National debt is completely different than your personal debt.

Personal debt is when you buy a TV with your credit card. National debt is when a country invests into a highway or opens another school.

A closer example is when you take on a personal debt to fund a new business restaurant. You’re still in debt but you’re making money and employing people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_alcyona

It’s not the same. They are significantly bigger here and much more venomous.

The ones found in America are Scutigera coleoptrata.

I wish her the best. I lost my mom to cancer and watching it consume her was the worst.

I live on a tropical island.

I live in Taiwan.

I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.

I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.

I’d rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don’t bite.

Well, China = Bad. No contest there. Uyghurs concentration camps, Tibet, South China sea conflicts, conflict with India, illegal policing in other countries, Taiwan. The list is literally endless.

If TikTok is rolled into that is what we are discussing.

Letting them show you videos they think you want to see is fine. If TikTok was a traditional corp not owned by the CCP.

Now, by default, it seems like they are curating videos to interest you.

WHAT IF the CCP decided to influence your thoughts by giving you a style or tone of a video that starts hinting its OK for China to invade Taiwan. Maybe you like history and they gave you a video showing how sad the CCP when KMT was ruthless animals.

Or you like car videos and they start showing you videos on how Chinese cars are superior to American cars and then conveniently tell you that the US government has a 100% tariff on all foreign electric cars and how you can never drive one unless you vote for X party.

It will seem innocent on the surface, and my example might actually be more intentional than what they will do to the American people.

The thing is, China already weaponized TikTok. A couple of journalists was stalked with data they obtained by TikTok. Why were they monitored? Because these journalists exposed that TikTok was sending data to the CCP. Another example. Tiktok sent a regional notification to users about the upcoming ban and got hundreds of people to call into the representatives, which they did, but without knowing the context. They literally didn’t know why they were calling.

I don’t use the app, do you get to pick each video like you do on YouTube or does it automatically find videos for you?

TikTok is not competing for your wallet. They are competing for your influence and from the sound of it, it’s working.

It’s technically a fruit.

Have you tried skipping breakfast??? /s

They are already infected. Only way to kill a cancer is to nuke it. Ban Tiktok. Fuck the CCP.

Again. Asshole move. So they can make more money.

Now, how about the when TikTok influences Americans to vote to politicians that align with China. And let’s just say… China decides to invade Taiwan and America doesn’t step in to stop it. Now they own 90% of advance semiconductors.

How about after China finishes with the south china seas then gets grabby and decide that Korea is now part of China again. Or when they finally invade India.

Imagine if they had a tool that can influence a country that would stop them.

Meta has zero interest in destabilizing the American democracy. China does. China wants to take over Taiwan. Meta doesn’t.

You see where I’m getting at? It’s in Meta’s best interest to have a vibrant democracy and a strong economy. China does not.

Meta doesn’t give a flying fuck who owns the south China seas. Guess who does and has the tools to influence the people who vote for the politicians that will ignore an invasion to Taiwan?

Sure China probably wants money. But imagine how much money they can have if they influence America not to step into an invasion into Taiwan. 90% of the world’s semiconductors would be under the influence of China.

I completely understand why these companies are assholes, but we ALL understand why they are being assholes. Money. Greed. You gotta keep sqeezing the bottom half of Americans to get that fucking G6.

But Tiktok’s intent is not money. Its power and intel. Power and influence on our American citizens. They don’t care about your money. They want your data and so they can better influence you into thinking how they want you to think.

And what they want you to think directly benefits China. A weaker America is a stronger China. Fuck the CCP.

No because if these silicon giants want to continue to do business in the USA, they would not try and influence the American people for a foreign adversary.

Tiktok’s intent is not to make money. It’s to influence us and use our data to spy on us. Did we all forget about the Forbes journalist that was tracked on Tiktok?

OK, you have this all wrong. Let me explain what the differences is. Tiktok has NO COMPETITION. Tiktok’s ***intent *** is not like the others. The others are competing for ad revenue. Tiktok’s purpose is solely to influence us Americans. Tiktok doesn’t care about your ad revenue or even a sustainable business. They are banked rolled by the CCP.

If META or Google(um…what social media company does google have?) was banked rolled by Russia and had its servers all there and the app was installed on 75% of all Americans, they essentially have eyes and ears on everyone in America. But they are not owned by Russia. Its own by stakeholders who only care about money and how much they will make them.

While I agree that META and Google(really google?) has too much control over our data, at the very least the intent is not to disrupt the American democracy.

Simple. When the bill was first introduced, TikTok blasted a notification telling people to call their congressman to stop them. We then had literal lemmings doing that exact thing without understanding the entire scope of the bill and why it’s being done. Good fucking thing it was mostly younger kids.

Now imagine the same scenario where we have 18 year old voting adults. It can and would be able to sway an election or worse.

It’s a good start tho. Fuck the CCP.

In my humble opinion, China grew too fast and their citizens didn’t get a chance to catch up before getting replaced by robots. Check China’s GDP and how it’s now pretty stagnant and will likely continue to drop while being replaced by automation.

Japan was a similar example of their citizens experiencing dramatic growth after WW2, but unlike China, their citizens caught up and their citizens have a healthy GDP.

Add this plus a bursted housing bubble. They have a big problem.