"This is not an attempt to ban TikTok. It's an attempt to make TikTok better. Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner. A winner."

-- Rep. Pelosi

  • Adkml [he/him]
    hexbear
    24
    3 months ago

    I'm officially celbrating when the dems manage to lose to Trump a second time in a decade.

    It's funny and im sick of pretending it isn't.

  • LeZero [he/him]
    hexbear
    23
    3 months ago

    That woman behind her looks mummified

    Not beating the gerontocraty allegations

  • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
    hexbear
    23
    3 months ago

    Oh wow if only there was an American version of TikTok.

    One that didn't get axed in an attempt to cut losses due to the massive influx of racists.

    • @SSJ2Marx
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      22
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      What's wacky is that TikTok is the American version of TikTok. Chinese regulations force their version (Douyin) to be totally different.

    • @novibe@lemmy.ml
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      4
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      TikTok is already fully controlled by the CIA tho… what else do they want? (source)

      Like if you actually read the law itself, it’s clearly about expanding the PATRIOT act and the president’s powers over web based platforms.

      It has nothing to do with TikTok.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
      hexbear
      3
      3 months ago

      She'd be the lousiest martyr though.

      At least Gabby Giffords has principles and guts.

  • Ildsaye [they/them]
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    edit-2
    3 months ago

    I thought she was dead or retired or something. I mean I'm not surprised she's still being renewed with the lifeblood of the poor, just that the seal written in dried blood anchoring her demonic spirit to this plane hasn't been smudged, or otherwise subject to enough mishap or entropy to unravel the spell yet. Surely even the darkest pacts of immortality cannot be entirely certain in this turgid world, restlessly carved by water and wind?