Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows
Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows
The fact that Congress could come together so rapidly and so unanimously to do something so stupid, at a time when our country is falling apart, says so much about their priorities. They work for the Capitalist class, not us.
Trump: Ban TikTok! Trump: Save TikTok! Biden: Ban TikTok! Biden: Save TikTok!
just a couple of regular old politicians
These two fuckers need to share the same retirement hole.
🤡
Hmm I wonder if the game now is for Trump to 'negotiate' a deal where one of his cronies buys it and turns it into another right-wing propaganda machine just like Musk did with Twitter. I could see that as a reason why he'd backtrack on it so abruptly.
Isn't it already a right wing propaganda machine?
Because of the nature of the algorithm, it absolutely is this for plenty of people. It's also not the case for plenty of people. I doubt there are many right-wingers going on to join a Chinese app called "Little Red Book" which has rules that require the promotion of Chinese socialism. It's the most popular app in the US now because of this ban.
Not really, I'd say it's equally spread along all points in the political spectrum currently.
Trying to enforce anything new right now, just before Trump goes into office, accomplishes nothing and guarantees that Trump will just reverse it. Publicly deciding not to enforce leaves the incoming administration with a less obvious choice PR-wise, and thus the possibility that they might choose to "own the libs" by actually enforcing the ban.
They are largely powerless at this stage, and preparing for an idiot to take over their job. Why not?
I always wished the Dems would leverage this power a bit more. But who knows--maybe this Biden move is trying to get Trump to ban it.
me sowing (signing a bill into law and bragging about its bipartisan support): haha fuck yeah!
me reaping (hearing that the Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 to uphold the law that I signed): well this fucking sucks. what the fuck.
there's always fierce competition in the category of Dumbest Own-Goal by a Democrat...but here comes President "only mostly dead...still slightly alive" Biden with a last-minute buzzerbeater and....MUH GAWD HE'S DONE IT!