The House on Wednesday passed a bill with broad bipartisan support that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner to either sell the hugely popular video app or be banned in the United States.
Republican leaders fast-tracked the bill through the House with limited debate, and it passed on a lopsided vote of 352-65, reflecting widespread backing for legislation that would take direct aim at China in an election year.
I clearly responded to your full comment because I said I was with you until the conspiracy nonsense. The point of (paraphrased) “They won’t help kids, but they’ll sure shut down an app that allows us to talk to each other about how bad they are!” is clearly the intent of this legislation is not to protect, but oppress. But it doesn’t make sense considering all of the other ways we have to communicate where I see people complaining about how things are.
TLDR: You should be upset these fucks are spending our tax money on banning an app, instead of using our tax money on more important shit like people living in the streets, kids going hungry in schools, kids being sent to work at the age of 12+, and medical debt being an inch away from us all. You should all be as upset as I am. The fact you aren’t, is very very concerning.
I truly do not care about the app that much.
You’re right. It is one of the many forms we have to communicate with each other.
My main comment point was that they are banning some silly little app instead of addressing way more important things.
It’s insane that they are banding together for the first time in years (besides when they want to increase their paychecks!) where there unanimous backing from both sides.
That’s all my comment was trying to get across.
You have people cheering that these fucks have banded together to get an app banned, but they can’t even agree to feed children.
“Yeah! I HATE TikTok, this is GOOD news!” But refuse to look at ALL the other issues going on that should definitely be a way higher priority than some stupid app.
That’s the main point. There’s no hidden conspiracy to find. It’s the fact we care so much about banning an app, but not about more important shit like feeding our fellow citizens and making sure our children are cared for properly.
Insane. It’s just insane to me we’re fine with our government spending our taxes and shit on this.
Then you shouldn’t have included it as part of your post because it undercuts and detracts from your actual point.
But, yes, I wish we would do more important things, but there seems to be good reason to ban this app, it’s no real loss if it disappears, and Republicans are not going to want to help children, so I don’t see what the point is in getting so upset over this.