LOL, it’s actually impressive how hard he’s working to chase away young voters. Gotta respect the tenacity. - ThreadSky

theferocity.bsky.social • 308 days ago

LOL, it’s actually impressive how hard he’s working to chase away young voters. Gotta respect the tenacity.

Reposted from Phil Lewis

Biden has signed the bill that requiring TikTok to be sold or banned in the U.S.

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dopegirlfresh.bsky.social•308 days ago

he doesn’t want to win, I don’t think he plans to win.

gregoryaight.bsky.social•308 days ago

And we're going to need to persevere the Dem chorus of, "They don't vote anyway, so...," as if there is not a power dynamic and direction of causality.

marvmadethat.com•308 days ago

Every time I almost have myself talked into voting at all he pulls some shit like this

murbssox.bsky.social•308 days ago

Oh whatever. Geez. If you’re voting based on the viability of TikTok you’re missing a plethora of more important issues.

I agree this is a dumb decision, but overreact much?

zombiscribe.bsky.social•308 days ago

We are currently living through an ongoing genocide that the powerful is trying to suppress information about. Many people, both those giving and receiving information, have cited how important TikTok is in getting that information out.

That feels pretty important… 🤷🏻‍♀️

theferocity.bsky.social•308 days ago

Young voters continue to say that the genocide is their top voting issue. I’d argue, given the way TikTok has helped disseminate info about Gaza, this feels — to them — like an added and strategic slight.

nazishmunch.bsky.social•308 days ago

Maybe because it is? 🤔

TikTok has the potential to disrupt democracy. FB and Twitter literally already did that and no one is talking about dismantling them.

knaas.bsky.social•308 days ago

And nobody did a thing except to make those platforms even worse.

Who uses those platforms? Older voters.

ziebra.bsky.social•308 days ago

It's a variation on the scene in Animal House: "China can't disrupt our democracy! Only American brands can disrupt our democracy!"

legalminimum.bsky.social•308 days ago

Maybe he’s heard too many people at the far end of the horseshoe say they’re never voting for him to care what they think?

nyjanelane.bsky.social•308 days ago

I’d argue that Biden is just another old white guy who is never going to prioritize earning the votes of millions of young people (or POC, or women, or LGBTQ+) over the dozens of votes from other old white guys that he thinks might be persuadable. Our votes don’t have the same value to him.

legalminimum.bsky.social•308 days ago

This is the correct take. I don’t think what I said is true BTW, but I do think it’s plausible.

nyjanelane.bsky.social•308 days ago

Oh, definitely. And we are all blinkered by our own experiences. No matter how many millions of us there are, Biden doesn’t know anyone *personally* who disagrees with him strongly about Gaza, so it’s easy to dismiss.

kwertzy.bsky.social•308 days ago

would have been cool if it wasn't sneak-packaged into aid for Ukraine.

pinkgodzilla2.bsky.social•308 days ago

He knows the TikTok part goes straight to court and wont be enforceable. This gets the funding across the line. Should come out and say the poison pill part didn’t work because charcoal and emetics are available via the courts to deal with it.

ssddftp.bsky.social•308 days ago

"Gonna take gen z's favorite thing on earth away that they're using to give me free campaign advertising, should be good for election day" -Joe Biden I guess.

actuallyabelle.bsky.social•308 days ago

A friend sent me an article about it just now and I literally yelled “oh, FUCK OFF” at my phone.

bisexualkaiju.bsky.social•308 days ago

I think the man unironically wants to lose and this is his way of "quiet quitting."

pradaprada.bsky.social•307 days ago

As President Biden cheers TikTok ban, White House is quietly courting TikTok influencers as 2024 election nears, visitor logs reveal

https://prada.substack.com/p/tiktok-ban-between-gaza-and-decoupling

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