POV: It's January 19th

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Late 18th century. The chaos of the French Revolution arguably diluted its viability as an example to other countries, despite the structure of democratic government being objectively better, so you can argue that we were still on the cutting-edge through the 19th century, even, when most countries were still autocracies or constitutional monarchies with extremely questionable de jure voting systems.

I would argue as late as the 1950s, our democratic structure was closer to average than below-average, but by the 1970s, what gave the US more in-common with other developed democracies was that we had extensive practice with our democratic system; by then our structure was not just hopelessly outdated, but a structure that no one in their right mind would take seriously as a foundation for a new government. Come the fall of most of the single-party Soviet-backed regimes of the 1990s, and the only countries we actually beat out for being a 'good democracy' are ones that... well, are only questionably democracies to begin with. And even then, most of them have structures that are superior to our's; only a tradition of civic participation has led us to hobble on as long as we have without becoming an outright authoritarian state.

Though this might be the last month I can say that, which says a lot about the failures of our shitshow of an attempt at implementing democracy.

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Denying is different than not knowing.

... then you admit you were knowingly and outright lying?

That's... that's worse than what I was accusing you of.

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They out here. Both of them. This post smells just like one tbh.

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Umm. No, the exact opposite, o.O

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Why is there so much political messaging right now

Fuck off with all the democracy doomsday posting, I just want to see funny memes

Bizzle

That's my birthday lmfao

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There’s a difference in not knowing and denying.

As I said elsewhere, knowing it but still denying it, is considerably worse than being ignorant or confused.

Yeah, when you ignored the context of the OP.

... what context in the OP did I ignore?

Are you always this nitpicky?

This is what you said:

The current context of the tiktok ban is that it’s hard for the US to control the political message with that big of a platform not under US control.

I didn't realize that it was nitpicky to dispute a point.

No. I prefer a wide range of different news sources where I can judge the biases. I can still get good information from Tiktok if I know that I should be critical concerning anything about China’s policy.

You shouldn't be getting any of your information directly from social media. Furthermore, propaganda is like advertising - you are not immune to it. The "I'm too smart to be fooled" approach just makes you a mark.

So you’d prefer it if Facebook/Twitter/Google/Microsoft/Amazon are the only ones in control of mass online discourse? (That’s the type of strawman you’re constructing of me)

I would prefer it if none of them did, and if Facebook or Twitter or Google catches a ban, I won't be defending them as news sources which don't spread propaganda, "and if they did, so what?"

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As I said: you're interested in dunking. I'm not interested in your debate-bro attitude. Especially, when you're (willfully) misrepresting me.

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Go into the bathroom look above the sink funniest joke you'll see all day.

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When's its not evil it's call advertising, and that's still fucking evil.

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To be clear, you imagine the Chinese government, which has a large group dedicated to censoring all internet communication/social media behind the Great Firewall, has decided that it would be rude to tweak algorithms to push similar narratives to what the Party would push?

Or what, China's very public efforts to shape global narratives only goes as far as public and global policy but they respect the sanctity of your social media feed?

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Well I guess you're both asses then

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The House of Saud apparently found out about and took issue to blahaj.zone so who knows

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? Who's out here?

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Yes, and that's why US companies aren't banned by the US. The foreign power having so much propaganda power was the danger.

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On Arch tho?

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Tankies malding cuz they can't come out and say "nooo how will I goon to teenagers now"

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That assumes ByteDance and TikTok approve a sale... They've been very adamant they will not.

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Reader's Note - There has been no evidence submitted showing any of the allegations towards TikTok are true. In fact TikTok publicly embarked on a project to silo all US Data.

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Blah blah blah "we built our own great firewall and painted it red white and blue, and even banned the use of vpns to get to foreign sites which even China doesn't do. We're totally the good guys BTW."

Americans are so fucking stupid, oh my god.