POV: It's January 19th

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Obviously the US. China imports and exports everything through the oceans. Have fun with Russian potatoes dumb dumb CCP members xD

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Oh yeah, I forgot the other social media apps don't collect data and spew propaganda. Oh wait... They do.

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Of all the social media popular in the US, only one of them is doing that tracking and is under the thumb of a foreign adversary. That is specifically the line drawn in the law. I'm actually curious if WeChat shouldn't fall under it too?

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Yeah but only for the benevolent western ultra rich oligarchs, so it's gucci.

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Americans are so fucking stupid oh my god

Coming from someone who confidently believed a law that didn't exist was in effect, these words are a bit flat.

Better words would be "people in general are so fucking stupid", and you are not immune to that.

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Democracy is the worst form of government...

Except for all other forms.

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POV: It's January 19th - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

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He wrote "it's not a democracy, it's a republic" originally.

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If he meant "this system isn't democratic enough", hard agree. It sounded like the "the founders wanted a republic and we should stop trying to be a democracy" you hear from MAGAs.

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Know what the other “tell” is? They write a wall of text. Big thick paragraphs. It’s a thing, start looking for it.

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Why are you mad at the truth? We've known for over a decade that Facebook steals your data and listens to your conversations...

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Well, the founders wanted an oligarchy, and we have an oligarchy...

The first step to fixing the problem, is admitting we have a problem: The US was never intended to be a democracy for anyone except oligarchs, and it's still not a democracy for anyone but oligarchs.

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They could but they haven’t, so this ban is just racist economic protectionism.

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whataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhataboutwhatabout tho?

(For anyone reading this in the future: they made that edit addressing "responder-guys" when the comment had only one reply lol )

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When a person says the US is a republic, not a democracy, I take it as them defining "democracy" as a "pure democracy" only, despite the fact that there are other kinds, such as republics.

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Its just another troll. You give them labels like tankie but they are just trolls.

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Who? People with a lot to say?

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And "Israel" fell right into their trap by...committing genocide.

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& when you call them out they want to lead you down this endless response chain. You wonder if they get bonuses for it

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nice try sweetcheeks but as predicted, a second came