Isn’t the primary critique of TikTok the number of American leftists and progressives posting on it?
Seems like the propaganda is coming from inside the house.
I don’t understand why people have the tendency to interfere with others lives
Codifying cultural norms into law is a normal part of politics. The big question is what you want to normalize.
bashing on Harris and pushing false equivalence
You claim the Ds and Rs are the same, but you can very clearly see that the Ds are in favor of 10% less infanticide.
That’s the only two choices we have
The genocidiers have us by the balls, folks. Nothing you can do but voice your full throated support for one of them.
UN votes against Israel’s occupation of Palestine: Will it change anything?
Seems like the rest of the international community is moving on this whether or not the US leadership approves of it.
Barking up the “Who will you vote for?” tree, when neither American candidate for President has expressed an interest in ending the holocaust in Gaza or prosecuting the litany of war crimes in surrounding Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan, seems pointless.
If anything “Vote for Kamala because hey remember that genocide we’re financing via Israel?” seems like its going to scare away more voters than it attracts.
“deregulating insurance markets, so that people can actually choose a plan that makes sense for them.”
The problem with the modern insurance market is Not Enough Crypto.
Oh shit, he’s good. He DDOS’d me right back.
People who are Nazis would say exactly this about the “Woke” Society.
It reminds me of the left/right split during the Iranian Revolution. Folks love to post pictures of “Before 1979” with the wealthy kids of the industrial elites dressed like EU/US fashionistas. Iranian progressives saw this as a privilege of the elites that shouldn’t be exclusive to the upper end of society. Iranian conservatives saw it as a symptom of elitism that shouldn’t be permitted at any tier of society.
After the revolution, conservative Iranians (very briefly) aligned with conservative Americans, as the Ayatollah and the Reagan/Thatcher governments aligned on this idea of regressive religious anti-Communism. But then Iran didn’t open itself back up as a western gas station, so the American white supremacists and the Iranian Islamic supremacists fell back into conflict again.
Then it was just two ultra-orthodox conservative groups screaming “Woke Decadent Radicals!” at one another, while everyone around them were ground to paste by the slew of wars to follow.
It’s a big bureaucracy and procurement often just means going to the private sector and scooping up what’s on sale.
Non-zero chance the Koreans are running around with explosive pagers in their pockets right now.
It’s expensive because it has to go through a dozen layers of private contractors.
The US military was remarkably good at rapidly churning out cheap, effective armorments during the WW and early Cold War era. But the LBJ/Nixon pivot to private industry eroded all the efficiency. Then Reagan kicked military spending into overdrive in the 80s, and it’s been a snowball of waste, fraud, and embezzlement ever since.
Now the model for military procurement is just a jobs program for Congressional districts. The epitome of the Do Nothing profession.
Yes Jeff, I know they are cheap as shit, you cheapskate
Remind me again why you’d want an Apple (made in China) or OnePlus (made in China) or any of the other 70% of all cell phones available in the US? Are you just a big fan of paying extra for the same technology?
Or are you more wedded to phones made in Malaysia, India, or Vietnam for some peculiar reason?
you don’t put the cheapest solution in place
No shortage of high end Huawei models. They’ve been competitive with Samsung for nearly a decade.
Hey, now. They also really hate FDR and LBJ.
So you’re agreeing this is a Bill of Attainder limited to a single group of American citizens?
Thanks.
Where should Israel go back to then?
Israel doesn’t have to go anywhere. No more than South Africa went somewhere after Apartheid ended in that state. Or Cuba vanished after the Batista government collapsed. Or Germany vanished after '45.
But the war criminals leading the current genocidal policy towards the people in their care. They need the same treatment as Milosoviec, Omar al-Bashir, and Saddam Hussein.
Drag Netanyahu to the Hague and prosecute him for crimes against humanity. Dismiss the current illegal and unconstitutional Kinesset and hold new free and fair elections in Israel. Provide reparations for the displaced Gaza and West Bank citizens, and launch a Truth and Reconciliation Committee to recover damages for the crimes committed against them.
That is the only moral path forward for Israel.
Trump was more than happy to sell Ukraine surplus munitions back in 2018, when a diplomatic solution was still possible.
Drenching the conflict with lighter fluid and waiting for someone to light a match.
Turd on turd violence. But it did seem like Kennedy was ready to fix Truman’s mistake in kicking off the Cold War.
And then…
Sadly, I’m an English speaker so I’m very limited in my options.
This is good advice on it’s face, but what if you’re living in a country full of Nazis?
Like, let’s say - hypothetically - the cops are Nazis. And all your mass media is full of Nazi agitprop. And friends and family are periodically repeating Nazis talking points. And you are feeling increasingly isolated by the sheer madness of the outside world.
Hypothetically, of course.
they could’ve easily just targeted specific individuals
They did target a specific individual - the Iranian ambassador in Lebanon. Everyone else was collateral damage.
Bombing a police station because there’s a chance one of the cops might try to arrest me.
Bombing the court house so there’s no place for my trial.
Bombing the mayor’s Special Committee On Investigating City Bombings to cover my trail.
Bombing the local field office of the newspaper that’s writing a report on all these bombings.
More people are saying I’m the bad guy, but this is just adding the number of people I have to add to my list of future bomb targets.
The presumption that social media is an international weapon of war does raise some disturbing questions about the right to free speech.
What specifically are we referring to on TikTok qualifies that can’t be found on a rival platform?