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Agreed it's crazy, but it's a good political move. Everyone agrees we should ban it, but no one wants the blame because you'll have a huge amount of teenagers a

Agreed it's crazy, but it's a good political move. Everyone agrees we should ban it, but no one wants the blame because you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who will blindly hate you for it. So if you're the one who isn't in charge of the hard-but-good decision (or in Trump's case, if you don't particularly give much of a shit about it anyway) it's easy to just pick the most politically advantageous side.

mandmandam 3y ago
> it's crazy Yes. > but it's a good political move Domestically, maybe, and only in the short term. Internationally, not at all. It makes America look very weak and hypocritical, at a time when America can ill afford to look even worse. > Everyone agrees we should ban it. No, they don't. The media and political classes agree. That's not the same thing. In reality less than half agree, last I checked [0]. > you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who will blindly hate you for it. Blindly? Young people already hate Biden, and it's not because of TikTok. It's the two-faced support of mass murder, the economy, the inequality, the lies, the inflation, the oil drilling, the union attacks, the failure to deliver on campaign promises, etc. [1] Blaming TikTok for that is just an easy wedge. There's nothing smart about it; it's cynical, divisive, and extremely stupid in the long term. 0 - https://www.reuters.com/technology/close-half-americans-favor-tiktok-ban-reutersipsos-poll-2023-08-16/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/close-half-americans-favo... 1 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/young-voters-explain-re-bailing-biden-whether-d-come-back-rcna130186 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/young-voters-...
MisterBastahrd 3y ago
You forgot to switch accounts when you decided to agree with yourself.

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Agreed it's crazy, but it's a good political move. Everyone agrees we should ban it, but no one wants the blame because you'll have a huge amount of teenagers a

by kalverra 3y ago

mandmandam 3y ago
> it's crazy Yes. > but it's a good political move Domestically, maybe, and only in the short term. Internationally, not at all. It makes America look very weak and hypocritical, at a time when America can ill afford to look even worse. > Everyone agrees we should ban it. No, they don't. The media and political classes agree. That's not the same thing. In reality less than half agree, last I checked [0]. > you'll have a huge amount of teenagers and young adults who will blindly hate you for it. Blindly? Young people already hate Biden, and it's not because of TikTok. It's the two-faced support of mass murder, the economy, the inequality, the lies, the inflation, the oil drilling, the union attacks, the failure to deliver on campaign promises, etc. [1] Blaming TikTok for that is just an easy wedge. There's nothing smart about it; it's cynical, divisive, and extremely stupid in the long term. 0 - https://www.reuters.com/technology/close-half-americans-favor-tiktok-ban-reutersipsos-poll-2023-08-16/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/close-half-americans-favo... 1 - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/young-voters-explain-re-bailing-biden-whether-d-come-back-rcna130186 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/young-voters-...
MisterBastahrd 3y ago
You forgot to switch accounts when you decided to agree with yourself.