• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s \s \s

    People are in such a rush to confirm their own biases that they’ll upvote a wacky study from the UAE based on 3 states and AI judges.

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    1 day ago

    Ditch the app. It’s showing all the signs of turning into a right-wing racist cesspool like so many other social media apps before it.

    There are other options.

    Ditch the app.

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      I’m fairly certain that TikTok plays an instrumental role in the whole brainwashing machinery. The content renders its users incapable of dealing with content that takes longer than 20s to consume. Fact checking however, requires a lot more effort. I just had a fight with my brother. He once was a man that read a shit ton of books and had the patience to sit through epic movies and was culturally adequately informed. Now his 56 year old ass sits on the couch, swiping through one TikTok video after the other and blindly repeats all the “felt truths”. When confronted with evidence showing the contrary, he simply rejects those sources as left propaganda. He doesn’t even put in an ounce of effort. The man is totally lost and I’m fucking sad as hell about it. He’s pretty much the only family I have, other than my wife and daughter. This is in Germany by the way. We’re not too far away from the situation in the US.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
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    Duh, of course CCP, wants mango moron as Prez. He’s a spineless POS that is all lies and no action.

    CCP will feel free to run over Taiwan and the islands they want to take from Japan.

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      6 hours ago

      The resposes here are amazing. It’s stunning how quickly the memoryholing is kicking in.

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        sorry in advance for the strays you’ll catch for saying as much… yeah, its heavily brigaded/astroturfed just about everywhere you go, nowadays. we’re to believe this is the common sentiment because by god, look at how many downvotes they can muster… i’m ambivalent, the truth isn’t something they can bully out of my hands

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          Oh, that’s as expected. What’s interesting, though, is the same exact argument pattern to other recent debacles. Like, “How dare TikTok/Progressives/Arabs side against us? Could it be they resent that we openly despise them and very recently fucked them over? No, that never happened, also Trump did it too! The only possible explanation for their hostility is that they’re ontologically evil, and we therefore have no choice but to continue openly despising them and trying to fuck them over!” Like, if this were a book, it would be panned for it’s heavy-handed hubris allegory.

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            i can still allow for them to be misinformed and or differently oriented- so not necessarily evil. as for fucking them over, i don’t care so much about that directly- i have more modest ambitions. i want people to see how often there’s a great big elephant in the room that you’re really ‘not supposed to’ talk about. eating 20 downvotes for an innocuous comment is revelatory

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        1 day ago

        “On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down.”

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            1 day ago

            did biden have to sign?? can you at least admit it was bipartisan or does that shake you to your tribalist core?

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              Fuck, can you? Yeah I know biden signed it, I was just showing you that you were wrong about it being the dems lol. Tribalist core? Lol

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                  You mean the poster for the article that says there is a gop bias? Or me for calling you out for saying “democrats”?

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        “On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down.”

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      Your grasp of recent history is mind boggling stupid to have ignored what happened, literally 5 years ago when trump and the GOP created the law and EO to shut down TikTok.

      As a troll, you’re not even remotely believable. Go back to your cave, and try again.

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        “On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down.”