Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[benji]

That lesson has already been established for the future in American owned social media. Facebook and Twitter are state owned propaganda and mass surveillance systems

i'd venture that maga was always down for mass deportations

Elon Musk literally spent 45 billion buying the biggest social media app so he could essentially rig the election with ads, bots, doctored videos, photos, etc all in Trump's favor.

Remember, their users are not allowed to post misinformation or conspiracy theories.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cbs-tiktok-says-it-plans-to-shut-down-site-in-the-us-unless-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-forcing-it-to-sell.1078593/page-38#post-134545311

Why else arre they calling a video game company part of the Chinese military!

I'm not saying I buy the DoD's decision on anything but I love how all these dudes think China is just like the United States or any random European country even though it's Chinese law that the CCP is part of every company.

[benji]

Sounds like they should have targeted legislation that limits social media as a whole instead of just banning the Chinese one. They didn't though, because that would affect American business.

Or because it'd be blatantly unconstitutional?

edit: Also the Biden Administration has been going after American social media companies. They were trying to pervert anti-trust law to breakup Meta, Google, etc. They just lost the election so now they can't. (Trump might still though.)

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/cbs-tiktok-says-it-plans-to-shut-down-site-in-the-us-unless-supreme-court-strikes-down-law-forcing-it-to-sell.1078593/page-38#post-134545311

Firstly, I rather dropship my dna, social security number & full Fucking legal name to the Chinese communist party & Xi Jinping personally because I find them more trustworthy than the us goverment, which by the way? why the fuck do so many people have collective amnesia over the nsa Snowden shit show? You know the thing that revealed we were being spied on by our own goverment.

Secondly, private companies like meta are so much better I hear... oh wait! They literally settle a lawsuit last year over capturing data! Like miss me with this shit! This is a clear violation ore of freedom of expression & because America doesn't like china haaving any sort of soft power! Why else arre they calling a video game company part of the Chinese military! Why else are they banning shit! This has nothing to do with safety! NOTHING. it's all about rich Fucks that dont like competition!

thirdly, even if I did agree with TikTok being shit, this is still dystopian as fuck...the fuck is next? First it's China, what's next? Especially if countries don't bow down to trump? All your global apps & entertainment could be declared a "security risk" with no evidence & be banned! Who the fuck wants that!? all of this is scary as shit & needs to be stop here & now. You know the ole saying "give an inch & they'll take a mile."

Dystopian over a Chinese short video app 

[benji]

The reality of China: WHOLESOME AND COZY, EVERYTHING SO CHEAP, NO WORKING TWO JOBS, NOBODY STRUGGLING
Stupid fed sanctioning of a foreign company like every single day of our lives: DYSTOPIAN AS FUCK, TOTALITARIANISM IS HERE

[benji]

The reality of China: WHOLESOME AND COZY, EVERYTHING SO CHEAP, NO WORKING TWO JOBS, NOBODY STRUGGLING
Stupid fed sanctioning of a foreign company like every single day of our lives: DYSTOPIAN AS FUCK, TOTALITARIANISM IS HERE

That entire forum wanting the same thing or far worse done to Twitter or Meta or The Bire or Kiwi Farms or Joanne or... et al: FUCK AROUND, FIND OUT; TALK SHIT, GET HIT; CANCEL CULTURE IS NOT A THING

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/are-democrats-this-bad-at-messaging-and-optics-on-accident-or-on-purpose.1086270/

Prompted by the TikTok ban and how the CEO is openly praising Trump for being willing to work with them which will certainly turn the Gen Z vote more red in the coming years. But, in all honesty, for quite a while I feel like I've been watching democrats make just completely obvious mistakes in messaging and optics for no discernible reason. Kamala made quite a few flubs for example, though I hoped it would work out but here we are. A lot went wrong with Biden and his decisions and the press around him/them.

It's hard to believe that they can really be this bad at messaging and optics. And I'm starting to wonder, are they really? Are they really, truly?

It was a flawless campaign. Flawless. 

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-ban-upheld-by-supreme-court-in-ruling-transforming-digital-media-landscape.1085229/page-11#post-134536350

My girlfriend is crying right now 😳

It's not because of tiktok you numbskull

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

y'all wouldn't need tiktok if vine wasn't killed. 

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

I'm glad the Bire is a CCP approved website. 

[benji]

y'all wouldn't need tiktok if vine wasn't killed. 

FACT CHECK:

the company was bought by Twitter, Inc., four months later for $30 million

That means it would be fascist controlled by the United States government and not allow any dissent, LGBT content or reporting on genocide.

After Elon Musk completed his purchase of social media company Twitter, he posted a poll on Twitter on October 30, 2022, whether to "Bring back Vine?".[33] It has received over 4.9 million votes, with the majority (69.6%) being in favor.[34] An Axios article published on October 31, 2022, stated that Musk purportedly requested Twitter engineers work on rebooting Vine.[35] On April 17, 2024, Musk posted the same poll on X (formerly Twitter) which accumulated nearly 2.3 million votes, with 69.6% being in favor.[36]

You're siding with the fascists rather than the revolutionary people's democracy of China.

[benji]

I'm glad the Bire is a CCP approved website. 

Merely an ally like the fellow Juche state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

[Potato]

How dare the US sanction a virtuous and ethical Chinese company as an act of political revenge for something nebulous and undefined.

https://www.ussc.edu.au/chinas-trade-restrictions-on-australian-exports

Trade and economics have increasingly become tools of political and diplomatic disputes between countries. In 2020, China placed trade restrictions on several Australian exports in response to the Australian Government calling for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. On 28 March 2024, following negotiations and a thawing of Australia-China relations, one of the last remaining tariffs – on wine – was lifted.

---

Trade restrictions on Australian products began between May and November 2020 in the form of higher tariffs placed on wine and barley; biosecurity measures against some beef and timber; and unannounced bans (often known as non-tariff barriers) on coal, cotton and lobsters. As a result, Australia’s exports of certain goods to China fell to nearly zero. At the time, China accounted for 33 per cent of Australia’s export market, declining to 27.6 per cent in 2022.

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At the beginning of 2023 with a new Australian Government in place, China began lifting its trade restrictions and Australian exports to China of barley, cotton, timber, coal and copper resumed. Following the October 2023 meeting between Prime Minister Albanese and President Xi Jinping, Beijing indicated it would restart imports of lobster and review its tariffs on wine. In exchange, Australia would suspend its World Trade Organization (WTO) case against China. Wine tariffs were lifted on 28 March 2024, with hopes lobster imports will resume soon.

---

While China’s trade measures led to huge falls in Australian exports of the targeted goods to China, many of the affected Australian industries found new markets and sold their products to other global customers.

---

Australia is not the only country China has targeted with trade restrictions. Beijing has used them again Taiwan, Lithuania, South Korea and Japan. China has also used its dominance in its own exports to place export bans on certain products used in the production of semiconductors and electric vehicles, including gallium, germanium, graphite and rare earth processing equipment. These bans were likely a warning shot in retaliation to the United States’ own trade restrictions on advanced semiconductors. If relations between Australia and China sour again in future, it’s not unrealistic that China could pursue trade restrictions again, through targeted import bans, or export restrictions on critical goods.

The trade restrictions that China placed on Australia in 2020 were an example of a growing trend of trade weaponisation for political aims. But they were also an example of Australia’s resilience against economic coercion. Apart from speciality products (such as wine and lobster), many Australian businesses were able to pivot to other markets, reducing the effectiveness of the trade restrictions.

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Tiktok good. Democrats bad.

小红书 for all.

[benji]

These dudes have zero clue how many Chinese companies alone are sanctioned by the United States and have been for years and years. There's tens of Chinese companies sanctioned for supplying Russia in the Ukraine War, there's tens of them sanctioned for the Uyghur stuff, there's a whole bunch sanctioned for violating Iranian sanctions, etc.

This is just the state-controlled list, not all the "private" companies:


They've never in their life cared about any of this except for probably calling for more sanctions like they constantly do against anyone they hate.

Oh, look, a helpful page on one of the few sources they'll actually ever bother to look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions_against_China

In October 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce added 42 Chinese companies to the Entity List for supplying Russia with microelectronics for missile and drone guidance systems.[52] In April 2024, the Department of Commerce sanctioned a Chinese company for supporting Russia's military through the procurement, development, and proliferation of Russian drones.[53] In May 2024, the U.S. sanctioned 20 companies in China and Hong Kong for supplying Russia's military.[54] In October 2024, the U.S. sanctioned two companies, Xiamen Limbach Aircraft Engine Co. and Redlepus Vector Industry, involving the production of long-range attack drones for Russia, including the Garpiya.[55]

In March 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce added 28 additional Chinese firms to the Entity List, including Inspur and Loongson, for acquiring American technology in support of the PLA.[59][60] In October 2023, the Department of Commerce added Biren Technology and Moore Threads to the Entity List.[61][62]

In April 2023, OFAC sanctioned two companies and four individuals in China, pursuant to Executive Order 14059, for supplying precursor chemicals for fentanyl production to drug cartels in Mexico.[64][65] In May 2023, OFAC sanctioned an additional seven companies and six people in China for supplying equipment to cartels for fentanyl production.[66]

In August 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order 14105, titled “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” (the Outbound Order), which prohibits U.S. investments in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence technologies in China.[71][72]

In May 2024, the U.S. Commerce Department added 37 units of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) to the Entity List for their role in the 2023 Chinese balloon incident.[75]

In July 2024, the U.S. sanctioned several individuals and entities in China for their alleged involvement in the procurement of items for North Korea's ballistic missile and space programs.[76][77]

I'm generally against sanctions but you have to be pretty delusional to think these are all imposed as "soft power" for American businesses who can't compete with China Number One rather than, in the immortal words of Ryan Davis, China Don't Care. These guys have been whining and bitching for how long about how nobody is destroying Israel and enforcing "international law" against war criminals like Joe Biden, yet that's pretty much all these sanctions from every country on China because China refuses to follow things it's agreed to let alone other aspects of international law. 

[Boredfrom]

To emphasize how cooked the Democrats are, I'm at work right now (we're open late and it's slowing down) and the vibes have shifted for the worse. My coworker is legit having withdrawals.

It's never been so over.

[Nintex]

Trump coin doubled in value, thank you President Trump

[benji]

Looking into this some the United States has apparently never truly sanctioned a Chinese bank despite the fact that position of the government is that China is a currency manipulator. Now that's definitely political soft power type stuff but it doesn't go in the direction they want the narrative to.

[benji]

How dare the US sanction a virtuous and ethical Chinese company as an act of political revenge for something nebulous and undefined.

https://www.ussc.edu.au/chinas-trade-restrictions-on-australian-exports

Trade and economics have increasingly become tools of political and diplomatic disputes between countries. In 2020, China placed trade restrictions on several Australian exports in response to the Australian Government calling for an inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. On 28 March 2024, following negotiations and a thawing of Australia-China relations, one of the last remaining tariffs – on wine – was lifted.

---

Trade restrictions on Australian products began between May and November 2020 in the form of higher tariffs placed on wine and barley; biosecurity measures against some beef and timber; and unannounced bans (often known as non-tariff barriers) on coal, cotton and lobsters. As a result, Australia’s exports of certain goods to China fell to nearly zero. At the time, China accounted for 33 per cent of Australia’s export market, declining to 27.6 per cent in 2022.

---

At the beginning of 2023 with a new Australian Government in place, China began lifting its trade restrictions and Australian exports to China of barley, cotton, timber, coal and copper resumed. Following the October 2023 meeting between Prime Minister Albanese and President Xi Jinping, Beijing indicated it would restart imports of lobster and review its tariffs on wine. In exchange, Australia would suspend its World Trade Organization (WTO) case against China. Wine tariffs were lifted on 28 March 2024, with hopes lobster imports will resume soon.

---

While China’s trade measures led to huge falls in Australian exports of the targeted goods to China, many of the affected Australian industries found new markets and sold their products to other global customers.

---

Australia is not the only country China has targeted with trade restrictions. Beijing has used them again Taiwan, Lithuania, South Korea and Japan. China has also used its dominance in its own exports to place export bans on certain products used in the production of semiconductors and electric vehicles, including gallium, germanium, graphite and rare earth processing equipment. These bans were likely a warning shot in retaliation to the United States’ own trade restrictions on advanced semiconductors. If relations between Australia and China sour again in future, it’s not unrealistic that China could pursue trade restrictions again, through targeted import bans, or export restrictions on critical goods.

The trade restrictions that China placed on Australia in 2020 were an example of a growing trend of trade weaponisation for political aims. But they were also an example of Australia’s resilience against economic coercion. Apart from speciality products (such as wine and lobster), many Australian businesses were able to pivot to other markets, reducing the effectiveness of the trade restrictions.

These dudes have zero clue how many Chinese companies alone are sanctioned by the United States and have been for years and years. There's tens of Chinese companies sanctioned for supplying Russia in the Ukraine War, there's tens of them sanctioned for the Uyghur stuff, there's a whole bunch sanctioned for violating Iranian sanctions, etc.

This is just the state-controlled list, not all the "private" companies:


They've never in their life cared about any of this except for probably calling for more sanctions like they constantly do against anyone they hate.

Oh, look, a helpful page on one of the few sources they'll actually ever bother to look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_sanctions_against_China

In October 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce added 42 Chinese companies to the Entity List for supplying Russia with microelectronics for missile and drone guidance systems.[52] In April 2024, the Department of Commerce sanctioned a Chinese company for supporting Russia's military through the procurement, development, and proliferation of Russian drones.[53] In May 2024, the U.S. sanctioned 20 companies in China and Hong Kong for supplying Russia's military.[54] In October 2024, the U.S. sanctioned two companies, Xiamen Limbach Aircraft Engine Co. and Redlepus Vector Industry, involving the production of long-range attack drones for Russia, including the Garpiya.[55]

In March 2023, the U.S. Department of Commerce added 28 additional Chinese firms to the Entity List, including Inspur and Loongson, for acquiring American technology in support of the PLA.[59][60] In October 2023, the Department of Commerce added Biren Technology and Moore Threads to the Entity List.[61][62]

In April 2023, OFAC sanctioned two companies and four individuals in China, pursuant to Executive Order 14059, for supplying precursor chemicals for fentanyl production to drug cartels in Mexico.[64][65] In May 2023, OFAC sanctioned an additional seven companies and six people in China for supplying equipment to cartels for fentanyl production.[66]

In August 2023, President Biden issued Executive Order 14105, titled “Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern” (the Outbound Order), which prohibits U.S. investments in semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and artificial intelligence technologies in China.[71][72]

In May 2024, the U.S. Commerce Department added 37 units of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) to the Entity List for their role in the 2023 Chinese balloon incident.[75]

In July 2024, the U.S. sanctioned several individuals and entities in China for their alleged involvement in the procurement of items for North Korea's ballistic missile and space programs.[76][77]

I'm generally against sanctions but you have to be pretty delusional to think these are all imposed as "soft power" for American businesses who can't compete with China Number One rather than, in the immortal words of Ryan Davis, China Don't Care. These guys have been whining and bitching for how long about how nobody is destroying Israel and enforcing "international law" against war criminals like Joe Biden, yet that's pretty much all these sanctions from every country on China because China refuses to follow things it's agreed to let alone other aspects of international law. 

Looking into this some the United States has apparently never truly sanctioned a Chinese bank despite the fact that position of the government is that China is a currency manipulator. Now that's definitely political soft power type stuff but it doesn't go in the direction they want the narrative to.

Okay but the ban doesn't actually solve the problem of capitalism.

[Propagandhim]

thirdly, even if I did agree with TikTok being shit, this is still dystopian as fuck...the fuck is next? First it's China, what's next? Especially if countries don't bow down to trump? All your global apps & entertainment could be declared a "security risk" with no evidence & be banned! Who the fuck wants that!? all of this is scary as shit & needs to be stop here & now. You know the ole saying "give an inch & they'll take a mile."

You? 

Firstly, I rather dropship my dna, social security number & full Fucking legal name to the Chinese communist party & Xi Jinping personally because I find them more trustworthy than the us goverment

In fact, they don't even use the TikTok everyone else gets.  They have their own CCP-approved version.  Go fill out immigration paperwork, what's the holdup?

[Nintex]

Trans for Trump?

[tweet]https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1880825219977453772?t=QRylmM4FqTQCBWAwTeHiJg&s=19[/tweet]

[Polident]

To emphasize how cooked the Democrats are, I'm at work right now (we're open late and it's slowing down) and the vibes have shifted for the worse. My coworker is legit having withdrawals.

It's never been so over.

It’s alarming how they speak the exact same way. The same expressions, terms, opinions. It makes a sick sort of sense why they need constant and extreme stimulation. It distracts from their absence of self. 

At least the Zuck AI bots try and hide their nature. Like a second year student using a thesaurus to hide their plagiarism.

[Nintex]

Imagine how they feel after 8 more years of Trump.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1880848530392109212?t=jJNSAB8gMq8FdM8JJ9yFBw&s=19[/tweet]

[Besticus Maximus]

I wasn’t expecting them to go trumper. This is a new low. Well done nepenthe, you fucking cunt.

[HaughtyFrank]

I'm just glad David Lynch didn't have to see Tiktok get banned

[Gameboy Nostalgia]

Suicide check in. Everyone doing okay? It's been a few hours since the tiktok ban and I know all of you are struggling right now.

Know that you're loved and you're going to be okay. 

[HaughtyFrank]

Suicide check in. Everyone doing okay? It's been a few hours since the tiktok ban and I know all of you are struggling right now.

Know that you're loved and you're going to be okay. 

I'm currently trying to deal with the realization that the Costco guys are gone

Zero booms from me

[Polident]

Suicide check in. Everyone doing okay? It's been a few hours since the tiktok ban and I know all of you are struggling right now.

Know that you're loved and you're going to be okay. 

watching this on loop to cope

[Nintex]

Suicide check in. Everyone doing okay? It's been a few hours since the tiktok ban and I know all of you are struggling right now.

Know that you're loved and you're going to be okay. 

My TRUMP memecoin holdings are now up 176%.



This is basically a free Nintendo Switch 2.

Thank you President Trump

[DocWager]

Breaking News: Trump will ban The Bire!

Welp, I’m going to get withdrawals.