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lol PLEASE don’t fall for the “they’re banning TikTok bc the Zionists are controlling the media and don’t want people to know the truth about Palestine!!” shit

My guys it’s literally a national security/international relations tiff between the US and China. The ban is fundamentally flawed—not because they’re oppressing “free speech”— but because the US wants to set a precedent to seize or ban Chinese companies. It’s sinophobia, absolutely, but acting like this is a free speech issue or an example of “Zionist” media control (just say Jews, your antisemitism is so obvious at this point) is laughable. US politicians going after TikTok has been ongoing for far longer than the current crisis in Palestine. The push to ban TikTok has its roots in the Trump administration, so there’s been political momentum for over 4 years now.

Social media companies are not venues for protected free speech! They’re profit-seeking corporations and don’t give a damn about free speech if it gets them money. You’re already censoring your speech on TikTok for fuck’s sake. If I have to see one more post about “Zionists are controlling the media!” from someone that regularly types “unalive” instead of “kill” and has to put a 🐓emoji when they mean “cock” I’m gonna scream.

addendum: this post is taking off so I just want to say that for the record I am not a Zionist but it’s fucked up that some of you assume I am because I called out antisemitism. You don’t get to ignore antisemitism because you have an assumption that any Jew calling out antisemitism on the left is a Zionist. Do better.

And if you want a timeline of the TikTok ban please see this article from Axios:

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An American friend asked me yesterday “What is it like in Israel now?”

I contemplated for a moment and then responded 'Imagine 9/11 but with a MAGA administration and that guy with the fur and horns from the capitol attack as cabinet member. There’s an Iraq-style war but it’s not in Iraq, it's in Queens. There is no US constitution and RBG rose from the dead to represent the US in The Hague'.

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1989 (taylor’s version)

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local woman relieved and embarrassed to report that the task she had been postponing for two months ended up taking a grand total of 4 minutes to complete

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Israel has no negotiations in place for hostage exchanges, prompting family of the dead and kidnapped to accuse the government of abandoning them (especially harrowing since many have been harassed and attacked in public by likudniks and their thugs)

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bloodlust is the best word in the english language. she has everything. sex. violence. assonance. who can compare.

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young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway

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unpopular opinion maybe but waking up to rain on a quiet weekend is quite literally the most magical thing in the world

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love is stored in the fictional couple i’ve gotten overly invested in

#Malex

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US disabled folks make sure you’re getting your meds, chain pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS are striking this week with a possible wide scale strike starting Nov 1st

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The Republican Party suddenly starting to attack Taylor Swift after she gets 100, 000 young people registered to vote is a major red flag about then, tho.

Like, why are you mad at her? What did she do wrong? Voting is good.

Unless you just don’t want young people to vote.

But that would make horrible anti-democracy people who know your ideas are outdated.

Which, of course, you aren’t.

Right?

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MARK HOPPUS & TOM DELONGE Blink 182 - World Tour 2023 (Full Updates)

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Tis the season, y'all! 👻 🎃 🤠

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

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btw guys, ublock and youtube have been in an arms race for the past few weeks so circulating filter lists is pretty useless since youtube gets wise to each one in a matter of days. what you should actually do is remove all your custom filters related to youtube and then force update your filter list whenever you see the anti-adblock pop up again

#internet stuff #useful #YouTube