I almost had a vomiting reflex. It is now pretty obvious that the whole thing was intended from the beginning to suck the small trump dick hard.
I never had tiktok and now have a superiority complex.
It was Trump’s efforts that led to it being banned in the first place
Correct, the whole thing was a long con so he could look like the big damn hero
Congrats! I saved you from being punched (by me).
Probably gonna deal two for flinching and everything.
Not really, US propaganda, so much as Trump propaganda.
Just about everything he’s done for the past decade has shown the interests of the two are mutually exclusive.
Trump is now the US President. It is now the case that “flattering the US” means “flattering Trump”. Sucks
Not really, US propaganda, so much as Trump propaganda.
Just a matter of time, when this is basically the same. Depending on your definition, it could already be the same…
Any TikTok user with any sense or self respect would immediately delete the app and abandon the platform
You think too much of the average brainrotter
That’s the neat part
many are and i have great respect for ‘em
That makes no sense on the face of it.
First of all the ban comes from the legislative, who made a law and the judiciary who decided it applied in this case.
Secondly the executive might ignore their duty to enforce rulings for a while, sure, but that’s not a long term solution, and not a big achievement.
Thirdly even Biden’s executive was not enforcing the ban, apparently fearing the optics. Now we have gone from Biden’s executive not enforcing the ban to Trump’s executive not enforcing the ban. So there was no effective change.
Tiktok is just doing some political maneuvers here. They were the ones denying access for the last 24h for the optics. Not out of respect for the court’s decision.
It’s literally just China destablizing the US, same as it’s been for years. It doesn’t have to make sense. Weeee 🙃
China or America just shooting itself in the foot with Trump?
Little of column A, little of column B. China’s going to throw fuel on the already burning fire wherever they can.
spot on
The US didn’t take action to block the app, Tiktok did. Maybe the government would have taken action eventually. It smells like a political plan, where someone at Tiktok agreed to block the app for 24 hours as a political favor.
I’m sure this has no connection with TikTok allegedly sponsoring Trump’s inauguration party…
Hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and they’re already sucking him off for doing nothing.
Jeffrey Yass, one of their larger investors, is an American and has spent millions lobbying to stop this. He is a Trump adjacent billionaire
The real threat isn’t China, it’s dictators from any part of the globe - whether that’s Xi, Putin, or Trump. Or all 3 of them, working together.
This has extreme “future history students will have trouble thinking people took it seriously” vibes.
People don’t recognize history while they are living through it. Right now we are seeing the consolidation of corporate industry with a government led by a cult of personality. One of the “true and classical” definitions of fascism. Yet, people will argue that it’s not actually fascism. No matter how bad it gets, there will always be a large portion of the population who will say its not true fascism because it does not personally affect then in a way they consider fascism. There are plenty of Germans who believed that Nazi Germany did nothing wrong even after having lived through it. That’s they one thing history never taught me, the absolute ignorance and denial of the majority of the population, even after things get incredibly bad and millions die.
Edit: Elon Musk did an unequivocal Nazi salute, twice, during his speech at Trumps inauguration. Just watch, somehow this still does not actually make them fascists
There is no end to the stupidity of the human race.
That quote is framed and hanging on the wall of Rupert Murdock’s office.
buckle up.
also we’re bad at identifying epochs while we’re in them. it’s possible that “these times” are 1980-2030 and Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump and whoevers’ next are considered a single continuum.
If everything goes back on tracks, they will just learn a distilled down version of the current events like I did about nazism, where nazis were just cartoon villains who did evil for the sake of evil, and never tried to justify their heinous actions. Thus they’ll learn that Elon Musk was at worst mixed with way too many good ideas to completely discount him, no mention of the christian fascists, and all the anti-trans thing will either forgotten, or will just told as “was done for the sake of evil”.
I’m hearing a future conversation:
"So I’m supposed to believe this guy was a young rich internet genius who was already beyond set for life financially, then he risked it all to start (it definitely wasn’t other people for any of these) the impossible electric car revolution, the low cost space industry, global satellite mesh internet, and mind control, right? He was famous enough as “rich smart businessman” that he became a cultural figure. He hosted Saturday Night Live and people said he was the real life Tony Stark while he left a trail of oddly named children in his wake…
And then this deus ex machina of a human just starts flinging shit, calling people pedophiles, being a right wing dictator’s cheerleader, destroying his underlying smart utopian nerd cred, using his “business leadership” to get into the right wing propaganda machine industry, and etches his legacy into stone as a hated incel Lex Luthor figure rather than a hot quirky Tonk Stark.
And it was only at this point that the world’s first trillionaire’s undoing was being double crossed by the dumbest politician to ever walk the earth? Yeah ok. Look, I get that after The New Dawn (blessed be the lost) things were bleak and a little copium could go a long way. But this is a fairytale for children.
To think that He Who Must Not Be Trusted had the public believing in his intellect at ANY point, and then that He Who Must Not Be Named actually pulled the wool over those infected red glowing terminator eyes… Hah! Next you’re going to tell me the sky is blue again!"
ATTENTION HISTORY PROFESSORS!
ATTENTION WAR OF 20XX JUNKIES!
ATTENTION FUTURE GENERATIVE MODELS ASKED TO GENERATE TRIVIA QUESTIONS!
It’s really this dumb. Half the people around us voted to put history’s most embarrassing cartoon villains in charge of history’s most deadly military. AGAIN. I’m sorry the Lemmy archives aren’t super useful to your research at the Never Again Institute, since we’re always like “existential dread and Linux, am I right?” (I use mint btw)
If you had a time portal to ask us any questions about the political climate on what I assume is called “bad black monday,” our answers would be that we have no idea. I assume the archive you need to dig through is called “TruthbooX” or something like that, and that it’s a heinous goldmine.
It was so odd that they didnt mention him in their goodbye as he was the one who started that train a rolling
Also odd that they self banned, Biden explicitly said he wasn’t bothering to enforce.
So TikTok blocked themselves just to suck up to Trump.
they did mention him :/
this was the first message that came before the one in OP
OP meant that it’s odd they didn’t blame him for being the reason that a law banning the app was even considered, since he started that train rolling while he was in office.
nah i get it i was just adding more sad snark. thanx for adding clarity tho :3
They’re now also censoring pro-Palestine content.
Oh gee. Why would they ever do that?! Tik tok promised me free speech!
If you think it’s bad now, look again in 4 years.
I’m particularly looking forward to “No no no no” playing over the top of a video of an ICE raid goon smashing a mother of three in the face with the butt of his rifle for trying to protect her kids, while that horrid robotic woman’s voice says “get out of America bitch”.
While usually i would say that you are completely insane if you write something so deranged, in this case you basically wrote down something that probably happened and will happen multiple other times. The tone is completely justified as well
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This is so transparent… Trump isn’t even president yet, there’s nothing he could have done… The whole shut down and return is a stunt to make Trump look like a hero
Yes, the shutdown was a stunt.
Glad everyone is pointing out how much this reeks of propaganda.
keep repeating it and don’t stop. im already seeing tiktok users saying they aren’t coming back. and i think that’s a good response.
new tic tok challenge dropped, delete tic tok (impossible)
can’t delete what you never had in the first place.
I’m on the other Bandwagon … sorry to be pedantic, but this is not American propaganda, this is Trump self-aggrandizement, or maybe fluffing his ego to kanipulate him. It’s an important distinction with the type of “leadership” my fellow citizens voted for
I guess we can’t even blame them. The app got to thwart the ban by appealing to Trump; gotta keep those wheels greased.
You show see the feed on TikTok now… Half of it is just pure CCP propaganda, showcasing how “glorious China is”.
If you think this propaganda is bad, you should’ve seen the endless and ongoing propaganda that led up to the TikTok ban.
Everyone is saying this is propaganda. I think its possible there’s an even stupider reason.
Trump is so nakedly easy to manipulate sometimes. This might be the ego fluffing he needs to reverse the ban.
He’d basically do anything you want if you put a nickel in his pocket. He’s for sale.
Putin was ready to speak to Manly Trump a couple of months ago. Not so far fetched. Can’t believe we are at this point.
