Comment by Draiken
5 days ago
Or, you know, Chinese businesses acted like businesses and capitalized on the orange man's stupidity and naturally went viral.
The tinfoil hats come out pretty quickly when China is mentioned but Occam's razor still applies here.
I don't think Occam's razor applies here. Before the tarrifs, Donghua Jinlong glycine going viral was a silly Internet thing, but the tarrifs are big business and it might come off as a tin foil hat theory that the CCP exerted control over TikTok to push videos that undercut American companies in the face of American tarrifs, but geopolitics is very big business. Believing that those videos came up organically seems naive because this shit is a big deal with far reaching global ramifications.