Comment by postcert
3 days ago
The most disheartening part of this ban is that it’s just about the only thing the government can agree on. IMO Mitt Romney slipped the truth in saying: “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it's overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts."
TikTok is the first and just about the only place I’ve seen content about corporate greed, the accelerating disappearance of the middle class and the real downstream effects of US foreign policy that hasn’t been whitewashed.
The ball is in China’s court now, if they can provide a space where this class consciousness can continue to grow they’ll easily get equal/better (though I think magnitudes greater) returns than Russia’s recent social campaigns.
> The ball is in China’s court now, if they can provide a space where this class consciousness can continue to grow they’ll easily get equal/better
We can hope the CCP's consciousness grows and they shutdown their concentration camps, stop organ harvesting, and start having elections.
The ball is in their court.
We can talk TikTok being allowed after that.
Maybe every other country should ban American imports until we stop bankrolling Israel if that's your position.
Sure. Plenty of people to trade with who don't support terrorists like Hamas.
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What's the implication? That we as a society and/or government have a more just consciousness?
There are certainly are issues in China but are these "popular headline" talking points worse than the suffering we have here? And that's even after assuming they are factual.
We sell prison labor for pennies. We allow individuals to create epidemics and slap them on the wrist. We allow the future of our next generations to be squandered for today's profits. We allow our government to be just as captive to the desires of private parties in a way that's effectually reduced elections to a non-choice.
I don't think anyone with a conscious can say we're any better and that's without taking into account our worst contributions of genocides/wars/instability to the global community.
But in the end w/e, you have your freedom tinted glasses on (it must be nice) and the average american is screwed on our current trajectory.
The difference between prison labor and Uyghur forced labor camps:
In the US those people lost their rights by committing criminal acts and were convicted by a jury of their peers.
In China, the Uyghurs were forced into camps because of their ethnicity.
No different than Nazi Germany. And yes those camps are real.
Btw the prison labor camp talking point is a common 50 cent army tactic. Not sure if you're doing it for free or...
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