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this is exactly right. he could ban all social media and 1/2 the country would be “yes, visionary looking out for us and our children” :)

phatfish 11mo ago
1/2 the country would be right. Do you not think if social media was disappeared society would be in a better place?
- renegade-otter 11mo ago
  I am not the op, but I do. He would not be banning it for social reasons - he would be banning it as a racketeering operation, and the 1/2 would support it because of that.
dangus 11mo ago
I think this is a lot different than a lot of wedge issues that tend to affect people mostly in theory. Wedge issues are often chosen by the political elite because there isn’t a risk of the dog catching the car effect becoming a major political liability. E.g., overturning roe v wade made a bunch of republican evangelical republican voters grey happy while restricting the lives of a relatively small amount of people. And I know this statement sounds crazy but hear me out and do the math: You have to be a woman (~50% probability), get an abortion (~25% of women in their lifetime) and reside in a state that restricts abortion (about 20% of the population). Multiply those together and you end up with a 2.5% probability that overturning roe v wade has a tangible impact on your life. You can apply this same concept to a lot of today’s hot button topics. In contrast, 1/3 of all adults use TikTok. About 60% of people under 30 use it. Like I said in my other comments, this is comparable to a government shutting down the NFL. It would be a major optics disaster to implement a TikTok ban.
- bdangubic 11mo ago
  bigger optics disaster than being a rapist of young girls?!
  - dangus 11mo ago
    Do you not comprehend what I’m saying? Can you try to read back to me what the substance of my argument is? I’m not debating whether the guy is morally reprehensible. People can ignore that because that doesn’t affect them. Chris Brown is still selling out stadiums because he didn’t personally assault his fans. What does affect people are everyday things like whether their favorite app got banned or whether eggs are affordable.

phatfish 11mo ago

1/2 the country would be right. Do you not think if social media was disappeared society would be in a better place?

renegade-otter 11mo ago
I am not the op, but I do. He would not be banning it for social reasons - he would be banning it as a racketeering operation, and the 1/2 would support it because of that.

dangus 11mo ago

I think this is a lot different than a lot of wedge issues that tend to affect people mostly in theory. Wedge issues are often chosen by the political elite because there isn’t a risk of the dog catching the car effect becoming a major political liability. E.g., overturning roe v wade made a bunch of republican evangelical republican voters grey happy while restricting the lives of a relatively small amount of people. And I know this statement sounds crazy but hear me out and do the math: You have to be a woman (~50% probability), get an abortion (~25% of women in their lifetime) and reside in a state that restricts abortion (about 20% of the population). Multiply those together and you end up with a 2.5% probability that overturning roe v wade has a tangible impact on your life. You can apply this same concept to a lot of today’s hot button topics. In contrast, 1/3 of all adults use TikTok. About 60% of people under 30 use it. Like I said in my other comments, this is comparable to a government shutting down the NFL. It would be a major optics disaster to implement a TikTok ban.

bdangubic 11mo ago
bigger optics disaster than being a rapist of young girls?!
- dangus 11mo ago
  Do you not comprehend what I’m saying? Can you try to read back to me what the substance of my argument is? I’m not debating whether the guy is morally reprehensible. People can ignore that because that doesn’t affect them. Chris Brown is still selling out stadiums because he didn’t personally assault his fans. What does affect people are everyday things like whether their favorite app got banned or whether eggs are affordable.