silicon Valley execs could be.
TikTok is digital opium. The CCP is avenging the opium war of the 1800s by rotting American kids brains and killing 100,000+ Americans every year with fentanyl. They don’t allow any american tech companies to operate in China and their version of TikTok provides their kids with educational enrichment.
The real story is who the Feds have lined up to buy TikTok. Since losing control of Twitter they need another effective persuasion platform to turn public attention/opinion to whatever is the order of day (elections or otherwise). In the meantime, yeah keep bringing the dopamine hits to users and keep us distracted. What will be interesting to watch is whether ByteDance will sell the algorithm to new US-interest entity, and for how much. The algorithm is the $ valuable part of all this.
Trump’s accepting of funding from a donor with deep financial ties to the CCP implies that Trump and the Republican Party are the same as Biden and the Democrats. Both candidates and parties are so ruled by the donor class that they feel free to arrogantly display that they lack a modicum of concern for the country or its citizens.
We have become a nation of sheeple. We are so inured and so docile as to allow .gov to impose upon us any mandate. The plannedemic was a test. The .gov has confirmed we will comply. The CCP owns the uniparty and the uniparty owns us. After all they say you can't fight city hall and the marionette in chief has warned you you'll need an F-15 to fight him, man.
TikTok is a symptom.
Is this the same srticle that was on this site earlier today? It seemed there were more comments earlier?
different article, sorry
different article, sorry
The notion that banning TikTok will result in a mass migration back to Facebook or some other legacy platform shows how out of touch our "leaders" are with both technology and the generation that uses TikTok.
Only in America are people so selfish as to allow a known enemy, with known bad intentions and known actions be allowed such freedom. I posit that the first amendment is for the citizens of this country. China is not a citizen. Why do they need to hold on to it so badly? It was alright to break up the Mama Bell system.
In the novel Infinite Jest, an oddball filmaker (think Lynch on steriods) made a film so entertaining that the viewer loses all will to live. They will stare rapturously at the movie on repeat until death, and if the film is turned off they will go completely insane. Only a small number of copies of the film exist, and a group of Quebecois radicals (long story) search for them to unleash on the American public.
The first time I read Infinite Jest 13 years ago I thought it was a wildly entertaining idea for a fantastical alternate reality. I'm re-reading it now as non-fiction.
If TikTok wasn't there, it would be Vine, or YouTube Shorts, or Twitter videos, or Instagrams, or one of a dozen other platforms. It's hard to know if they'd be better or worse than TikTok. I think people are overly focused on possible CCP machinations. If Google were in charge, who's to say their machinations wouldn't be more sinister? Considering what we've seen out of Gemini AI, I'm not convinced China is *actually* more damaging to American youth than a group of woke Silicon Valley execs could be.
Why not rename this article with a more fitting title:
"Meet all the people who are allowing America's kids to be entrapped by a foreign entity"
Then you could have a picture of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party machine as part of the caption!
There's a fucking suggestion for you!
TikTok is digital opium. The CCP is avenging the opium war of the 1800s by rotting American kids brains and killing 100,000+ Americans every year with fentanyl. They don’t allow any american tech companies to operate in China and their version of TikTok provides their kids with educational enrichment.
Congress must neutralize this modern weapon of mass destruction: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/ccp-opium-war-tiktok-fentanyl
The real story is who the Feds have lined up to buy TikTok. Since losing control of Twitter they need another effective persuasion platform to turn public attention/opinion to whatever is the order of day (elections or otherwise). In the meantime, yeah keep bringing the dopamine hits to users and keep us distracted. What will be interesting to watch is whether ByteDance will sell the algorithm to new US-interest entity, and for how much. The algorithm is the $ valuable part of all this.