Given how the American electorate managed to completely memory-hole January 6th I’m not at all convinced that the TikTok ban will be electorally salient in even two years time
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Oh you underestimate the Corporate media’s noon stop effort to blame the Democrats in order to advance the rightwing agenda of oppression, intolerance and adulation of the rich.
January 6 was memory holed because of the assymetry in the information environment due to the deluge of right-wing propaganda. That asymmetry still exists.
You're probably right about Tiktok but I think it was very easy to memory-hole January 6th when even a lot of the politicians who had come close to possibly being murdered in it did not act like it mattered
And that goes both for the Republicans who, after the initial shock wore off, decided to just forget the whole thing, and Democrats just letting the investigations into Trump bob along at their own pace for four years
I don't think perp-walking Trump as soon as his term ended would have ended the matter by a long shot but it would have been impossible to deny it mattered, instead things were just allowed to meander and there was space for MAGA propaganda to make headway
Maybe a better example is how in 2021 the Biden Admin got enormous amounts of flack for mask and vaccine mandates - because Americans and the media class especially don’t like even mild inconveniences or social obligations - and now literally no one remembers or cares
I mean, it's subtext now because no one wants to talk about all that, but if Donald Trump winning the popular vote isn't a good part of the US loudly saying fuck you to the very idea of social obligations then I don't know what is
Unquestionably, main question is what happens when this runs into the reality of the Trump agenda because it's not really the solipistic consumerist paradise a lot of his voters clearly want and often think they are getting.
I think the real case for Tiktok not mattering in the long run isn't 'young Americans are stupid' (even if they are), but 'Trump might be about to unleash chaos'
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