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I'm sorry the foreign adversary that controls a popular social media app isn't white.
I don't have any foreign adversaries
Shouldn't you be busy haranguing people into voting for the guy running guns to an apartheid state that is in the middle of an ethnic cleansing?
Eh, that's one of those things that's going to happen regardless of which candidate wins. Israel is basically our only consistent ally in the Middle East, so we're going to play nice with them regardless of who wins.
There's a difference between continuing the status quo, and what Biden is currently doing, even fucking Reagan once told Israel to back down. Pretty ambivalent response about your guy subverting congress to help in an ethnic cleansing.
Joe Biden is literally to the right of most everyone in the US vis a vis Israel, so there's a non zero chance he is genuinely worse than Trump.
Also, he doesn't HAVE to be doing this. You get that, right? Many voters are telling him to stop, some of the legislators in his own party are telling him to stop. He could end this with a phone call tonight. That he does not, and that his opponent would likely continue this, is not 'a wash', it is damning.
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LOL. "russia was correct in banning facebook and twitter". Feel better now?
They could justify that policy the same way - we are a foreign adversary of them and having our companies control their social media could lead to the same sort of problem for them, even if our government doesn't have it's fingers dug into our companies in quite the same way as the CCP does with Chinese companies.
If they're going to do this TikTok ban bill, they should cast the net a bit wider - it's be nice if it hits Tencent by accident.
you’re consistent, a rare sight.
And us government absolutely does have its fingers up to facebook and twitter asshole.
It’s fascinating to see how freedom of commerce (when you can’t compete) goes out of a window and libs all just fall in line. Tiktok USA already was populated by usa natsec and it people, so it’s just forcing to sell profitable business cause you need them monies and future control
Do you work for the NSA or something? The US government doesn't even hide the fact that that's the case.
Read the rest of that sentence. The difference between how the US and CCP have their hands in private companies is like the difference between fingering and fisting.
I was not aware we were at war with China.
We're not at war with them, but they are certainly a foreign adversary. Much like Russia in that regard, we haven't been at war with Russia since we tried to support anti-Bolsheviks back in 1918 but they are definitely a foreign adversary or else that whole Cold War thing was really weird.
So you agree? The reason for this ban is not public good, but merely to protect imperialist interests
I agree. The entire world should nationalize all American owned assets due to ongoing CIA bullshit. I'm sorry that the national foreign adversary is the US.
You should be, you monster
There is quite literally nothing China could do, even in your wildest fantasies about how nefarious they are, to affect your life in any way using TikTok algorithm data
You're simply just engaging in McCarthyist paranoia