190
This is why we gotta ban TikTok!!! \s \s \s
People are in such a rush to confirm their own biases that they'll upvote a wacky study from the UAE based on 3 states and AI judges.
Ditch the app. It's showing all the signs of turning into a right-wing racist cesspool like so many other social media apps before it.
There are other options.
Ditch the app.
I'm fairly certain that TikTok plays an instrumental role in the whole brainwashing machinery. The content renders its users incapable of dealing with content that takes longer than 20s to consume. Fact checking however, requires a lot more effort. I just had a fight with my brother. He once was a man that read a shit ton of books and had the patience to sit through epic movies and was culturally adequately informed. Now his 56 year old ass sits on the couch, swiping through one TikTok video after the other and blindly repeats all the "felt truths". When confronted with evidence showing the contrary, he simply rejects those sources as left propaganda. He doesn't even put in an ounce of effort. The man is totally lost and I'm fucking sad as hell about it. He's pretty much the only family I have, other than my wife and daughter. This is in Germany by the way. We're not too far away from the situation in the US.
Extremely sorry this is happening to you. I know some young men who are "not political" and who if you ask them would say they "don't follow politics", yet every dog whistle republican talking point has somehow been demonstrated to them via TikTok without them knowing/noticing. You talk about healthcare or education and it's always "I saw a TikTok and it said that no one actually needs to go to a doctor or school". It's just something the "nanny state" says you should do. Like, how are they so unable to what's happening to them? Then they say it's not political because it's just one persons opinion. Then when you point out that it's affecting their politics and everything is inherently political, all the sudden you're the problem trying to convince them to vote when they don't want to or to vote against Trump or whatever. Normally, I can have a normal conversation with people who disagree with me but I legitimately cannot predict/understand what conclusions they will jump to. I've never had such unorganized, unproductive conversations in my life. Best of luck to you and your family.
Thanks for the kind words! The good thing is, I have some very good friends that I can talk to. That way I'm not entirely alone. Hope this is the case for you too!
Duh, of course CCP, wants mango moron as Prez. He's a spineless POS that is all lies and no action.
CCP will feel free to run over Taiwan and the islands they want to take from Japan.
We know.
Indeed, deleted my account when I notified this.
before or after the democrats tried to shut it down?
The resposes here are amazing. It's stunning how quickly the memoryholing is kicking in.
sorry in advance for the strays you'll catch for saying as much.. yeah, its heavily brigaded/astroturfed just about everywhere you go, nowadays. we're to believe this is the common sentiment because by god, look at how many downvotes they can muster... i'm ambivalent, the truth isn't something they can bully out of my hands
Oh, that's as expected. What's interesting, though, is the same exact argument pattern to other recent debacles. Like, "How dare TikTok/Progressives/Arabs side against us? Could it be they resent that we openly despise them and very recently fucked them over? No, that never happened, also Trump did it too! The only possible explanation for their hostility is that they're ontologically evil, and we therefore have no choice but to continue openly despising them and trying to fuck them over!" Like, if this were a book, it would be panned for it's heavy-handed hubris allegory.
i can still allow for them to be misinformed and or differently oriented- so not necessarily evil. as for fucking them over, i don't care so much about that directly- i have more modest ambitions. i want people to see how often there's a great big elephant in the room that you're really 'not supposed to' talk about. eating 20 downvotes for an innocuous comment is revelatory
You mean that trump tried to shut down?
"On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down."
Yes the one that trump started. Thanks for coming out.
did biden have to sign?? can you at least admit it was bipartisan or does that shake you to your tribalist core?
Fuck, can you? Yeah I know biden signed it, I was just showing you that you were wrong about it being the dems lol. Tribalist core? Lol
and op is wrong to implicate only republicans... so i guess we've come to some accord
You mean the poster for the article that says there is a gop bias? Or me for calling you out for saying "democrats"?
yeah i wanna know if that bias was before or after apr 24
It could very well be but that's irrelevant to the article
Are you lying or just stupid? Because it was definitely trump that shut it down
"On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down."
Your grasp of recent history is mind boggling stupid to have ignored what happened, literally 5 years ago when trump and the GOP created the law and EO to shut down TikTok.
As a troll, you're not even remotely believable. Go back to your cave, and try again.
"On April 24, President Joe Biden signed legislation requiring TikTok parent ByteDance to sell to a U.S. owner within a year or to shut down."
It's freedom of speech. If people want a pro-Republican bias in the algorithm they should be allowed to have that without interference from the US government.
Algorithms get speech protections?
TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram etc only make you think you have speech, in reality what you post is largely ignored your are just a recipient of what the algorithm serves you and in case of TikTok, algorithm serves you whatever CCP decides.
I'm not saying Twitter, Facebook, Instagram are good either, they do the same thing and you should quit all.
this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
190 points (100.0% liked)
politics
19928 readers
2816 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS