If politicians from both parties agree on something like this, the reason probably isn't what they're telling us...
It's usually because a donor that gives to both parties told them to
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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It's scary how effectively AIPAC has captured the US Congress.
Americans should lobby their government to give them money and then take that money and us it to lobby them for more money. Seems to work for AIPAC
we must keep spreading the word even without tiktok. remember that pixelfed has features parity now
Not to cast dispersions on the everything starts with the jews in Israel narrative, but didn’t most of the political movement to force the sale of US TikTok to a US owner and the current law to do so long predate Oct 7 and the more even distribution of support shown on TikTok months afterword. Like I hate to break it to you but congress, especially this congress and the maze of think tanks that draft their laws, just arn’t that fast and efficient at implementing new policy.
Do you think that Israel just sprang into existence on Oct 7th? I am not going to say the Tik tok has anything to do with Israel, but just because congress was muttering about Tik Tok before Oct 7th, doesn't absolve Israel. It is entirely possible that Israel didn't like Tik Tok before, It's also possible that Israel was ambivalent about TikTok before, but then when Israeli atrocities were shared on the platform, now Israel wants it banned.
No I don’t think Israel sprang into existence on Oct 7. I’m not sure how you could even get that from my comment. The entire theory we are talking about is however predicated on the idea that the public sentiment on Tiktok about Isreal’s response to Oct 7 is what primarily drove the current law, so one would expect the cause the theory blames to have occurred before the effect, not after.
AIPAC has been remarkably successful this election season. As a relatively unified body, their ability to rally political support is much higher than Congress as a wholem
Not to cast dispersions
Aspersions, not dispersions.
on the everything starts with the jews in Israel narrative
It is anti-Semitic to conflate Israel with "The Jews".
didn’t most of the political movement to force the sale of US TikTok to a US owner and the current law to do so long predate Oct 7
No. The bill didn't even exist until March 5th, 2024.
Like I hate to break it to you but congress, especially this congress and the maze of think tanks that draft their laws, just arn’t that fast and efficient at implementing new policy.
Look up the details on Juneteenth becoming a Federal holiday. Congress moves with lightning speed when it pulls its heads out of its asses.
Yes. Let's not make up reasons to hate Israel when there's so many already.
This particular one also feeds into the antisemitism narrative, if we take it up falsely, like was done here.