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SuperJail Warden wrote:

uziq wrote:

tiktok absolutely is worse, what are you even talking about. every legacy social media is full of digital junk food and misinformation but tiktok is precision-engineered to gigafry your brain.

even china bans half its features and content for
their home audience and they made the thing. it’s a perfect tool for melting dopamine receptors and disseminating toxicity.

You are really going to become a conservative as you get older.

TikTok isn't any different than Instagram Reels or other stuff. And not all of it or any other social network is brain rot. There are small communities and subcultures that revolve around TikTok that will get washed away when the government bans it.

oh yeah, like booktok. a real promoter of excellence.

you use AI for 95% of your job. of course you're pro tiktok. you've been colonised by slop.

The US govt is right.

The Chinese shouldn't be controlling the multimedia feeds and minds of impressionable kids - that should be reserved for billionaire jews and south african fascists.

Is China really worse then the jews though?

I'm enjoying the "no more fact checking" memes on, er, facebook itself.

Imagine being a normal person in Greenland. You are just trying to live a normal life up in the north. Suddenly you need to follow whatever Trump is saying because he threatened to take over the island.

The dude is such a fucking dick head.

The next 4 years will be a disaster. I don't expect a Trump dictatorship but instead everything will just get a bit worse. No attempts even made to try to help people.

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SuperJail Warden wrote:

Imagine being a normal person in Greenland. You are just trying to live a normal life up in the north. Suddenly you need to follow whatever Trump is saying because he threatened to take over the island.

The dude is such a fucking dick head.

The next 4 years will be a disaster. I don't expect a Trump dictatorship but instead everything will just get a bit worse. No attempts even made to try to help people.

Yeah that shit is retarded. One big thing I liked about trump is I thought he would be more of an isolationist and not fuck with other countries. Really starting to realize more and more he's kind of a con man. We were fucked either way tho, not much of a choice this election

lil_droo wrote:

Really starting to realize more and more he's kind of a con man.

LMAO

Compared to the rambling tirades, the cruel, sexist, racist, ableist jokes, yes. Harris's flaw of *checks notes* laughing like a normal human being is definitely the glaring issue that fairly decided it for people. Compleeeetely understandable. She should have composed herself like a block of ice so the Republicans could call her a dead fish.

Why did Harris have to compete to meet much higher standards than the old white conman? Were there perhaps other reasons people voted for Trump? Is it that Trump perhaps scratches a certain biased itch that still lingers in America? I always hear that more about women than men. "Her laughter bothers me." Why else would a woman laughing in the company of a personality like Whoopi Goldberg rub people the wrong way like you say? Trump could have laughed at some rapey joke from an aLpHa host and his base would've been like "yep, I grok that."

related: Why is it that pundits on the right can just get away with "because we said so," and people will emphatically nod, but pundits on the left (lol, American left) have to provide endless reams of exhaustive proof for anything they say before a right-winger will listen long enough to say "well, I don't trust the 'experts'," breaking out the finger-quotes.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2025-01-14 10:49:18)

the democrats aren't exactly offering much hope. trump may be a world-historical piece of populist shit, but the current biden white house have just sponsored one of the worst genocides in living memory. worse, it looks like the trump admin may be forcing a ceasefire in basically week 1 of their administration. if it was really that easy, why did blinken et al. not do it before 150,000 people got flattened in their own homes? (perhaps best not to answer that.)

you have to really be either uniquely evil or seriously incompetent to make donald trump look like a peace-broker and deliverer of salvation on the world stage. watch the biden team try to sort something this week so they can try to claim credit before the donald does. sheer cynicism. evil.

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-14 14:24:53)

money? that’s the stupidest shit i ever heard. they’ve just blown a fortune flattening gaza city and making incursions into lebanon.  war is expensive. why would america risk becoming a pariah state for money from israel? you don’t need their money.

it is 100% ideological for the biden government. he has strong views about israel. all of his senior executive team are zionists.

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-14 17:21:02)

It's money, don't overthink it. Biden isn't ideological about anything. 'Meh, neutral' was his 2020 platform. Biden the catholic?

War is expensive? The fuck? I'll let Dick Cheney know.

pirana6 wrote:

It's money, don't overthink it. Biden isn't ideological about anything. 'Meh, neutral' was his 2020 platform. Biden the catholic?

War is expensive? The fuck? I'll let Dick Cheney know.

why is biden’s catholicity important? have you been living in a cave? there’s a huge tendency of american christians to support zionism. there’s even a wing of evangelism that believes israel will help bring the return of christ.

biden has spoken explicitly about his belief in the zionist project. he has spoken about the influence that meeting israeli figures had on him as a junior senator. catholicism has nothing to do with it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/28/us/p … -gaza.html

Over the course of his career, he has traveled to Israel seven times as a senator, three times as vice president and now twice as president. He has met every prime minister since Golda Meir. His passion for the Jewish state has been evident that a fellow senator years ago called him “the only Catholic Jew.” A longtime Israeli official more recently called him “the first Jewish president.” He embraces Jewish nationalism. “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist,” he often says.

war is expensive for a nation in many ways. reputational as well as economic. the sums involved in supplying arms to israel are not worth it. the same biden admin that just printed a trillion dollars in post-covid stimulus is desperate to sell iron dome resupplies to israel? come on now.

if the profit of the war is such a great incentive, why is the donald - the supreme example of the businessman president - nixing it in day one? this is a man who constantly threatens NATO allies because they’re not ‘paying enough’. a man who wants to ‘do a deal for greenland’. the economic argument is almost all he sees.

think you may need to go back to the drawing board on this one. talking conspiratorially about halliburton profits doesn’t explain shit. it barely explained the second iraq war either.

claiming the richest country on earth will risk censure by the international criminal court, seriously damaging america’s credibility as a global paragon of human rights, rules-based order, etc., in the process for a piffling sum of money to flatten gaza … i ask you again how that makes any sense. ideology absolutely fills the gap.

Last edited by uziq (2025-01-15 03:19:53)