Mr Trump, the Amerikkkan people yearn for their treats treatler

  • FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    I’m honestly curious what will happen. if he ignores the supreme court hell could break loose. but it could also be really hilarious to see the ensuing chaos. just an average evening in burgerland.

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      while it could cause some chaos , its important to remember that Trump can legally ignore the supreme court since they passed that law that presidents cant be charge for breaking the law during their term, but besides maybe some protests by dems i dont see any large scale action against him happening if he undo the ban

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    I want to say American’s will forget quickly, but an app being banned by the government is unprecedented in the US so who knows

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    lmao Biden made sure one of the last events of his presidency was banning the most popular social media site in the country, leaving it to be unbanned by Trump days later.

    Democrats really don’t want to win.

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        Apparently in one of his recent videos, he argued we need to rethink the whole “anyone from anywhere being able to talk to anyone else” aspect of technology, on accounta scary-wary foreign disinformation

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          On the one hand, I agree with him, but only in the sense that I think AES countries need to shut down disinformation from the US and the West. Their whole argument about why they should be able to output propaganda to these countries has always been the right to freedom of speech, so it is hilarious watching one of their most sacred pillars of liberalism crumble before our very eyes.

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          Libs sacrificing one more of their so-called liberal values one by one when they can’t control every aspect of how people exercise those values

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      2 months ago

      Funny because Trump brought it up before Biden was in office. “Man praised for putting out fire after starting said fire.” Lucky for him it seems TikTok users have memories as short as their media.

      Edit: wording

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        Trump didn’t start the fire. He said “maybe we should start a fire”, then didn’t. Democrats later decided to actually start a fire. Democrats poured the fuel and Biden lit the match.

  • Absolutely hilarious play by TikTok and probably the most easily avoidable PR disaster for the Democrats in decades. I laughed so fucking hard when I saw this, I can only imagine the panicked phone calls that are happening right now.

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    2 months ago

    At this point I believe the democrats are deliberately trying to boost Trump’s approval rating.

    Why? So they justify their own right wing turn? They want to work across the aisle? Idk pick whatever reason you want.

    I guess normalizing Trump does ward off any revolutionary potential in the population, so maybe it’s not so farfetched.

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    https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-around-the-us-tiktok-ban/

    The company said in the days before the law took effect that it planned to make the app inaccessible to US users—a level of cooperation and accommodation that the outgoing Biden White House called a “stunt” on Saturday afternoon. Even if TikTok itself had obligations under the law, the Biden White House had signaled that it did not plan to enforce the ban before Trump took office on Monday.

    lmao

    also, VPNs won’t wok either

    • MelaniaTrump [undecided]@hexbear.net
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      How is it a stunt when the law Biden signed is literally

      As of January 19, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will make it unlawful for companies in the United States to provide services to distribute, maintain, or update the social media platform TikTok

      powell-propaganda

      like what did he think would happen on his last day in office when you’re banning a treat?

      • mar_k [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        the law was enacted but not enforced yet, but they decided to enforce it upon themselves, before they legally had to. last week biden said he’d leave the fate of the enforcement in trump’s hands, in an attempt to save face i guess

        stroking trump’s savior complex like this will probably double the chances of him actually following through tbh. smart move from tiktok

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          But “enforced” means what, international arrest warrants and sanctions against bytedance employees? Corporate fines? I honestly don’t know, but we generally don’t describe people following murder law as “enforcing a self-ban on killing people.”

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            yeah but the white house basically told them they don’t have to block it right away and there would be 0 consequences

            we generally don’t describe people following murder law as “enforcing a self-ban on killing people.”

            if murder law was enacted without any enforcement or penalty then that descriptor wouldn’t be too far off