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  1. What exactly is threatening about TikTok? That it might have malicious code in it that allows the Chinese government a backdoor into a device? Then don't let anyone who is in a governmental position or government contractor to have the app on their devices (they've already done this). How does banning this app increase our security? Another one is just going to take its place. It's no different than the ban guns argument, imo. No realistic ways to implement and only hurts people abiding by the law. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4468159-speaker-johnson-on-national-security-threat-there-is-no-need-for-public-alarm/ Congress actually showed us last month how that process would work (link above). A small congressional subcommittee would be shown the evidence of the offender. President/DOJ/NSA/FBI could choose to classify as much of this as they want. Someone on the committee could raise the alarm that "Hey, maybe we should let the public know what's going on." But then nothing ever comes to light because someone wants it all hush hush. Congress will never vote on said action, it's just decided behind closed doors. Fuck that. I have one sided bigotry toward anyone who isn't an American citizen. You value the rights of Israelis over your own. That's the difference between me and you.
  2. You care more about the rights of Israelis than your own as an American. That is how our priorities are different.
  3. And somehow this is your takeaway. It's all so tiresome.
  4. This is how it works every time! They pick the scary thing of the moment and get the public to fear it enough to give up their rights 2001 - Islamic terrorism. Patriot Act. Public went along with it. 4th amendment means jack shit now and the NSA can and will monitor everything you do. There have been recent efforts to establish social credit scores of some kind or another, even in the US. 2011 through 2019 - Mass shooters. Thankfully Obama was not able to pass anything on gun control. But Trump did. No more bump stocks for us, thanks. Liberals continue to push for tougher restrictions to gun ownership. 2018 through 2022 - White supremacy is the biggest threat to the US. We need to monitor these domestic extremists! If you say anything positive about the founding fathers or the constitution, it might be enough to put you on an FBI watchlist. (wish i was exaggerating with this one, but I'm not) 2020 through 2021 - COVID. Better be a guinea pig to an experimental vaccine or you will lose your job. Thankfully SCOTUS ruled this was illegal, I'm not happy that they now require it for anyone in the field of healthcare. You can't go to work, we must lock down to stop it! We need to pressure tech giants into banning/deamplifying those on social media who has a different opinion than the prevailing and government approved theories! 2022 - We need to put all our money into Ukraine. Anyone who is against it is just regurgitating Russian information! We need to demonetize these people from social media and shadowban them. 2023 - We need to send all of our money to Israel. The $15B they've received from us the past 20 years wasn't enough! Anyone who disapproves of Israel's methods is an anti-Semite! We must ban them from campus and pass laws that make it illegal to criticize Israel! It's politicians from the entire political spectrum that have been arguing (often successfully) to take away our rights. It's all so tiresome.
  5. Yes the boomers have their info all over the internet, but the point I'm making is that they're concentrated on Truth. Outside of the fox news comment section, I can't really think of another website that could brag about having that population cornered.
  6. No. Especially this part that gives the president more unchecked power. For everyone saying this law should pass, you need to know that you're giving Biden the power to decide what social networks are and aren't a threat to US national security. Censorship is not a real solution.
  7. He has advertising data of 2 million conservative, retired boomers with too much time and money. I have to imagine that the ROI for advertising on that network is going to be orders of magnitude higher than x/fb/ig/tiktok. Hindsight being 20/20, how did no one come up with this sooner?
  8. This ought to be a case study in censorship and why it does not work. As of Truth Social going public, Trump might have more liquid assets than he's ever had in his entire life. If Twitter doesn't ban him in 2021, he probably doesn't go out and make his own social network. The ministry of truth arguably made him richer than he's ever been. What irony.
  9. "Slightly more rational" fear? Everything costs more and everyone's wallets are being stretched pretty thin. There are very few things that directly correlate to reduced value of labor than being flooded by people from a bunch of nations who have a 10:90% wealth ratio. And you know a lot of that money is not going to stay in the economy, because it will be sent out as remittances to their families. Can't say I really blame the border hoppers for doing what they're doing. And what happens when you get a bunch of poor people that no one wants around? Well, they're pretty much stuck with the poorest people in the country. You throw a bunch of impoverished latinos next to a bunch of impoverished blacks and crime rate goes through the roof. It's hilarious and sad that the white city liberals are cheering on this sanctuary city system, while the impoverished black people are the ones going to their city councils and demanding something be done to stop it. Turns out that you just have to make enough money to live in Lincoln Park and it won't be a problem for you. South Chicago? Don't care. And to be fair, this has been happening since long before Biden or Trump. A high school kid can't even buy a dime bag from a drug dealer without having to worry about if it's laced with some kind of Chinese fentanyl. These seem like pretty rational concerns.
  10. So long as batteries are still dependent on lithium, I see them as a short term band aid and not a long term solution. Unless we figure out concentration of lithium from ocean water, it's going to require an insane amount of strip mining to provide the whole world with an EV. I am more hopeful for the long term future of hydrogen. Toyota's been racing a hydrogen ICE Corolla in Super Taikyu for a couple of years. They're planning on bringing a prototype to Le Mans in the next year. Maybe we see a mass production model in 10-20 years. Ease of access to hydrogen over lithium is what will ultimately push us toward hydrogen ICE. Most importantly, the engines will continue to vroom.
  11. We'll probably be dead by then, too. Readily available lithium is the rate limiting step.
  12. You won't. FFLs still won't sell to them. They can't buy them legally. They'll just bring them in from Mexico or buy them from the black market here. This law literally changes nothing for illegals except that they won't be detained for simply having a firearm (which the Biden admin wasn't really doing anyways). There are laws against illegals being in the country, but the Biden admin doesn't enforce them. The Biden admin EO'd away all of the EOs that Trump used to effectively deport them. So if 2024 rolls around and Trump wins, guess which EOs are coming right back into play. It doesn't matter if they're allowed to own guns, they'll be deported for crossing the border illegally. With a hypothetical Trump presidency, these people are being deported AND you now have the legal precedent that you can't restrict guns in the three ways I've mentioned.
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