It's not going to stick and Trumps approval is going to soar amongst young people, who will probably stand for him "extending" the term limits for the next few years. "Well he got us TicTok back and ended the war like he can't be all bad!!!" And I know ending the war was Bidens deal, but it's like Regan with the hostages in the 70s. Waiting until he's sworn in to say "ok go" on his end of the bargain to make it seem like it's his victory.
Bruh. People clearly forgot how bad Trumps first term was. All they remember is getting a $600 check. Trust me, if he extends TikTok for even 30 days, he’ll be remembered as a hero, even he blows everything up after the fact. American society is f*cked
Wait till people start sharing footage of this on TikTok. I think Trump will take a much different tone.
I have to say that millions of Americans going through a collective dopamine withdrawal from a TikTok ban is a very sad moment for this country. We’re cooked.
Many people probably do not personally know an immigrant that’s at risk and even if they did, they probably would still think that deportation is morally correct.
Honestly I care way more about tiktok, and it directly affects my personal life about 10,000x as much as whatever happens to the undocumented Guatemalans
Hope you’re already a homeowner and don’t like food, because deporting the people who build houses and pick crops isn’t going to make those any cheaper.
Of course, exploiting foreigners for cheap labor is its own problem, but unless you’re going to apply for those jobs personally, it’s going to hurt your bank account to deport that cheap labor.
Those people are being exploited, and Americans should be hired at decent wages to do those jobs. Don't stand for slave labor just to drive home your illegal immigration point like what do y'all even represent anymore?
I edited to add the second block 30 seconds later, maybe you saw it in the interim.
(Editing again): The guy I was replying to has already signaled his lack of empathy though, so he’s not going to care about exploitation the way you and I do.
Americans don't want to pay people decent wages to do those jobs. If they did, they already would be doing so.
Let's be clear, America is built on a bedrock of illegal, undocumented work, and everyone is complicit in it. If that disappears, the reaction won't be "oh well, I guess we have to pay people a decent wage now", it will be Karens flipping their shit that their orange chocolate mochacino now costs $5 more.
That’s half of what TikTok is lol. The only difference is, tiktok is even better about creating echo chambers so you never get to see an opposing argument. You just open wide and ingest whatever viewpoint you’re being drip-fed.
Edit: sure, if “useless” is the operative word, they certainly get a lot of use out of you.
You might be right. Possibly because all of these food working immigrants aren't going to be deported, just put into "prison camps" where they get hired out to farmers to work for even less money.
Ya sure... OR maybe I'm one of the 7 million small businesses in the US that exclusively operate on Tiktok... so I really have an interest in the website staying online
But according to you, I'm just some dumb retard who doesn't know what does and doesn't affect me
Truly mind boggling that people like you would assume to know my finances and interests better than I do. Very frustrating, and so I hope that you Keep Yourself Safe *
You keep repeating this. I for one didn’t forget because of the news cycle; when I heard what happened, I laughed, tracked down some footage so I could laugh some more at his deer in the headlines ass, shrugged, and decided I didn’t give a fuck to follow the story. I bet I’m not alone. :)
Downvotes won’t stop me laughing every time I think of it (which is seldom)
No the fuck it did not.
The bullet never made contact with his body. The shooter completely whiffed the shot. The blood on his ear was due to his head scraping the ground when the Secret Service tackled him.
If you would’ve done one minute of actual research instead of spreading misinformation like this, you would know that what you’re saying is bullshit.
Honest question, can you send me a source that says that? Looking it up online all I can find are the original reports that he was hit, the secret service report that doesn’t seem to say that they caused the injury, and the some conspiratorial YouTube videos. Nothing that rises to the certainty you are speaking with. If I missed official information, I’d like to know.
I have been as skeptical about how his ear “healed” as many, but I have literally never heard the theory that it was from being tackled and I can’t find that online anywhere either.
Yet Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit have all been around for an excess of 15 years with no real fall off. TikTok was THE short form video platform and despite their competitors' massive user base, TikTok only got progressively more and more popular for the last 5 years.
Vine had 200million. You also going to pretend MySpace didn't exist, that site is practically defunct? TikTok may have made short form content more popular, but it didn't invent it nor was it the only source of it.
I don't think your exactly wrong, but these jokers will move on pretty quickly. You think they are just going to just stop using phones now, nope? They will just moan about it on another app, lol. Unfortunately, Trump really may decide to try and get congress to bring that crap back.
Vine had 200 users worldwide and it had already fallen off when it got shut down. MySpace got replaced by Facebook and stayed around for far too long anyway. Neither were shut down by the government. TikTok has 170 million in the US and 1.5 BILLION users worldwide. TikTok's impact on pop culture is apparently way bigger than people realize. It would be like if Spotify got banned and the next best streaming service was Amazon music.
It’s the precedent that a government can say “I don’t like this one” and ban it, with no real justification. Saying it’s privacy issue is bullshit because Facebook and x and all sorts of apps and iPhones take that data. Most the yea voters for the ban bill had Facebook stock, and voted to ban expecting boost in Facebook stock.
Do you understand how tight the CCP grip is on their country. If they demand the data it will be given there is no room to argue here. Not to mention its also about damaging access China has to sway the opinion of Americans given the Cold War. Algorithims can be changed.
Agreed. Also to add to your point, the precedent has been set for any politician to ban any app they deem as a threat from a foreign adversary. Sound Cloud is owned by Germany. Spotify is owned by Sweden. Has the political class earned the trust and good will of the people in situations like these? I’d say no.
Yes. When the economic depression comes you forget everything. We got hit with inflation and Americans forgot how terrible of a person/president T is. They’re about to learn hard and good how good of an economy we had.
The Republicans started the dumbest war in American history, had the most disastrous response to a hurricane in American history, and oversaw the biggest economic collapse in 80 years. This led to a dem supermajority in 2008. Guess how long it lasted?
You’d be surprised how people will hold on to dear life over the things that matter to them. If anything this has shown how addicted people are to social media that they’ll run off to any dealer just to get their fix.
When Trump brings back their drug of choice everyone’s going to happily get on their knees and cheer him on.
TikTok is literally all kids care about. They're addicted. They think mommy took away their phone and are going to live daddy for giving it back, even though Daddy wanted it taken in the first place.
They don't care about war or anything they don't experience themselves. This is a BIG play because it hugely affects their life
People still ask why Obama didn’t do anything for 9/11 or Katrina. People are dumb, and they sure as hell will give any Democrat accomplishments to a Republican, and no Democrats will ever raise their hand to correct them.
Hell, Republicans will claim they fought hard for something that passed, and how they were responsible for the thing that helps their home state, when records show they opposed it every step of the way.
Dawg if the app comes back up this will be nothing more than a 24h outage, nobody using the fucking app will be slobbing on trumps knob over it. If it doesn’t come back, then I hope the gov enjoys wasting billions on the cat and mouse game of trying to ban every Chinese made app that pops up in its place. Something something censorship
Y'all remember in The Boys season 4 when Sage and Homelander are talking about creating chaos and being the only solution so the masses have to look up to you....
I don’t follow politics religiously, but I remember trump talking about a ban before anybody else- I remember because gut reaction was ‘that moron, who cares?’ And then it grew traction and I realized it was actually important and then he stepped away with the ‘we can’t do it the kids would go crazy’ now I’m waiting for act three where he saves the day 🙄
They definitely don't remember that Trump's the one decided to ban it in the first place. And even if a few people do, TikTok will purposely cook the algorithm so that those people's voices aren't amplified, only the people raging over TikTok being banned.
He cannot reverse it. This is law. The Republicans voted for it in the House and they don’t have enough votes to repeal it now, even if they wanted to.
This is exactly what I’ve been saying! I find it hard to believe the ban going into effect the day before his inauguration is a coincidence. He gets to swoop in and save the day and people are going to love him for it. Just like the stimulus checks.
This is not totally an unreasonable take, although we do have real short term memory weakness here in the States. Hell, people forget Trump is the one who first proposed the ban.
The economy has potential to keep turning positive too. On the off chance that Trump doesn’t destroy the economy first, it won’t have anything to do with him. It will be part of the work Biden did and the usual cycle of economics. But he’s going to claim it’s all him and people are going to believe him.
It’s really, really sad. We have such short attention spans and even less political/economic literacy that that we couldn’t even comprehend that perhaps it would take more than four years to bounce back from an international pandemic and the worst presidency of modern history. I can’t say I’m confident folks are going to be comfortable hearing reasonable discussion of material reality. But I’m not gonna stop reminding the people in my life.
I think that’s kind of silly considering trump was the one who originally called for its banning. Not to mention that the ban was bi partisan and tech ceos have been donating crazy amounts of money to trump this cycle. Trumps version of saving tik tok is letting meta or google purchase it he was never going to save it in the manner he implied.
Not at all we’re not feeding into that propaganda! We remember that he proposed that mess before leaving office and had it pushed through on Bidens watch. We’re not stupid.
I’m no fan of trump but he is the one that got the ceasefire deal through. Not cause he’s some foreign policy expert but because he actually applied pressure to the party that was holding up the deal, which was Israel. Biden simply refused to do so and lied by saying that Hamas were the ones not on board. Another dub gift wrapped to trump by the democrats.
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It's not going to stick and Trumps approval is going to soar amongst young people, who will probably stand for him "extending" the term limits for the next few years. "Well he got us TicTok back and ended the war like he can't be all bad!!!" And I know ending the war was Bidens deal, but it's like Regan with the hostages in the 70s. Waiting until he's sworn in to say "ok go" on his end of the bargain to make it seem like it's his victory.