Have you seen the “leadership” here in the US? I’d say that’s pretty suspicious news if anything, and would consider it dangerous and traitorous.

Just take the humans out of the equation, completely, and let the earth take care of itself.

Just getting us peasants prepared to not have air travel available to us.

So, either 90% of our admin is in on the coup and just doing little grand standing actions like “refusing DOGE”, or they refused and the Russians found out about their families and sent a strongly worded letter saying it’d be a shame if something happened to their family.

I can see option two being the more likely case, but the cynic in me is saying these people are all in on it and there will be no one but the peasants to fight for their rights.

Oh, so like every venue that he’s ever been to, where he said he’d pay, and then didn’t? Big surpise Pikachu face over here, let me tell ya.

I’m glad it is, truly. I just wish I would’ve known sooner so I could join…

Hearing about this 4 days before it was going to happen just seems like poor planning…

You need a solid month at the very minimum if you really want people to see, prepare, and be there…

Looks tired and WEAK. SAD!!!

I know. Most people are happy to be blissfully ignorant though, so the numbers would be very hard to get.

Since you began with the silly assumption that the words “a lot of you” specifically signaled you out, when I was speaking generally, I see no reason to continue.

Right…

Great convo, FlyingSquid. You used to be one of my favorite people on here, but after Trump got reelected, you’ve gone quite a different direction.

I hope the rest of your day gets better, man.

Anything on the rest of the points I made…?

Not once, not one single time while using the app, have I ever come across the app pushing Chinese propaganda.

I understand a lot of you, who have never even tried to give TikTok a chance mind you, don’t fully understand that once YOU curate YOUR algorithm, it becomes 90% only what YOU want to see. Trust me, I used to be one of you. I thought it was the dumbest thing to get on an app to watch people do dumb things, or to dance.

I had a partner at the time who would send me TikToks, and one day they sent me something that really impressed me. It was a very well done explanation of an animal, I can’t recall which right now. I was VERY impressed by his explanation of this animal I had never even heard of. So, I made one and followed this person.

I got LOADS of dumb shit thrown my way at first, but I told the algorithm I didn’t want to see these videos, and then… I get 90% of videos targeted towards things I like such as: activism, home improvement tips and tricks, tech related (videos about networking, good alternatives to programs that are ran by shitty people, etc.), skits that I find funny, and others who feel the same way I feel about this world and the way it is currently running. I had always felt like I was one of very very few people who care about these things, but TikTok showed me others who felt the same. People sharing their woes, people actually raising valid points like the Hong Kong protests and even getting millions of views. There is so much more out there than I can type out.

So, while I understand your face palm moment with this person, it is quite funny to always see these arguments of “TikTok bad” when you haven’t even tried to use it, and are only going off of the dumb people who use it and show/like dumb things. Dumb people post on YouTube, but no one talks about how stupid that is. God forbid an app I’ve never used do that too!

No hate, as like I said, I was once someone like you. There’s dumb shit on every platform, even here. You could’ve found out that there were plenty of videos that you would enjoy if you had given it a chance.

And to those who automatically get all patriotic about data and shit, the American social medias are not only worse, but use YOUR data in worse ways than a foreign country can. Not once did TikTok ask me for my location, and only the first time upon opening the app did it request permission for the camera and mic, which I denied, and it never asked again. As far as I know, Facebook/Messenger/Snapchat/Instagram CONSTANTLY want you to give them permissions even if you denied them before.

I don’t expect anyone here to care, because “TikTok bad”, but it is what it is.

Same! I have been able to save money exactly three times in my life, and every time I got to those points, either my car needed repairs for something or new tires, an animal gets sick and needs my immediate attention, or even my own health is at risk.

The universe has never treated me very kindly, although it does throw me some crumbs every once in awhile.

Just wanted to let you know you are not alone!

It couldn’t be all of that deregulation going on in the world, or the fact that the “people” in power don’t give a flying fuck unless you’re handing them sacks of cash… right?

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We truly live in some nightmarish times I’m afraid…

The words in the article literally disgusted me. We have a person who is willing to sell out this country, harms hundreds of thousands if not millions of innocent people, and a fucking moron to boot, being talked about like he was some underdog who had a witch hunt placed on him. Literally made me sick to my stomach.

Oh no! We need to take care of those criminals! They’ve gotten away with their crimes for way too long!

People have the memory of a fucking brain dead goldfish. It is so frustrating, it makes me want to pull my eyeballs out.