A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Package a TikTok bill along with aid for Ukraine, Israel AND Taiwan? Even lumping the aid bills together for 3 different countries is odd but the hell does TikTok now have to do with any of it? This is a weird system you guys got there.

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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      8 months ago

      Bernie Sanders has been saying for 30 years that the bill is too damn long! Representatives get very limited time to read bills so they usually don’t and just vote along party lines. This is a form of deception and it’s intentional.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      They’re taking clues from Hungary. Our “child protection” (sic!) law bundled a pedophile registry (which is useless at best) alongside the censorship and de facto ban of sex education in schools, so Fidesz and Mi Hazánk (Fidesz satellite party which is a bit more honest about it being far-right) called the opposition pedo-defenders for not voting yes for it.

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      8 months ago

      Hahaha you should see our omnibus bills. They’re THOUSANDS of things bundled. It’s a complete joke.

      Even this one will likely have little things unrelated added. It’s wild how much is in these bills.

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      8 months ago

      the hell does TikTok now have to do with any of it?

      Military spending bills will benefit the military industrial complex, and banning TikTok will benefit the military industrial complex.

    • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      It sucks I know, but if it gets Ukraine aid passed, lump in everything together. That’s the most important piece of legislation needed right now and we need it to pass.

      • small44@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Ukraine at least has an army to defend itself, so i would rather see neither have aid than bith Israel and ukraine having aid

      • Woozythebear@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        How does aid for Ukraine change the fact I work 50 hours a week and can’t afford a studio apartment?

        • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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          8 months ago

          It doesn’t because you not being able to afford a studio apartment doesn’t plunge NATO into a war.

          I gotta be honest, this is probably the stupidest comparison I’ve ever heard.

            • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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              8 months ago

              Ukraine is a major global food supplier. The war has directly impacted food prices. And if Russia succeeds, it will only encourage more conflict of this kind. And that’s ignoring the possibility that this will escalate into an even larger conflict because Putin decides that NATO’s resolve is weak enough that article 5 is no longer a plausible threat.

              Also, that stupid argument applies just as much to funding schools, cancer research, fighting climate change and basically all other functions of government that serve the public good. We should do more to address economic issues, but that doesn’t mean we should stop doing everything else.

            • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
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              8 months ago

              Have you tried turning your job off and turning it back on again after 15 seconds? Worked for my wifi.

    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      TikTok is controlled by the CCP which will happily push propaganda that impacts all three countries.

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      8 months ago

      China is the one aspect that unites all three. They are supporting Russia in their invasion of Ukraine, they are running a massive pro-Hamas disinformation campaign on social media, they are ramping up for an invasion of Taiwan and TikTok is their most effective propaganda and espionage tool to date.