alcoholicorn
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- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 16 hours ago:
No I’m not, you’ve been misunderstanding me from the start.
Tiktok does not amplify views that make the US look bad, it demotes them. That demonstrates that china is not using tiktok to influence Americans because they would want the opposite.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 21 hours ago:
Amplifying shows of division in a country promotes the view that said country is flawed and weak, in this case along racial lines. China has plenty to gain by showing that.
Exactly! So demoting those videos suggests that China is not using the algorithm to influence America.
That seems entirely speculative. There are plenty of other reasons to hire them. Can you provide evidence for your claim?
No, CIA agents don’t go around saying they’re working for media companies to disseminate propaganda, and media companies don’t broadcast that they take extra care to make sure their coverage lines up with the state department’s narratives.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 21 hours ago:
If it’s being done in a manner that promotes Chinese narratives while demoting American narratives
Spicy in this case means protests, police misbehavior, stuff the US wouldn’t want amplified. The big waves of censorship came in 2020 and 2022. You can search news articles from the time with lots of people wondering why they’re no longer getting that content in their FYPs and content creators getting <1/10th of the views. FB and reddit do the same thing.
I don’t really see why not demoting BLM videos is not in the CCP’s interest; videos that make America seem racist seems entirely in the interest of an Anti-American country.
Demoting the videos that show America’s response to antiracist movements makes America look like the racist country it is.
I also don’t see why hiring former American intelligence operatives demonstrates a pro-American stance, as their motivations for doing so could be to learn about American intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests.
CIA agents living in America who disseminate intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests get charged with treason.
They were hired to help identify and amplify US state department narratives, same reason CNN and Fox hires them.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 22 hours ago:
It is, but the relevance to the discussion is that China getting american’s data isn’t the reason for the ban. Nor is China influencing Americans because they tend to derank politically spicy videos. If China was controlling the algo to make the US look bad, videos tagged BLM wouldn’t have been deranked.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 22 hours ago:
It’s because it pissed off the wrong people. The initial push to ban tiktok was by Trump and republicans after TTers organized a mass RSVP of one of Trump’s events and he spent a lot of money on extra staff and ended up performing in an empty stadium.
That failed and Trump was mocked. 4 years later, it was used to counter zionist propaganda, and that got the democrats on board. Here’s Blinken admitting as much.
Additionally, Insta is TT’s biggest competitor, and FB, which owns Insta, lobbys to the tune of 20M/year.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 22 hours ago:
Except FB and Twitter sell their data to the highest bidder. If China wanted American’s data, they can just buy it.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 3 days ago:
我会打破你的菊花.
The users on rednote are so friendly, teaching us common greetings in Chinese.
- Comment on Plan B 6 days ago:
He’s prepared to kill Buddha.
- Comment on Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years? 1 week ago:
Nah, it’s older than that, watch Deathwish 2 and tell American boomers weren’t itching for an excuse to murder teenagers.
- Comment on Vibes based cooking 1 week ago:
Especially when there are so many absolute garbage recipes by people whose jobs are writing content for magazines or SEO where the only requirement is that the picture of the food look good.
Which is slightly better than our parents learning on recipes designed to use as many ingredients sold by Campbells as possible.
- Comment on Annihilation 1 week ago:
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2: Electric Boogaloo 2 weeks ago:
Why would .world be banned?
- Comment on Behold, world class engineering from Tesla 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Stop making up states 4 weeks ago:
New Jersey isn’t real, it’s just a suburb of NYC and Philly.
- Comment on Stop making up states 4 weeks ago:
NY, Florida, Texas, California are the only states, the rest is Ohio
- Comment on Anon gets plastered 4 weeks ago:
That’s sad.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 weeks ago:
No, I’m saying you should be careful in cases where it could be taken as an antisemitic dogwhistle.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 4 weeks ago:
That’s not the case at all, you can look at my post history if you want to know the things I think.
It’s just you generally want to avoid antisemitic tropes when you’re talking about Zionists because antisemites say Zionist when they mean Jew.
- Comment on Interesting analogy 5 weeks ago:
Depicting Zionists as lizards isn’t great.
- Comment on Good morning I choose durability. 5 weeks ago:
Is europe gonna actually get snow though? Or is it going to continue to be drier?
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 weeks ago:
I couldn’t get past the 4th example of “non-violence” without laughing at how wildly revisionist they are. While each of these had non-violent components, none of them would have succeeded without violence. The housing rights act wasn’t passed until literally every city was on fire.
Here’s a great book detailing the experiences that lead civil rights leaders to understand as much..
The British gave up their occupation of India after a decades-long nonviolent struggle by the Indian population led by Mohandas Gandhi. The Danes, Norwegians and other peoples in Europe used civil resistance against Nazi invasion during World War II, raising the costs to Germany of its occupation of these nations, helping to strengthen the spirit and cohesion of their people, and saving the lives of thousands of Jews in Berlin to Copenhagen to Paris and elsewhere. Labor movements around the world have consistently used tactics of civil resistance to win concessions for workers throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. African Americans used civil resistance in their struggle to dissolve segregation in the United States in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Comment on Looking for answers 5 weeks ago:
non-violent resistance is more often effective
It’s only ever effective when a credible violent alternative is present.
No oppressed person in history has ever gotten their rights by appealing to the better nature of their oppressor.
Civil rights weren’t won when black people asked politely and just moved everyone’s heats at how unjustly they were being treated, when MLK died, he had a 75% disapproval rating, but through repeated demonstrations of power and showing what would happen if their demands weren’t met.
- Comment on 🗣 📢 W A T E R 1 month ago:
Do his other limbs say “fire, earth, air”?
- Comment on Germ Blaster 1 month ago:
But I thought all the piss sterilizes them.
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 1 month ago:
Because calling anyone else an American is insulting.
- Comment on Standoff 1 month ago:
Piquing a demigods’s curiosity, returning to your home city and finding it’s been turned to metal and everyone is fused into the walls/floors.
- Comment on Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff 1 month ago:
Or they can just be boring and do “Huh, we have an array of telescopes, it’s really big.” OK, what do we call the small one?
We’ve increase the frequency for radio, lets call it High Frequency. We’ve increased it further, what do we call it? Even further. Surely it can’t get faster than this. God dammit. Fuck it, just use numbers.
- Comment on Intruder 1 month ago:
There is a difference between not jumping into a burning building and not shooting someone running away from you. Once they’re fleeing, shooting them not self-defense just because you’re afraid they might come back in the future.
If you don’t believe that, when does it stop being self-defense? Maybe they’ll come back a decade from now, surely it’s self-defense to break into their home and kill them in their sleep to protect yourself.
- Comment on Hustle? In this gig economy? 1 month ago:
There is, nobody can be comfortable not knowing whether they’ll be able to afford rent next month.
- Comment on Intruder 1 month ago:
It isn’t like this kid just assaulted a random guy, there was a genuine threat here.
And that threat was running away when the child shot him in the back.
