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Alienate a literal entire generation from voting for you lol, lmao.
common demoncrap L
Outside of presiding over massive inflation, the loss of women’s right to choose, genocide of the Palestinians, the arming of Nazis in a proxy war, increasing terror at the US border, increasing warrantless surveillance on Americans who aren’t in Congress, increasing police budgets everywhere, killing free speech, and making criticism of Israel a hate crime, what mistakes can you point to that Biden has made? We’re actually lucky if you think of all the bad stuff throughout history that he hasn’t presided over.
don't forget abandoning covid guidelines and caving to the rightwing's policies and stiffing us on our promised stimulus checks and debt forgiveness.
Oh yeah, and betraying the BLM bloc you just coopted by saying "defund the police is a rightwing idea"
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This is what I am being told by every lib on the Discord servers I am in.
EDIT: They like to repeat the gotcha of when it takes place like its some sort of master move.
Oh thank god, it won't affect the next election, the most important election of our lives. But I fear the consequences of alienating the youth for the election after, the most important election of our lives
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Good. China should also retaliate and start forcing American companies in China to hand over ownership
They already do....
Almost everything foreign in China is 51% state owned. McDonald's franchises, Costcos, Gucci stores, etc.
Those places entered into China while agreeing to those restrictions. That’s different than the US allowing foreign investment then rugpulling it and stealing the Chinese owned portion of a business after the fact.
In order to retaliate, China needs to seize or steal American capital.
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We've gotta pump those numbers up
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I feel like they've got a strong constitutional case. One BBC article I read said that 60% of their company ownership is by global hedge funds so they just plainly aren't a Chinese company. Singling them out for having dissident information through an act of congress is precisely what the 1st Amendment is supposed to protect against. With the sale supposed to happen in November at the earliest, the red scare will either fade by then or become a much larger issue they can capitalise on.
The constitution means jack shit, it wouldn’t matter if it explicitly stated “TikTok shall not be banned”, the state does whatever the fuck it wants and the hardest part is coming up with the weasel words in the judgement that explains how it’s perfectly constitutional, ackshually.
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a bunch of freaks think the constitution only applies to us citizens.
i can't predict confidently whether business rights or foreign no rights will win out here.
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Good, don't give into terrorist's extortion.
Really at this point I am just impressed by how hard they are fighting against both bread and circuses
The Circus is anti-semetic because the gladiators called for a ceasefire.
They hate it when they do not have total control over both. While demanding that others should be fine with their bread and circuses. Classical preaching water and drinking wine.
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If you don't allow the political and invsstment oligarchs control your media outlet, they will either force you to shut down or surrender to an investment oligarch.
the right call for sure, make it hurt politically
This might be sincere, but as someone who worked in M&A in a past life, it’s pretty standard to say “I’m not interested in selling” to bluff the price up a bit.
Thing is, it's only the US that would be threatening to ban it. And if they sell, this FreedumbTok would be available in most other countries. It would create a world-class competitor overnight, exactly equivalent to their product, that would also have a gigantic competitive advantage- access to US consumers and businesses. FreedumbTok would likely eat away at TikTok in the rest of the world. They won't sell
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My understanding is that the algorithm at the core of TikTok cannot be ecported from China without the approval of Chinese regulators, and it seems pretty likely that they'll not approve a sale at gunpoint.
It also makes sense to me that they'd rather just amputate their US operations to preserve their IP and prevent an American competitor from fighting over their market share everywhere else.
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I can't imagine there's that many suitors for this thing, it's a big bite
Does FB, Insta, Zitter, Google, MicroShit, Discord, Github, etc. all have to divest as well? No? So they can just keep harvesting our data? 
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Waiting for the spike in searches for VPN to dwarf all the state porn ban ones.
Isn’t it tiresome for the people in power to be in conflict with like 4 billion people globally at all hours of the day?
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A masterful gambit by Mr Biden
They should block all US users and on the block page have an ad for a VPN service.
The politicians are shooting themselves in the head over tiktok. 
good
The best outcome. I don’t like TikTok, but red scare forcing them to sell is bad too.
it's the best social media site.
when I post about trans issues on TikTok I'll get thousands upon thousands of likes and lots of really supportive comments. Only a couple trolls.
Post it on youtube and you get like 40 views, a bunch of dislikes, and a couple of slurs
it's the best social media site.
Hexbear put on fucking blast
It’s gotten much worse because of American meddling. The site was intentionally suppressing videos about BLM in 2020. They also have a ´beauty’ algorithm that gives preference to white, skinny, young influencers at the expense of everybody else.
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Incredibly based
Do it. 
Good move, pull out of the US and sell to "Canadians"(Americans with VPNs)
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