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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by spoonjim on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @02:49PM (#30859272)
LOL. The single greatest threat to Western society is Western society itself. Declining fertility, mass immigration at the border but brutally hard immigration for high skill workers, civil wars over pointless culture war issues, and the destruction of the social norms that once held us together. But go blame Facebook if you want.
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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by michaelmrose on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @10:18PM (#30863177)
Declining fertility is probably one part bad health and one part inequality. It has zero parts to do with too many brown folks coming to live in our nation.

It is a logical absurdity to suppose that folks coming to America are a threat to the integrity of western civilization while those who descended from immigrants are part of it. We are all of us who grew up in the west and who have chosen to come live here a part of western civilization. There is no them we are all us.

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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by naravara on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:47PM (#30859955)
Facebook is a major contributor to the pointless cultural war obsession and the erosion of pro-social norms though.
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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by pessimizer on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @04:40PM (#30860511)
So are the telephone and families getting together for the holidays.
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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by naravara on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:02PM (#30860726)
Surely you realize how much of a stretch that is. If you wanted to say broadcast television or radio you might have a point but analogizing an algorithmic feed tuned to stoke outrage to families spending time together is just a farcically bad faith approach.
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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by michaelmrose on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @10:20PM (#30863191)
Your telephone company doesn't choose to filter a selection of incoming callers including not only friends but friends of friends of friends in order to expose you to the folks who will keep you on the phone the longest which accidentally turns out to be the folks that play on your existing deep seated anxieties and deficiencies.
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