• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Lmao, yes.

    He “brought it back” before he was even in office. And since no one looks up anything, I’m sure it did it’s job.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      How do people not see through this theatre? It wasn’t even subtle. Oh right, the brainrot…

  • Letme@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Sort of, yes. It is a counterintelligence/disinformation app, and for that reason it makes MAGA look good. MAGA now controls all 3 of the top disinformation apps: Twitter, Facebook , and Tiktok. This is the war on truth; facts and honesty lost.

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    2 months ago

    All CEOs understood how to behave with such an arrogant person: flatter him and he will bow to your every wims.

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    2 months ago

    Yeah, the super obvious political stunt was a political stunt. It only fools those that don’t pay any attention or don’t know how anything works. Biden said he would not enforce the order, that trump signed during his first term, to ban tiktok. Then tiktok chose to shut itself down for a day and chose to turn itself back on with its political pandering notice. It is all to manipulate it’s users while also paying fealty to the incoming president (because China knows that is how easy he is to control).

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    2 months ago

    Given that he was the one that called for it to be banned extremely vocally, and he’s not been able to keep it banned for more than a few hours even as the now leader of that country, seemingly caving under pressure to flip his stance on the matter (showing off the bat that he’s very politically weak)…

    I don’t see how this makes him look anything but weak, or inept.

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      Ahh, but see you’re been following this over several months/years, or looked up what actually happened. You’re not the target for this dupe.

      This tactic works incredibly well as you’ll find you are outside the norm. I still remember people ranting about how Obama was late responding to Hurricane Katrina.

      Welcome to Politics 2.0 where the information is freely available but the facts don’t matter.

  • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No, this is just what it looks like when evil encoaches. Having no true ethical or moral obligations it decides everything on a case by case basis and if it can’t be controlled then it is destroyed.

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    Can someone explain to me how they believe the Trump team convinced Biden to sign the ban?

    If you think it was a stunt for the benefit of Trump, you’re implying the Biden admin was in on it. Doesn’t make sense to me. Seems the more likely scenario is Biden just royally fucked up again to the point of somehow making Trump look good.

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    2 months ago

    While the whole situation is shitty, I find it hard to believe a massive company would shut down services for 12 hours, losing millions in revenue and likely millions of users, all as a PR stunt for a foreign leader.