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    Didn’t expect that Chinese TikTok was more democratic than American TikTok. This was unexpected plot twist.

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      Would Chinese TikTok allow anti-CCP content? I genuinely asking. If it does then yes, we can say it’s more democratic. If you mean that the “Chinese” TikTok allows anti-ICE and anti-MAGA/Trump content then this is just a foreign country that has nothing to loose from this, which is not necessarily “democratic”, it’s just that they probably have something to gain from it.

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    Israel fanatic Larry Ellison took control of TikTok to ensure no one can say anything bad about the genocidal colony or it’s neocon agents in the American regime

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    This and zionism were the whole point of the attack on TikTok that the libs fully supported.

    Now the libs want to attack “social media” in general.

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    Once Trump gets involved in something you know that eventually we’re going to find out it’s even more nefarious bullshit. We must clean and disinfect the huge stain left after he enters the clearing at the end of his path.

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    Epstein files

    Trump is a pedophile

    Trump and Epstein were best friends after Epstein opened the island

    Trump was convicted of raping someone in civil court

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      The media actively whitewashes all of this. What other convicted felon (rapist) would get a pass like this?

      It’s absolutely “hilarious” when NPR calls him “President Trump” and not “convicted felon Trump” or “rapist Trump”. NPR is supposedly some liberal bastion of honesty, etc. But they’re absolute bootlicking enablers.

      Liberalism <—> Fascism.

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        Take a look at the public NPR board at the bottom. I just clicked one executive and here is a paragraph on her:

        Most recently, Levene was President of the National Media Group at Meredith Corporation, where she oversaw the company’s 40+ iconic brands including PEOPLE, Allrecipes, Entertainment Weekly, InStyle, TRAVEL&LEISURE, REAL SIMPLE and Magnolia Journal. She joined the company in 2019 as Chief Strategy Officer. Later that year, she was named Chief Digital Officer, responsible for the digital P&L of the company’s iconic brands. In late 2020, she was named President of Meredith’s National Media Group adding the print and licensing businesses to her management portfolio and making history as the company’s first female Corporate Officer. As President, she led the National Media Group through a period of unprecedented digital expansion, revenue growth and diversification, and strategic application of first-party data and consumer insights. Prior to Meredith’s sale to IAC’s DotDash in December 2021, the National Media Group reached nearly 190 million unduplicated American consumers every month across digital, print, social platforms, video, audio and connected home assistants.

        NPR is who the board is. They’re trying to hide it a little more behind links and I don’t have time to go through everyone. I bet there are a shit ton of corporations on there like the last time I checked in 2024.

        https://www.npr.org/about-npr/182676957/npr-board-of-directors

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        Yeah, and we have like 0.07% of their reach.

        You can fool some people some time, you can fool some people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.

        Unfortunately, you don’t have to fool all the people all the time, 99.93% of the people most of the time will do just fine. Shit, 51% is plenty enough.

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          On politics with a 65% turnout election, you need more than 32.5%

          This why 40% approval is enough to win. Specially if your rival is purist and doesn’t vote for many reasons.

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          We like to shit on Tik Tok, but you’re right that their reach is absolutely massive. Recently when Democrats were writing op eds and taking out ads saying that troops should ignore illegal orders, a high ranking member of the military (I forget who) commented that the messaging was ineffective because troops almost universally get their “news” through Tik Tok.

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            Soldiers will obey orders. That’s what they do.

            My Lai, Abu Ghraib, Kent State, Bonus Army March.

            Soldiers aren’t trained to be moral philosophers, they’re paid to do what they’re told

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            troops almost universally get their “news” through Tik Tok.

            One finger to swipe leaves a hand free for munching crayons.

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              Proving the point perfectly. They aren’t paid to think. They’re paid to follow orders.

              When the time comes, they will not hesitate to fire upon US civilians, and those who do will be shot alongside them.

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          Oh, they’ll get around to shanking lemmy eventually. We should enjoy it while it lasts.

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            I ain’t enjoying shit of this, I just consider it one of the last spaces of the free exchange of ideas and information left. I heard BlueSky is already on the chopping block. Like healthy cells surrounded by metastases, one by one they get consumed.

            But maybe I wax too dramatic when I’m tired and drunk, and the morning is young as the old night dies. I can go on, et cetera, alas, and so forth. Hark. Would you render yonder and caress my Sony Trinitron screen of vint most fine? My cask thumps hollow!

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      Both were blackmailers, their wonderful secret. That’s why they were such enigmas. But epstein was connected to a foreign intelligence agency, maybe the president was too, even that far back.

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    This country sucks. Get me out of this shithole country, I wish i was smart enough to learn mandarin

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    Worth noting is that among the investors loyal to Trump is Larry Ellison, renowned massive turd of a human being. Just totally coincidentally, his festering dingleberry of a son David Ellison is the person that installed the pro-genocide propagandist Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief at CBS.

    Unrelated: Do you ever wonder how tender billionaire flesh is?

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      Unrelated: Do you ever wonder how tender billionaire flesh is?

      No I don’t. I just like the sound it makes when it slices.

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    Meanwhile, we in Europe have American Billionaires constantly attacking any government or legal body that enforces their own national laws, by threatening to sue and throwing childish insults for suppressing free speech.

    Many of us haven’t ever had legal freedom of speech in our constitutions, but the reality is we have a lot more than Americans right now.

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      Well the companies that own social media have a right to moderate as they see fit, and the government has a right to force them to regulate speech behind the scenes. So, freedom of speech means dick online. I mean elsewhere, present company excluded. Reddit is a world better than the rest of them but they’re fucked too and clearly getting worse, as any company going public will be, even without fascists seizing absolute power and nothing left to stop them.

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        The government doesn’t have the right to regulate free speech behind the scenes. It has the ability to, but it is considered a violation of free speech for them to do this. Not that anyone cares.

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    Better get used to it. The oligarchs are swallowing up all the media companies in the US.

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      They’re actually already basically done, since like a couple of months ago or so. It’s kind of pretty very extremely fucked up!

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          They are establishment Dem propaganda. I’ve noticed recent instances where they seem to be somewhat complicit or cagey with their language regarding all the fucked up shit that’s been going on. I.e. using language like “some people argue,” instead of plainly stating obviously illegal or fucked up shit. Their rebranding to MS Now was specifically to distance its brand from be a “resistance brand,” according to the CEO.

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          MSN is owned and operated by Microsoft Corporation.

          MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), is a cable news channel owned by Versant Media Group.

          Versant Media Group is an independent publicly traded company, after they spun off from Comcast.

          Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts and his family retain significant share holder control.

          He’s a billionaire that paid tons of money to both parties (let’s pause and think about this for a moment because as obvious as it is to all of us, we tend to forget that it is not normal to live in a two party state no more than it is living in a one party state), leaning mostly republican.

          So, I guess, as billionaires go, he’s not the worst offender. But, as billionaires go, he will always do what is financially expedient- that’s why any rich person pays both sides, so that regardless who comes out on top YoY, they win.

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    Wish they’d move to the Fediverse instead of people uninstalling TikTok to install some other app that could potentially change its algorithm or funding at any time.