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Biden better not ban TikTok! [1]

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Date: 2023-03-28

Honestly, I think TikTok is one of the absolute dumbest websites on the Internet and I never have and never will use it, but with that caveat aside I think it is completely disgusting and extremely disturbing that their is such a “Bipartisan” consensus in favor of banning it. I understand why racist Republicans who are shilling the “New Cold War” narrative over the Yellow Peril/Red Scare “China threat”, and who are vengeful against anything associated with Young Progressives but it is frankly pathetic that half the Democrats (sadly including Biden himself) seem to be willing to join in on this sh**t, due to being scared of being accused of being “ChiCom puppets”.

Sadly, the Republicans are still going to absurdly accuse Democrats of being controlled by “Communist” China no matter how much they cowardly parrot Racist Republican Yellow Peril/Red Scare “China threat” bullsh**t, despite the fact it was the Republican Richard Nixon who normalized relations with China in 1972, and it was Republican George W Bush who let China into the WTO in 2001, thus causing the outsourcing of millions of high-paying Unionized Factory jobs to Chinese Sweatshops which Republicans gleefully cheered on as a wonder of the “Free Market” and “Free Trade” until Trump (who himself has bank accounts in China and made all his sh**tty hats, ties, and shoes in Chinese sweatshops) did a 180 in 2016 and started promoting the Yellow Peril/Red Scare “China threat” bullsh**t in order to win gullible Midwesterners (who never got their jobs back as even if/when the US decouples it’s supply chains from China, they will just shift production to Indian sweatshops or have it fully Automated) and create a scary Non-White/Western/Christian “Communist” bogeyman to justify turning the US into a Far-Right Fascist dictatorship, along with the Ironic fact that China is no longer Communist anymore and instead has the same Neoliberal Capitalist economic policy, draconian treatment of minorities, and Authoritarian One-Party political system that Republicans want to create in the US ironically using the fear of “Communist” China.

Finally, if the Democrats (including Biden) go along with this, they will tragically be implementing the same internet censorship policies that China themselves have, will be giving Republicans the toolbox they need to censor the internet of all Progressive content if they win in 2024 and subsequently attempt to turn the US into a Putinist-style Far-Right Fascist dictatorship, will be eliminating a key tool used by Young Progressives to get out the vote, and will cause millions of young Progressive voters to sit out of the election and torpedo Biden’s reelection over the US government’s draconian efforts (Senator Warner’s “Bipartisan” bill will literally throw people in prison for 20 years for using TikTok or any other website from a country Neocons don’t like, essentially shredding the First amendment) to shut down most social media with this and the related “Bipartisan” Section 230 repeal (I will still vote for Biden no matter what because he is the obvious Lesser Evil to any Republican, but many young people I know have said this TikTok ban and the related Section 230 repeal will make them sit out of the 2024 election in mass), 🤢🤮!

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