SnotFlickerman

The best kind of smoke machine.

Not meaning this in defense of Tiktok, but...

If Tiktok doesn't push this kind of social divisiveness in their own country, it's because they regulated it in their home country. They're simply exploiting the fact that the US has basically zero regulations in place, so they're allowed to promote socially destructive content. Why wouldn't they? It's not like what they're doing is materially different than what Xitter, Meta/Facebook, Reddit, and so on do. Honestly, it's already happening at Bluesky because we have no rules and rely almost exclusively on site moderators enforcing social decorum rules. If Tiktok in China is "better" it's because the government there forces it to be, like maybe we ought to consider doing maybe.

The US government just doesn't like it when it's not their guys propagandizing and dividing the populace. They want to enjoy the fruits of that, not a foreign actor. The mask is truly off, they really do think their own poverty-striken citizens are the enemy. The government speaks out of both sides of its mouth about backdoors in encryption, with one part of the FBI saying you need to use encrypted services to safely communicate, and another part saying we need backdoors in encryption even though Salt Typhoon literally saw hackers exploit US telecom backdoors that which the hackers still persist in exploiting.

I kind of love memes like this since they always remind me of Kate Mulgrew's time at NTSF:SD:SUV, where she played a character that was basically this over-the-top.

Why do I like mean girls and why do I especially like it when Kate Mulgrew is mean?? The world may never know.

Trapped in this fucking anxious flesh-prison.

Matter sucks, we should all be made of pure energy.

What, I thought Scully was the reserved, introverted, bookish one?

The only reason Mulder doesn't get pegged as an extrovert is because he can hardly hold together real human relationships because aliens.

This but it's just me staring in the mirror saying "Bloody Mary" three times.

This is better if you read the "me" parts in the voice of Tom Servo (as pictured), and the alien parts in the voice of Dr. Forrester.

It doesn't have to be "Trump controlled" all the businesses just care more about views and profits than anything else, including the stability of the monetary system which produces their profits.

Especially traditional media whose viewer numbers keep dropping, the only way to fluff their industry is non-stop wall-to-wall coverage of every unhinged thing Trump says because it makes people watch.

Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/leslie-moonves-donald-trump-may-871464/

They said the quiet part out loud nearly 10 years ago. They don't care about the impacts, they just care that it worked to get eyeballs glued to screens. They never cared about "truth" in reporting or "speaking truth to power."

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-ceo-defends-censoring-content-overseas-were-not-in-the-truth-to-power-business-2019-11-06

‘We’re not in the truth-to-power business. We’re in the entertainment business.’

It's always this way with right wing fuckholes.

It's literally always simple as "rules for thee, not for me."

When Bush absolutely fucked up the response to Hurricane Katrina, liberals weren't supposed to be giving hot takes about how bad Bush blowing it, and right wingers would flip shit to their faces if they did.

But when the shoes on the other foot, it's always fair game for these sick freaks.

Stop thinking that they understand any language but power. They won't stop their political hot takes in this environment. Literally the only thing you can do is use whatever little power you have to fucking smack down the worst offenders with the law. In the US that's hard because law to handle people being assholes trying to fuck up the country basically doesn't exist.

Pussyfooting and not slapping these motherfuckers into next week with charges and convictions is why we're in this fucking position to begin with, where obvious foreign actors have filled the highest positions of government.

No, no they are not. Clearly.

I know just who he can call!