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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 132 points 1 day ago

Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.

trump is going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.

It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"

And now, this adds two layers:

  1. You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.

  2. trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.

P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting in the background.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

I think there's an even simpler explanation: political debt to Jeff Yass (15% tiktok owner) and his cash for the 2024 campaign.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/donald-trump-jeff-yass

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Trump doesn't have the power to "save" TikTok.

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