Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by contrarian1234 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:37AM
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Sorry, what? How are my dancing Korean girls and cat videos affecting politics?
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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by itishappy on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @11:46AM
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You're focusing on them instead of politics. "Panem et circenses" is a political tactic.
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by contrarian1234 on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:51PM
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Gosh, no politics in my relaxing doom-scrolling video app. Is it some nefarious plot to pacify the evil capitalists.. or wait... maybe they just know what consumers want?
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by itishappy on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:17PM
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Doesn't have to be a ploy or even intentional, but if boomers watch Fox while zoomers watch dancing... that has political implications.
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by colpabar on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @12:16PM
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It's confusing, but I think I can explain. If you are able to enjoy your life and not worry about something for any period of time, you are actually making a political statement that everyone else is wrong and you think they deserve to die. Every problem in the world must be your problem too, forever and always.
Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner...
by hn_acker on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @03:52PM
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catskul2's comment was very ambiguous, but a charitable interpretation of the first part
> non-political is political. Do you imagine that there aren't people making political TikToks?
is that you are indeed in a filter bubble of non-political content which exists alongside political content. One example of political content on TikTok within the larger Israel-Hamas war topic was the brief trend of commenting on Osama bin Laden's manifesto called "Letter to America" [1]. If you were (not saying that you are) knowingly ignoring the existence of political content on a specific topic on TikTok, then you would be making an inherently political decision (which does not mean that you should change your decision).
[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/osama-bin-ladens-lette...