• RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      13 hours ago

      The Don wants to keep TikTok around now too, since he apparently got a fat donation from one of his friends, who happen to own a large share of ByteDance stock.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        12 hours ago

        Even with no financial incentive, Trump stopping the TIkTok ban after the rednote migration already happens converts like 10% of the american populace into an as of yet undiscovered syncretic politics of being open to china but also trump

        • quarrk [he/him]
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          9 hours ago

          It’s pretty easy for me to imagine a group of people who simply love siding with winners. They see in China a winner, and envision a future where Trump and China have a close alliance and dominate the world economically. Purely vibes based reasoning that wouldn’t surprise me at all.

        • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]
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          11 hours ago

          into an as of yet undiscovered syncretic politics of being open to china but also trump

          We shall call this ideology Dialectical Treatism.

          • 7bicycles [he/him]
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            11 hours ago

            10 years down the line and you get chuds raging about the tariffs proposed by President Andrew Cuomo on those chinese civilian hotpot MREs

      • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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        13 hours ago

        You'd think X, Google, and Meta shareholders would just out bribe him to have him ban it again.