“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution”
An absolutely horrid comment.
“Pay me” “okay” that’s how it will go down
It also shows how the US is split and they love it.
Any bets on the bribe amount? I’m sure some place is taking bets. Vegas will bet on anything.
I mean… That just proves my point.
The feds told them to stop, but they were taking bets on it.
It’s political genius. How many millions of Americans are going to see that? Politically apathetic Americans who will credit Trump…
Yeah I hate that fucker, but wow did they find out how to win the youth vote.
It’s red for the next 50 years.
“A ‘final’ one, as he calls it.”
I’ve been posting this for a week now - This is all theater.
trump is going to “save” tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.
It’s the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. “Wow, I owe you my life!”
And now, this adds two layers:
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You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.
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trump gets to look “stronger” than the “highest court in the land” to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.
P.s. The Chinese “protest” apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.
This is 100% of correct line of thought. The ban doesn’t start tomorrow. So how did it start today? The biden Administration said it was not going to enforce the ban. So how is it being enforced? The most simple and obvious answer is that tiktok is doing this to themselves. Colluding with an enemy fascist. Who is an enemy of a greater enemy and thus useful to them in dismantling the enemy state.
Oh yeah. Save TikTok, win the youth vote. Honestly it’s genius. And that’s scary.
See, the problem with this line of thinking is that it took thought, and reasoning and intelligence. You are supposed to just listen to what the teevee and the real important people, the influencers, tell you. That’s the only way to get to the real truthiness of these situations.
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If anyone sees others on social media giving Trump even a modicum of credit for this, please just link them to this. This is all such nonsense.
I hate it here.
Lol I honestly don’t know if you mean “here” in the US, here on this planet, or here on lemmy because your favorite app stopped working 😆
The real problem is It really extends to a much larger issue than just an app no longer working :/
The whole TikTok thing is a complete shitshow from start to finish. The whole effort to ban TikTok started because bunch of kids organized and trolled Trump by mass signups to his rally creating whole lot of empty seats. Democrats went along with TikTok ban because they thought they can use the guise of protecting American citizens’ privacy and national security as means to score cheap political points. Neither political parties actually care about citizen’s privacy because if they did they would have passed a comprehensive data privacy law that covers every social media platforms long time ago.
Apparently some Trump aid has advised him that he can look like a hero by rescuing TikTok and win the hearts and minds of the youth. Do I think Trump cares about free speech or welfare of people who make a living off of the platform? Hell no. It’s all political theater.
From looking at how TikTok is behaving as the deadline loom ever closer, it’s very suspect. If they are actually motivated by profit then one would think they’d be scrambling to find a buyer but they seem completely disinterested in that. It does appear their motives aren’t about money but elsewhere. And then all of a sudden there is an exodus to a Xiaohongshu (RedNote or Little Red Book) app which is heavily censored Chinese lifestyle propaganda platform. Maybe I’m being cynical but this feels a bit “influenced”.
When all is said and done I think TikTok is just fishy as hell. Also what I can take away from all this is at least some of the users of TikTok are absolute morons that are easily swayed by misinformation and propaganda.
Marvel snap is also offline in the US 😓. A product funded by bytedance.
What’s that?
