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I tried to tell you guys that this is what the whole TikTok thing was really about. It has nothing to do with data safety considering half the app store is also from Chinese companies with the exact same condition, and no one in Washington wanted to address that.

The mass data leak from the US to China is like water flowing through a sive. Anyone who argues that we should plug up one hole and only one hole is either an idiot or as an alternate motive.

That alternate motive was that TikTok was allowing young people in the US to talk about Israel negatively. So congress went ahead and singled them out, and collapsed their business if they wouldn't comply on the real issue or get bought out by Steven Mnuchin and friends who would definately implement a different content policy

Remember that the first person to be angling to buy this was a US federal employee and departmental officer and his business partners.

This is why you don't let your government single out single business even if they are Chinese. How bad does that look to any other foreign company from any country that congress crashed a business and then tried to offer the wrecked business to a government employee on a discount sale? At least if they don't adopt a policy of banning speech protesting a genocide committed by someone our congress chooses to like (why I don't understand?). Like do you all understand how this is a bad pattern.

The whole idea of attacking TikTok should have been dismissed as an idea on that alone regardless of the details. This is why laws are meant to address behavior and not companies, so it applies to everyone big or small, so congress can't single out or bully companies that differ from congress's political tastes (in this case the political taste that genocide is good when Israel does it).

This is why the phrase "Congress is deciding if {company} will be banned" is something we should have all picked up on as being absurd and unacceptable unless we live in idiocracy. Those are words that should never exist no matter the circumstances. If any of this had been legitimate it would have been "Congress is deciding if sending American personal data to Chinese servers will be made illegal."

But congratulations. No one argued the principle and now you can't say Free Palestine on TikTok because it's hate speech. Because wanting people to be free and or not be bombed is hate speech now. There is no way TikTok would have come to that content policy decision if they weren't bullied. Now we see the point of the bullying.

A new survey conducted by Harvard and Harris has revealed that nearly one-quarter of American voters support Hamas over Israel in the war in Gaza.

The poll, conducted between January 15-16, 2025, sampled 2,650 registered voters and found that 21 per cent of respondents sided with the Palestinian group, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by the US State Department.

The survey revealed stark divisions in American public opinion, particularly across party lines. Among Democrats, 75 per cent expressed support for Israel, while 25 per cent were more inclined to back Hamas.

Republican voters displayed overwhelming support for Israel, with 81 per cent in favour, though 19 per cent still expressed some level of backing for Hamas.

Well, Donald Trump’s inauguration speech was a shit show wasn’t it?

Whilst Trump declared he wanted to be known as “peacemaker and a unifier” his speech of course said otherwise.

In amongst declaring that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the Gulf of America, that the US would only recognise two genders, and announcing a Mars plan that almost made Elon Musk jizz himself into a coma, was something equally as sinister that could be easily missed. Trump doesn’t just hate nonbinary Mexicans, he also wants disabled people dead.

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"It wasn't a Hitler salute! It just looks identical to the salute Hitler did! All you woke cancel culture leftists are getting riled up over nothing!"

In a flurry of first-day-in-office activity, Donald Trump has signed an order to rename the 617,800 sq mile Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s 20,000ft mountain Denali.

The Gulf of Mexico will be renamed the Gulf of America, and Denali, the highest peak in North America, will revert to Mount McKinley – the name it was called before Barack Obama changed it in 2015.

The renaming of the two natural features is to honor “American greatness”, according to a preview of the orders obtained by the New York Post.

Donald Trump on Monday issued “full, complete and unconditional” presidential pardons for about 1,500 people who were involved in the January 6 attack on Congress, including some convicted of violent acts, making good on his promise to act in such cases on day one of his second term.

In addition to the pardons, he issued commutations for more than a dozen cases, shortening sentences for those that he said needed “further research”. Among those whose sentences were commuted was Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia.

“This is a big one. We hope they come out tonight, frankly,” Trump said while signing the pardons in the Oval Office on Monday night after he referred to those convicted as “hostages”.