▲ 88 ▼ US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip [M] to c/technology@lemmy.zip 85 comments fedilink hide all child comments Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child) non-hexbear/non-lemmygrad user handle ridiculous kindergarten-tier reasoning like pottery "waaahhh they're only DISPASSIONATELY SELLING the racism, they don't actually feel it in their hearts!" First of all that's irrelevant Second of all your work almost always becomes your personality to some extent so you're almost certainly wrong permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) And you're better, right? No. You aren't. I'm on hexbear fairly frequently. I don't have any issue with hexbear or lemmygrad. I'm just not ignoring the fact all these nations do this. China has an almost exclusive ecosystem, yet somehow when the US does it it's racism? No. It isn't about race. It's about control. This apiea to China, Russia, and the US, and any other power in the future or past. Anyone who has the capability to gain control also has disposition to exploit their control. You don't gain control without that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago Except it isn't actually the same. Bytedance can give the US government all the control literally everything they asked for and it hasn't been enough, because ultimately that is not what it's about. permalink fedilink source parent [–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago Ion't recognize you, peckerwood. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago literally half your political establishment (meaning 70% of the whites) like Russia for no other reason other than them being white LOTTA WHITE NOISE IN HERE permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 years ago (3 children) And you're better, right? No. You aren't. I'm on hexbear fairly frequently. I don't have any issue with hexbear or lemmygrad. I'm just not ignoring the fact all these nations do this. China has an almost exclusive ecosystem, yet somehow when the US does it it's racism? No. It isn't about race. It's about control. This apiea to China, Russia, and the US, and any other power in the future or past. Anyone who has the capability to gain control also has disposition to exploit their control. You don't gain control without that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago Except it isn't actually the same. Bytedance can give the US government all the control literally everything they asked for and it hasn't been enough, because ultimately that is not what it's about. permalink fedilink source parent [–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago Ion't recognize you, peckerwood. permalink fedilink source parent [–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago literally half your political establishment (meaning 70% of the whites) like Russia for no other reason other than them being white LOTTA WHITE NOISE IN HERE permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago Except it isn't actually the same. Bytedance can give the US government all the control literally everything they asked for and it hasn't been enough, because ultimately that is not what it's about. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago Ion't recognize you, peckerwood. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago literally half your political establishment (meaning 70% of the whites) like Russia for no other reason other than them being white LOTTA WHITE NOISE IN HERE permalink fedilink source parent