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TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill
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Nobody really wanted to grapple with the reality. They just saw "Chinese investors mean Communist propaganda means Americans most be protected from the thing". Then Cold War brainrot kicked in and that was that.
A country that fumbles this hard doesn't deserve to exist.
It's the same kind of people who think Socialism means Communism, without realizing that anything funded by taxpayers is already, technically, a socialized knowledge/service/product. That includes the roads their vehicles drive on and the military if you want to put it that far.
One might incorporate principles of the other, but that doesn't make it the other product automatically.
In the meantime, the Poopaganda machine will continue running with the kind of ignorance being shown.
"Socialism is when the government does things" is dumber than thinking socialism and communism are the same thing.