• @Maggoty
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah and I remember when Bush expressed concern there would be mushroom cloud over New York city. Lawmakers saying vague shit isn’t evidence. Hell politicians saying specific shit isn’t evidence without the evidence. We just spent a year debunking half the shit Biden said about the Gaza war because he insisted on straight up repeating whatever lame excuse the war criminals thought up.

    • lurch (he/him)
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      04 hours ago

      dood. they were only vague in their speeches, then the US congess made a very detailed, specific law mid last year. then tiktok ignored some details of it and got a chance to correct it, but didn’t.

      • @Maggoty
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        04 hours ago

        That law forced a fire sale of TikTok by name. I wouldn’t follow it either, it’s blatantly unconstitutional. The Constitution very clearly, in plain English, bans the practice of punishing specific people and organizations via legislation instead of the justice system.

        This is also like citing the laws against Marijuana when asked for evidence the laws against Marijuana are necessary. Entirely circular. There’s still no evidence there.

        • lurch (he/him)
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          03 hours ago

          tiktok could have just started a US based company and sell US operations to them for $1. and of course they knew that.

          • @Maggoty
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            122 minutes ago

            That is not true. That would still be either a subsidiary or a sell off. In the first case it doesn’t satisfy the law. In the second case it’s a very extreme fire sale, more extreme than was actually expected.