• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    I’m not sure how the members of Congress of both parties who voted for the (imo unconstitutional, despite what the court says) TikTok ban expected government control of which media companies are allowed to operate in the US to end in any other way. Did they have fantasies of an apolitical forced takeover? Forced takeovers aren’t generally apolitical things.

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      They didn’t. This is the Peter Theil future. The filthy masses controlled by social media manipulation.

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      Neoliberals and Republicans/maga all just assumed that they’d be personally handed the keys and get to enforce their own biases.

      It’s the same way they both controlled what their respective billionaire owned media said in private, then publicly complained about the other side doing it in public.

      If you want a politician to do the ethical thing. You need to start looking at progression Dems.

      Neo liberals have always just been conservatives who want to be popular. They think alike, that’s why for decades there’s been such a disconnect between Dem politicians and Dem voters.

      Neoliberals don’t represent Dem voters.