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The War mongers DID scare any opposition into silence or losing big. Recall how professionals lost their careers: The Dixie Chicks lost their career at their he

The War mongers DID scare any opposition into silence or losing big. Recall how professionals lost their careers: The Dixie Chicks lost their career at their height, Bill Maher lost his show etc. Sure today we are seeing a repeat where Pro-Israel supporters are getting pro-Palestinian newscasters fired, actors are losing their roles, people who place Palestinian flags in their linkedin bios are getting their employers harassed etc. But with the advent of Tiktok we are at least getting an avenue to see what is happening in Palestine whereas its buried on all other platforms. Maybe its being artificially boosted but the end result is that there are mass protests in all the cities and TikTok is allowing the conversation to continue so the topic remains top of mind in peoples heads. A future president may actually be in one of those protests and Tiktok may have directly contributed to their future world view. A world view where the current power base loses out.

rightbyte 3y ago
> Recall how I was way to young at the time to have had any political conscious. The scary part is that the war mongerers seems to hide in the closet until they collectivly see a chance to war monger. Then they come out in force and there is a window where they control the narrative (relative to their usual share of control of the narrative) until people calm down abit. There is always this implied "I'll hit you in the face" or "when SHTF I'll shoot you" from those personality types. They are very hard to deal with. The "narrative" difference on e.g. Reddit vs TikTok or Twitter is baloney. Reddit is so extremely manipulated nowadays. Not just in this matter at hand regard, but in many questions it is sect like.
- nebula8804 3y ago
  >I was way to young at the time to have had any political conscious. Well its important to learn what happened in the run up to the Iraq war since a lot of the same government officials that ran things then are still around. Its not ancient history. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks (the section on the 2003 era explains how this band got destroyed due to their opposition to the imminent war) [2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher#Politically_Incorrect_with_Bill_Maher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher#Politically_Incorre... >The "narrative" difference on e.g. Reddit vs TikTok or Twitter is baloney. Do you have any additional reasoning as to why? Without it your argument falls apart. From what I can see, the mere fact that you have constant updates flowing on TikTok vs Reddit or other platforms is what makes it stand out.

rightbyte 3y ago

> Recall how I was way to young at the time to have had any political conscious. The scary part is that the war mongerers seems to hide in the closet until they collectivly see a chance to war monger. Then they come out in force and there is a window where they control the narrative (relative to their usual share of control of the narrative) until people calm down abit. There is always this implied "I'll hit you in the face" or "when SHTF I'll shoot you" from those personality types. They are very hard to deal with. The "narrative" difference on e.g. Reddit vs TikTok or Twitter is baloney. Reddit is so extremely manipulated nowadays. Not just in this matter at hand regard, but in many questions it is sect like.

nebula8804 3y ago
>I was way to young at the time to have had any political conscious. Well its important to learn what happened in the run up to the Iraq war since a lot of the same government officials that ran things then are still around. Its not ancient history. [1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicks (the section on the 2003 era explains how this band got destroyed due to their opposition to the imminent war) [2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher#Politically_Incorrect_with_Bill_Maher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Maher#Politically_Incorre... >The "narrative" difference on e.g. Reddit vs TikTok or Twitter is baloney. Do you have any additional reasoning as to why? Without it your argument falls apart. From what I can see, the mere fact that you have constant updates flowing on TikTok vs Reddit or other platforms is what makes it stand out.