Uh no, we are not saying the same thing.
No one intelligent would say this:
Yeah, he signed a 44 billion dollar deal as a joke
And mean it seriously.
Bronzebeard
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That many carveouts pretty much renders the entire thing pointless.
I meant the claim that this was somehow a good thing, and not a performative "anti-china" bill that was really about cutting out the young people's current venue for organizing against the wealthy's interests, like their criticisms of the genocide in Gaza. China will still get all that info by buying it off the hundred other apps that collect it. If they cared about the data collection, they'd have addressed all data collection.
Except banning vpns would kill the economy immediately. Pretty much every big corporation is utilizing vpns to facilitate their work from home infrastructure. Hell, often even internally. Not to mention state and federal governments also use them. Suggesting they could do that is a joke.
You're not looking very closely then
Yeah, that's where the previous Chinese leaders fled when the communists took over...
He wasn't joking. He signed a binding agreement offering to buy it, and even waived due diligence clause that could have given him an out. It was only after he release it wasn't worth nearly what he stupidly offered that he wanted to back out, but by then was legally committed.
You don't sign official offer documents worth $44 billion as "just a joke". Stop defending his stupidity
So the invader only has to conquer the places that support their puppet candidate the least. Good job, you made it easier for them.
Try thinking things through next time
Yeah but we're talking a different between being on a leash vs a full on, hand-up-the-ass sock puppet.
Point at different things and try to blame what they're doing to them on it.
Joking about this is part of how it slowly gains acceptance. Let's just not