• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Lmao, yes.

    He “brought it back” before he was even in office. And since no one looks up anything, I’m sure it did it’s job.

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      3 months ago

      How do people not see through this theatre? It wasn’t even subtle. Oh right, the brainrot…

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      How so? It was politically convenient to go after TikTok when he did it, and it’s politically convenient to reverse course now. That’s a pretty consistent gameplan from Trump, attack something when it’s popular, reverse when reversing is popular.

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        3 months ago

        When he came with the ban idea he used the same argument of national security that is the hypocritical part. Like you say the real reason is just political convenient

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          3 months ago

          He also claimed national security when he messed with tariffs. At this point, it’s just an excuse to do something to grab headlines.

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        3 months ago

        It is more in line with a puppet, that has zero understanding of anything, being told what to say as it is convenient.

    • jaemo@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Trump’s basically a fractal hypocrisy, which is, as I understand it, why and how the grift keeps grifting.

  • Letme@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sort of, yes. It is a counterintelligence/disinformation app, and for that reason it makes MAGA look good. MAGA now controls all 3 of the top disinformation apps: Twitter, Facebook , and Tiktok. This is the war on truth; facts and honesty lost.

    • peregrin5@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      Not to mention they’ve bought out every previously legitimate news source.

  • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 months ago

    Trump started the whole thing because he was unpopular on Tiktok. Republicans jumped on board because young people were politically organizing on the platform and they don’t like that.

    But up to that point, there was no really effort, even as much as they tried to claim “national security”.

    Then when the real information about Palestine was being spread there the democrats jumped on board because they are the same as republicans when if comes to foreign policy.

    That’s what started the actual push that gained momentum. They had no actual evidence about the stuff they claimed. Also, if the claim applied to Tiktok, it applies to all the other social media. But they don’t actually care about privacy. They only care about a platform that they couldn’t control and wasn’t catering to them.

    If they cared about privacy, they would have pushed general privacy legislation and/or regulation and oversight on all social media.

    The reversal was Biden realizing he does not have a good legacy and with Trump, there was a lot more content this time around that was pro-trump (and also tiktok gave him a million dollars). So now he gets to claim he “saved tiktolk” when he was the start of the whole thing.

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    3 months ago

    All CEOs understood how to behave with such an arrogant person: flatter him and he will bow to your every wims.

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      3 months ago

      Bow even harder and you get pardoned for every crime you did…

      Who came up with this pardon shit anyway?!

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No, this is just what it looks like when evil encoaches. Having no true ethical or moral obligations it decides everything on a case by case basis and if it can’t be controlled then it is destroyed.

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    Given that he was the one that called for it to be banned extremely vocally, and he’s not been able to keep it banned for more than a few hours even as the now leader of that country, seemingly caving under pressure to flip his stance on the matter (showing off the bat that he’s very politically weak)…

    I don’t see how this makes him look anything but weak, or inept.

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      Ahh, but see you’re been following this over several months/years, or looked up what actually happened. You’re not the target for this dupe.

      This tactic works incredibly well as you’ll find you are outside the norm. I still remember people ranting about how Obama was late responding to Hurricane Katrina.

      Welcome to Politics 2.0 where the information is freely available but the facts don’t matter.

    • Spookyghost@sh.itjust.works
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      “Caving under pressure”? This is a massive win for him, he just got every single major corp app out there to agree to push his agenda and thrawrt his opponents. How many posts today have been showing search results in various apps being fucky?

      Bytedance didnt have to block their app yesterday, they did it perfomantly, and virtually everyone bought it hook like and sinker.

      You are dreaming if you think the perception of this event to the average person is the weakness of a certain inflated organge hemmoroid.

      His cohort of billionare buddys now control discussion and content on a hugely concerning portion of all public communication channels that currently exist.

      Humans on average are already disappointingly stupid. Now this administration is actively discoraging free, critical thought and discussion and encouraging the use of algorithmically powered, emotionally draining, knowledge obfuscating, personal data collection software viruses that people willingly install.

      On those apps he and his friends look like amazing heroes, and will for the next 4 years, regardless of the events of reality. Then we will have to vote with millions of people who only use these apps for information. Best of luck to us all.

  • Freefall@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, the super obvious political stunt was a political stunt. It only fools those that don’t pay any attention or don’t know how anything works. Biden said he would not enforce the order, that trump signed during his first term, to ban tiktok. Then tiktok chose to shut itself down for a day and chose to turn itself back on with its political pandering notice. It is all to manipulate it’s users while also paying fealty to the incoming president (because China knows that is how easy he is to control).

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    3 months ago

    Yes.

    Do you know any dopamine addicts who lost their minds for a week straight? You know the ones. Giving more permissions to shady apps to scratch their itch?

    Sad world we live in lolol.

  • Ech@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    The whole thing? No. The 14 hour temper tantrum? Absolutely.