The US is already there. We arrived about 2-3 months ago.

A gram of prevention is worth 1.6 decagrams of cure.

Yep. She’s talking about changing optics and messaging to something that resonates with the larger ‘I know very little about politics but I still vote’ group of voters.

The headline feels like clickbait.

The question is, will voters learn from this? Will they understand that when the president and his crew are straight up Nazis – and congressional republicans do nothing to stop them because they support a Nazi agenda – that the whole Republican party is now a Nazi party?

There won’t be any “reasonable” Republicans to vote for going forword; they are all Nazis now.

We never could have seen this coming!

^/s

Don’t forget that Obama was also a war criminal, just like the other US presidents in recent history.

Hate.

I disagree. While I will never forgive those voters, I don’t think most of them are lost causes. They’ve been manipulated by the largest, most well-funded misinformation and propaganda campaign ever waged against the American people.

Exercising even the smallest amount of critical thinking skills protects oneself against most of it, but no one is completely immune to misinformation.

Maybe he doesn’t know because he refuses to listen to anyone who criticizes him, banning them on Twitter and calling them paid actors in public events.

Musk is plenty awful for many valid reasons; no need to body shame people for having a small penis.

There’s nothing wrong with trans children getting gender-affirming surgery either, as long as it is under the supervision of a doctor and follows current WPATH guidelines.

Gender-affirming surgeries are the opposite of mutilation.

deleted by creator

Them: Trans people are icky. Kill them all.

That’s the whole thing. It doesn’t matter that trans people aren’t mentioned in the bible. It doesn’t matter that the medical science supports gender-affirming and transition-related care. It doesn’t matter that trans people almost never have an actual advantage in sports. It doesn’t matter that being trans is not a ‘social contagion’. It doesn’t matter that trans people aren’t hurting anyone.

They want to eliminate all trans people. A Montana republican just put up a bill to ban adult trans medical care. That’s trans genocide. Trump banning trans youth care nation-wide is trans genocide.

Republicans are fucking Nazis. Straight up.

This might work if all major news networks and social media weren’t propaganda machines of the maga regime. The administration will blame immigrants or democrats or trans people for every hardship that republican voters experience.

As is tradition.

I encourage you to take a college course from a non-religious university that covers any of the above subjects.

Here is part of the text of the bill:

SEC. 3. Judicial review.

(a) Right of action.—A petition for review challenging this Act or any action, finding, or determination under this Act may be filed only in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

(b) Exclusive jurisdiction.—The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any challenge to this Act or any action, finding, or determination under this Act.

Here is part of the summary:

A challenge to any action, finding, or determination under the bill must be brought with 90 days of the action, finding, or determination.

I read the law, and I disagree with you that the president can simply declare a social media company to be foreign-adversary controlled and shut it down with an EO. At the very least there is an appeals process that would go through DC court of appeals for any accused social media company. I am not a lawyer though, so I could be wrong. Either way, I think it gives the president too much power.

But this doesn’t change the fact that ByteDance is still being manipulated by the president for power and propaganda purposes; that seems pretty clear to me when searches critical of trump came up empty on accounts using US IP addresses, as opposed to non-US accounts or US accounts using a VPN.

We have lost our rights, had our rights restricted, or have had our rights routinely violated on the following issues:

• bodily autonomy – abortion

• unreasonable search and seizure – the federal government (FBI, NSA) digitally track everyone. Cops can legally take your money and property without cause or due process. Cops selectively enforce laws. State attorneys general selectively enforce laws. The TSA (airport security) is arguably unconstitutional.

• torture and indefinitely imprisoning people without charging them with a crime.

• trans people’s right to bodily autonomy, freedom of liberty, equal rights, equal access to healthcare, etc. Florida is forcibly putting trans inmates in with inmates of the opposite-gender and forcing trans people into conversion therapy. Trans people are facing widespread persecution and legislative genocide, depending on the US state. States are trying to make being trans a crime by calling them “sexually obscene”. I fully expect the federal government will try to do the same, as it’s part of the Project 2025 playbook.

• our court system is overall corrupt and corrupt judges do not rule based on facts, science, what the law says, what is morally right, or what is best for the people.

• the right to a speedy trial is being violated. The right to have a public defender adequately represent you when accused of a crime is being abused and violated.

• slave labor is allowed and legal in this country. Prison inmates are allowed daily temporary release to work for private companies but then the prisons and government steal most of their earnings.

• our human right to a clean environment is being violated. Our water, air, and land is being polluted with a lack of regulation and oversight.

• rights of immigrants, asylum seekers, and others is routinely violated and now, once again, millions of people are being threatened with deportation.

• black people have never had equal rights in this country. I can’t even begin to list the extent of their oppression here. Racism is on the rise politically now too.

I could keep listing points for hours, if not days.

The law that banned tiktok was about national security concerns of foreign companies. It does not apply to US-based social media companies.

Trump used an executive order to delay the law by 90 days. This is coercive in nature. It makes Trump look like the good guy to millions of tiktok users in the US for “saving” tiktok. It also lets Trump extort ByteDance via manipulation of TikTok (pushing US propaganda) in exchange for staying in the US market.