#I hate Biden too

[thattheater-kid]

Yeah I’m taking a social media break.

With the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, as well as just personal crap I’ve been dealing with, I think it’s just best for my mental health to take a break. I already have a headache. I feel sick and anxious. I don’t know how long it will be before I’m back, but I will be back.

All I have to say is please vote in November if you’re American and of age, and if you’re not please urge any of age American friends you have to vote.

[wolfieisacat]

I feel i need to remind you all of something:

If Biden loses this year, it’s completely over. Trump isn’t going to support Palestine. BEST case scenario, he turns down the aid. Not stops, turns down.

So who do you want: the guy who’s going to support Israel and keep gay marriage, abortions, etc. legal, or the guy who’s going to support israel and take away everybody else’s rights.

[tallon-underworld]

If YOU watched it, you’d know that Biden didn’t say anything about “putting Japan and Korea back together”; the Twitter account was misquoting him.

The ACTUAL quote from Biden is “I’m going to GET Japan and Korea together again, after essentially having hostilities toward one another since the end of World War II”. Judging by the phrasing, it sounds like he’s just talking about improving relations and alliances between the two countries - likely referring to a summit he’s attending this month with their leaders:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-plans-trilateral-summit-with-japan-south-korea-july-japanese-media-report-2024-04-01/

He said WHAT

[kcdodger]

If voting didn't work, they wouldn't gerrymander.

If voting didn't work, Donald Trump would have won 2020.

If voting didn't work, they wouldn't try to rig elections.

If voting didn't work, you wouldn't see Republicans bitch about mail in ballots.

If voting didn't work, you wouldn't see Republicans try to stop minorities from voting.

Get your head out of the fucking sand. Go vote when the time comes.

Because you aren't going to raise arms, and everyone knows it.

[snippydippy]

So, Tiktok's back. After only about ten hours.

When it went down (several hours ahead of schedule, as if plans had to be moved forward), we got a notice praising trump for trying to help the app, and a video from Tiktok's CEO expressing the same sentiment.

This was already a massive red flag to me. Trump was the one who started the TikTok ban idea in the first place. It was literally a part of his campaign after TikTok was used to prove he was lying about his rally attendance numbers.

Despite this, Tiktok has been given a 90-day extension by the Trump administration. This 90-day extension is contingent on a deal already being in motion to sell Tiktok (in full or in majority shares), to an American company.

The CEOs for both TikTok and Meta are expected to be at Trump's inauguration tomorrow. Facebook also started pushing a "link your meta to Tiktok" option the day before the ban took place, and they now have an official Tiktok page after keeping the two companies as strictly separate competitors for years. It is my belief that this all points to Mark Zuckerberg having bought/merged with TikTok. Something that had likely been planned for a while, with last night's brief and early shut-down being a stunt to upset all of us who've come to rely on TikTok for a variety of reasons.

Whether you're one of the 7 million content creators or small business owners who legitimately earned your living off the app, or simply a part of the 170 million Americans (half the fuckin' country) who became attached to it from healthy community interaction, news dependency, or even a toxic addiction to it's quick and easy dopamine (I am a mix of all of these, personally), the ban going into affect last night likely caused you an amount of stress. Anguish, even, depending on your situation.

But now, as of this morning, Trump is suddenly our savior. After about two years of him pushing his opinion that Tiktok should be banned, now one of the richest men in the country and his company stands to benefit from Tiktok sticking around. And so will Trump, with Zuckerberg's money in his pocket.

I'm glad it's back, truly. I love Tiktok and the people I've met there, the communities fostered and the hard-working Americans who've found success on the platform. However, selling to Meta is NOT good.

Zuckerberg is nothing but an elite POS. He does not care about you, his company and all of his apps have ALWAYS been more predatory with your data than Tiktok EVER was. Meta has collected more of it, sold it to more advertisers and private investors with an interest in the public's free-time habits, and has done nothing if not try to monopolize your presence online.

Tiktok's algorithm may end up changing. It may end up having to bend to Meta's whims. Less personalization, more of your data being sold to advertisment that we might see an increase in. Shadow-bans, community muffling, news censorship and political biases being promoted, etc.

I don't know what I suggest doing about this. Even though it would be the best move, I would be a hypocrite to say "remove all meta associated apps from your phone." I can't delete my Facebook/meta account. Not without dedicating a flashdrive or several to saving pictures, videos and posts as pieces of my life from the past 15 years I have been on this website. I know many others feel the same, there isn't really anywhere else we can go. That is by design.

I know RedNote is where a lot of folks went, and I genuinely think the cultural exchange on that app between American and Chinese citizens is a wonderful thing, but I do not feel right about signing up for an app that is explicitly owned by the Chinese government anymore than I would on an app explicitly owned by our own (which, Meta practically is. They just get to hide behind a thin veil of a "private company". One that can pay to control political decisions. Our government is its own private company, but I digress). Bluesky might be the best alternative, but its Twitter-like format is annoying to me, personally.

TL;DR

I guess all of this is just to say; Don't fall for this shit. It's all extremely fishy and smells like Trump raising his approval rating with young voters, and Zuckerberg extending his reach over the way we all connect with each other and raising his net worth. Please stay as aware as you can.

More than just a "haha funny app", TikTok grew to be the most important way that hundred of millions of Americans connected with each other.

It is how WE THE PEOPLE connect. Potentially losing it to yet another leading company in the oligarchy our country truly is, its a blow to all of us, regardless of what political party you identify with.

[doublel27]

Well, while women, I see we have learned nothing yet again. As a fellow white woman who keeps yelling at you, I remain disappointed. The choice to prioritize potential power through the destruction of others in hopes it won’t be us remains high.

For those of us who did vote Democratic. Do not look at other subgroups to blame. As of the latest projections, which honestly I don’t want to trust, it’s 52% of white women who voted for him. 52%

We are one of the largest voting blocks in the US. Between 50-60 million annually. In many states a 5% margin could have been the difference, do you understand?

It’s time to stop avoiding the conversations and the elephants in the room. It’s time to face the fact that a lot of people who said they could support a Black woman publicly potentially couldn’t privately. As they said, your vote is secret, no one has to know. We’re all going down together, even if you think you’re Rose holding onto the door.

[ravenkings]

this probably isn't an original take but i do kind of feel like a lot of the continued resentment of bernie dead-enders towards mainstream dems as well as their seeming sympathy to MAGA is that in 2016, they attempted what essentially amounted to an outside takeover of the democratic party like MAGA did with the republican party, but with the main difference being that the MAGA takeover succeeded and they were able to remake the republican party in their own image whereas the bernie bros failed bc mainstream dems didn't bend the knee, so now the ~~DNC~~ or whatever is the target of most of their ire bc they feel like they were not bestowed what they see as their rightful mandate

[pjharvey-moved]

i'm going to be voting joe biden in the next election bc project 2025 genuinely would make the country actually actively inhabitable to most of my friends and there's a very literal threat of america becoming an actual fascist state but i will be bleeding out of my eyes while i do it

[maeamian]

Well the shoot themselves in the dick brigade got what they wanted let's just hope they were right.

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

I don’t know how y’all are still so invested in the presidential race like theres a chance for us. It’s an absolute garbage circus designed for social media outrage & other countries entertainment idk how y’all aren’t picking that up. After Republicans dug up & paid Amber Rose (because they couldn’t get Hawk Tuah) & Megan thee Stallion twerked for Kamala, I clocked out. I packed up and quit. Y’all have fun stressing over the Orange Ragebait & “”Mamalas”” past betrayals against the working class but couldn’t be me.

I’ll vote, but only because it means an extended lunch break.

[the-scarlet-witch-22]

How mad would Hilary Clinton be if Kamala won the presidency lmaoooo

[adxmanial]

Ok I get that you hate voting and fine fair. But would you stand by and do nothing in the trolley problem? How would that help anything. I just see you attach this element of approval to the act of voting, that just... isn't really there.

I'm not voting for someone supporting genocide hope that helps

[taliejane]

Omfg UK and US 18-25s I'm begging you to vote in the general/presidential election 😭😭😭 young people already don't vote and then to actively abstain (I get it, all your options suck) but then politicians will have zero reason to appeal to you ever! You're entirely excluding yourselves from the conversation! Vote strategically to vote OUT the worst dude but just vote fr

I know they're all doing genocide and it's fucked but like you literally are not preventing genocide by not voting you're just sitting on your hands

[tendergutzz]

I will say, smth I thought was extremely bizarre during campaign season, prior to the election, was how much focus there was on how bad (corrupt/immoral/dishonest/etc) Harris was/is and then absolutely nothing for Trump. Maybe it was taken for granted and assumed that people were already familiar with him as a caricature of evil, but I saw close to zero posts or opinion pieces about his faults. It feels like he gets off scot-free, it feels like another rich white man getting to avoid blame and consequences.

[snekdood]

if you dont vote for biden you're a dumbass who only cares about their image. swallow your shit pride and vote you utter fucking dipshit.

[sophiemariepl]

Western logic towards Eastern Europeans and Eastern European identity be like (mostly Polish but anyway):

Maria Skłodowska-Curie: born from both Polish parents in Warsaw under Russian occupation; despite living for many years in France, still identifies as Polish; names one of the elements she discovered after Poland (Polonium); teaches her daughters Polish language; keeps Polish traditions in her household; supports Polish independence movement

Westerners: Madame Curie, such a great French scientist! Feminist icon, great woman!

Benjamin N*tanyahu: out of his parents, only his father was born in Poland, rest of the family are Zionist settlers; doesn’t even speak Polish (nor Yiddish), his main language is artificially-recreated Hebrew, meanwhile his russian is better than his Polish; doesn’t identify as a Polina (Yiddish for Polish Jew); repeatedly manipulates historical facts regarding the Holocaust, e.g. claiming that the Polish state participated in the Holocaust just like Hungary or France*; despite being basically an American dog, maintains close connections to Kremlin as well, so much that uses his connections to P*tin in election campaign in 2019:

Westerners: OMG N*tanyahu is just a Polish guy! Mileikovski! Go back to Poland!

Me, a an anti-Zionist Pole with Polina ancestry: *rolls eyes so much I can see my brain*

*mind you, I’m not denying any cases of collaboration. I’m just saying there is a difference between institutions of a particular country participating in a g*nocide and the citizens of a particular country joining occupational forces to participate in a genocide.