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Uh, yeah it’s the same president.

It’s only been 8 months.

So you’re like, super uninformed?

Guess your little inaccurate tantrum bears that out.

Just to blast apart your irrelevances there, 1) Biden admitted that he was wrong about the babies as soon as he found out he was wrong about the babies due to faulty intelligence. 2) With complete non-involvement from the US, israel has enough other allies and stockpiled ammunitions to have started and continue this genocide for years(as they have been doing for the last half century); the fact that you don’t know this bears out your ignorance and renders your plaintive cries immaterial.

I know you feel safe on the bandwagon, but you might want to read a little before you start making things up.

I do. They are delivering hundreds of tons of aid, even if netanyahu and the IDF are being real pieces of s*** about letting it get delivered.

It helps biden’s image, but to call it a “public relations distraction at best” is absurdly narrow-minded and dismissive.

Bummer, I didn’t downvote you.

I think that’s the nature of the beast here, don’t take the fake Internet points too seriously.

The phrase “privacy nightmare” gets thrown around a lot, but an online service taking pictures of your screen every few seconds does not sound worth the risk of exposure of personal information.

As for someone needing physical access to your device in order to access those screenshots, there’s no way that’s correct.

If they’re locally stored on your machine, those screenshots can be accessed by an intruder.

Seems like a long walk for an extremely limited scope of benefit.

Drowning a baby in bathwater.

What is the stated reason for this proposed function?

This is the first I’ve heard of this terrible and invasive idea.

You haven’t entered a discussion, you’ve cried incredibly short-sighted neoconservative talking points that I’ve completely taken apart in my other reply to you.

I attacked your ridiculous comment, not your character, unlike your personal insults.

You’re labeling me a “reactionary” because I didn’t call you any of the slurs you listed.

You might want to sit in that a while.

Actually, I have time, so let’s dismantle your comment.

"Keeping thieves and robbers from entering your house is not, ‘immobilizing yourself.’ "

Nobody said it is.

“The idea that America would be immobilized by taking care of itself instead of carousing around with the rest of the world is just silly.”

Something nobody said again, but:

Thinking that having literally enough land to fit people and resources to perpetuate some contemporary level of technology ignores all of history and every metric of national success.

You know who had overabundant physical resources and separated themselves from other civilizations?

Incans.

“Canada could also seal off its borders and in a thousand years from now still be going strong.”

So we ignore Canada’s transportation imports, machinery imports, electronics imports, plastics imports, energy imports， services that alone account for 1/3 of Canadian GDP, then Canada will “go strong”?

5 winter months a year without cars, oil or modern manufacturing to compensate for the weather, not to mention financial services, infrastructure services, science in every form; they’re sunk.

Oh and we can’t forget that you are wishing away Canadian exports, which also account for 1/3 of Canadian GDP.

Your canadian isolationist whim has zero legs to stand on and 1.5 trillion dollars of debt annually.

“International relations are the cause of war” in the same way that air is slowly poisoning you to death.

Such a zoomed-out, irrelevant statement ignores literally every significant factor of conscious reality.

There are two hundred ish countries.

Show me the thriving utopias that refuse to interact with any other countries.

You’re arguing the international merits of “separate but equal” while ignoring how much the United States and other countries have benefited from open borders.

You are wrong top to bottom here on every short-sighted jingoist allegation.

“Afraid of your neighbor’s dog? Never leave your room, add a harness to your bed and strap in, wear plate armor at all times”.

Not exactly practical.

There are ways to improve security without immobilizing yourself.

Blocking the widespread distribution and use of an app that sends personal and national data to a hostile government actively collecting and using that data to conduct digital and electoral attacks is not immobilizing, it’s a simple step with zero downside that safeguards hundreds of millions of people.

Yikes, what a flawed set of premises.

" What if Canada did the same thing to the US? They did!"

No, they didn’t. Canada tried to boost Canadian media presence on American streaming platforms.

Making sure gooby gets an international viewing is very different from transmitting information to an overtly hostile government known for cyber attacks on its international peers.

“The platform isn’t a national security threat”.

It’s a fact that the app TikTok is based off of, Douyin, sends the private data of every user straight to bytedance, owned in powerful minority stake by the Chinese government and that tiktok did the same thing with US user data until they promised they stopped a couple years ago.

As of January 2024 however, whoops, US citizen data(names, birthdates, location) is still being sent back to bytedance: https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-pledged-to-protect-u-s-data-1-5-billion-later-its-still-struggling-cbccf203?mod=followamazon

It’s not some baseless concern, it’s a national security consequence against data disclosures that were already carried out and have continued to this year despite assurances 2 years ago that data leaks to bytedance are not happening.

“Instrument of soft power”

Marvel movies becoming super popular internationally is an example of soft power. Gathering the personal information of users with a continuing precedent attacking US digital infrastructures and democratic institutions is not soft power, it is hostile statecraft.

I am not a proponent of monolithic tech companies nor am I particularly aligned against international competition in tech supremacy, but this ban isn’t about theoretical cultural competition.

This tiktok ban is about the recent gathering of personal information that can be used to assess and attack digital infrastructures and electoral behaviors by entities that are continually attacking digital infrastructures and electoral processes, entities focused on consolidating power not within some international free market of soft cultural influence but by gathering and consolidating power and using that power to forward state ambitions.

Just so you know, I’ve always been a huge fan of you people.

You might want to go climb up to the top of this thread, that’s not what this thread is about at all.

My simple example one can easily extrapolate from is a response to a commenter claiming that sanctions won’t work against China because they are strict, but if the US treated China like a parent treats their child, manipulating and urging them onward with soft encouragement, the US could get that they wanted from China without the need for sanctions.

My point is that if even the word “yes” is not directly translatable in Chinese languages, and they have a couple tens of thousands of words, and China has an entire historical set of behaviors and culture separate from the US with unique calls and responses, it’s insulting and unreasonable to expect a desired response using manipulations that work differently in different cultures.

Separately, you haven’t demonstrated much capability in either language you’re theorizing about and as a result haven’t earned that trust.

Idk, I generally just gave an eyebrow raised whenever I read a political nyt article, I’m perpetually aware that the nuances or implications in the article too be important to pay attention to.

Or a largely reliable news source with certain red flag issues

Well, if you have an unrelated McDonald’s anecdote…

Your grasp on either these languages or the main premise of the argument is sorely lacking.

To humor you, if you truly believe that you can ask in English “do you like ice cream?” and expect to receive the answer " I like it", then we’ve determined which language you understand less.

Then again, The Chinese noun and verb for love is "爱“, not the McDonald’s phrase you quoted, so maybe you don’t understand either language as well as you would like.

But hey, you know McDonald’s lore, so there’s that.

Very nice of you to add that in to your admission that you’re incorrect, thanks.

I appreciate your admission of guilt.

And accept your continued congratulations!

Haha,yea. You should definitely wear a badge.

Thanks again

Still no evidence?

Keep up those fabrications, thank you for admitting I’m right again.