Marx himself lived to see the US move on from chattel slavery.

Nazi Germany was a reactionary backlash as well compared to what came before it. Just trivializing this shit away as “how it’s always been” is tiresome.

It can always get more reactionary than it currently is.

Is this an insane overreaction from the elite?

Maybe I’m just dooming but their rank and file seem to support this 100%.

If it doesn’t lead to backlash against their agenda, it would seem purely rational to take these steps to oppress their political opposition.

I’m wondering if there is any hope at this point to avoid a complete reactionary takeover of America.

They’re a minority politically but they always seem to win. It’s so exhausting.

Voting to decimate their own markets (The communists, you can’t make this shit up) by waging war against China

It sounds like a weird joke

I definitely could see your point about the cause and effect of TikTok popularity being confused here being correct.

Ultimately the ban was motivated by the platforms’ uncensored accounts of the ongoing genocide, so if you are correct we will hopefully see a migration to another platform that also allows for uncensored coverage. (And, more importantly, doesn’t suppress via the algorithm)

American movies and Hollywood are tools of capital but are also an endless flowing river of soft power for the West.

Industries can serve both purposes simultaneously.

Without TikTok, the genocide in Gaza would have gone much more under the radar in the West.

China seems to have almost no serious interest in amassing soft power worldwide.

Giving up TikTok is giving up a great tool to build that power. Perhaps building sympathy for Palestine does not serve their interests (it does, but perhaps they don’t believe so) but whenever the next crisis comes along they may well regret not having it.

Whatever you can say about Democrats and republicans, the republicans definitely wield power more effectively - so the poll results make sense.

Democrats staunchly refuse to change anything and yield all power to do so.

I wonder why people would be afraid to fish if you’re just killing terrorists…

Real thinker, that one.

The speed at which mass unfiltered internet usage has degraded the West’s capacity for rational thought and communication is honestly astounding.

It’s not hyperbole to suggest it may end up being one of the terminal nails in the coffin of the West’s decline.

If I see one more person on Hexbear even suggest the West might have a shred of credibility on the hospital story I am going to scream.

These people told you with wide smiles that Russia destroyed their own pipeline - a lie so ridiculous it beggars belief.

Holy fuck. They are literally just lying. They do this every time. Biden already did this with the babies claim last week. He literally claimed to have seen the fucking nonexistent photos in person. That is how boldly they will lie.

10,000 Palestenian rockets over a decade killed... about 30 people.

Wow, what a coincidence the first seriously destructive missile that Hamas built fell directly on a Gazan Hospital by total accident and killed ~20 times as many as 10 years of rocket attacks had!