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This is not satire / Photoshop / etc. It is authentic and intended to be serious:
The full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...e-white-house/
An excerpt: "The White House has been closely watching TikTok’s rise as a dominant news source..."
How long do you figure before Braineack and Bajingo start referring to TikTok as "the mainstream media?"
The full article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/techn...e-white-house/
An excerpt: "The White House has been closely watching TikTok’s rise as a dominant news source..."
How long do you figure before Braineack and Bajingo start referring to TikTok as "the mainstream media?"
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I'm more concerned about all my dark-web comrades believing that Putin is a good guy simply because democrats/media do not like him -- and have used him in smear campaigns against people they don't like.
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Two-part reply:
1: How did you interpret me saying "The US government is telling TikTokers what to say" as me saying "State propaganda is good?"
2: Regarding my employer... don't they do the opposite of what? I literally am not sure what you're asking, given how confused I am by attempting to divine the meaning of your mis-quotation of me.
Don't shove words in my mouth and I won't do the same to you.
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You already are a crazy conspiracy theorist, but that's completely unrelated to my observations concerning TikTok. This was aimed at you & Brainey's increasing propensity to refer to social media platforms and blogs which have no journalistic aim at all as "the mainstream media." That's separate from the conspiracist thing.
That'd be like me accusing you of being "dismissive" about forced vaccination. Calling attention to something you disagree with is the opposite of being dismissive.
I am so tempted to make a gay-rape joke here.
No, I wrote: How long do you figure before Braineack and Bajingo start referring to TikTok as "the mainstream media?"
You already are a crazy conspiracy theorist, but that's completely unrelated to my observations concerning TikTok. This was aimed at you & Brainey's increasing propensity to refer to social media platforms and blogs which have no journalistic aim at all as "the mainstream media." That's separate from the conspiracist thing.
You already are a crazy conspiracy theorist, but that's completely unrelated to my observations concerning TikTok. This was aimed at you & Brainey's increasing propensity to refer to social media platforms and blogs which have no journalistic aim at all as "the mainstream media." That's separate from the conspiracist thing.
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I do not personally credit Jen Psaki with having sufficient clairvoyant powers to dictate what is and is not mainstream media.
I do believe that she knows where people are getting their news from. Especially the places where the DNC doesn't have control, TikTok, 4chan, I funny, the Donald website. You know they would very much like to control TikTok the way they control Twitter and Facebook.
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Wait a sec... Wasn't there just an article a few weeks ago which told us that a small nuclear war would actually be beneficial in terms of climate change, because of the shielding effect which, during the cold war, we referred to as nuclear winter?
Yes, here it is:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nucle...rming_n_828496
Forget the science, trust the opinion columnists.
Yes, here it is:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nucle...rming_n_828496
Forget the science, trust the opinion columnists.