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Article for reference:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/biden-agrees-to-sign-bill-that-could-ban-tiktok-if-congress-passes-it-5603880?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=top-news-top-stories-0-large-1

I get that many at the Epoch Times would be concerned about China and the CCP, though I will have to say as far as my interests go, my own government is a far greater threat to my freedom and wellbeing than the Chinese government. Perhaps this is all part of the groundwork for war against China. Who knows though?

I get a very strong feeling that all the talk about banning TikTok has nothing to do with national security in the slightest. Or perhaps you could say it is "national security" in the sense that they want to keep their power secure by making sure they can remove any platforms getting too big outside of the mainstream ones they already control.

I give very few shits about "misinformation" or censorship concerns when our own government is doing all of that already to a worse extent.

@MasterSimper "Hang out?" What does this mean exactly? And what do you want out of a relationship with this woman?

I doubt you want just friendship. You need to set the terms of what you want right away. No "hanging out" that makes it seems like you are just wanting friendship if you want more. It wastes less time and gives you answers earlier.

@FinalDresdonation Perfect example of "I'm sorry I got caught." She would shed no tears if he never found out, and she would have been sad earlier if she truly was remorseful and would have confessed herself if she had any sense of guilt.

@Xenophon Bunnies also die in large quantities due to the numerous predators that eat them and consequently care little about their own offspring. It is best we do not emulate a species that has the reproductive strategy of hoping a few of them will survive to adulthood.

And no one thinks rabbits are "pure" either. There is a reason the term "fuck like rabbits" is used when a couple is having sex often. It sure is not due to their "purity."

@DW2 This reminds me of my hate-listening of an NPR segment I had today with them talking about "recognizing misinformation" and "media literacy." One of the examples was "vaccine misinformation." Of course NPR was 100% pro-mystery-juice and sees anyone questioning these being "safe and effective" as "misinformation."

I am sure that they will not talk about this gem, as it would reveal that their talk about "fighting misinformation" is just bullshit.

@PapaPole I don't know. If he was, that is just cringe. But I am guessing he was not.

Sometimes I cringe at Vox Day being far too investing in the Socio-Sexual-Hierarchy (pretty sure he was the one who coined the term "Sigma male" and still uses it unironically).

That does not mean I cringe at everything. People are a mixed bag, some points they make are good, others questionable.

This is an example of a good point being made:

https://voxday.net/2024/03/02/just-1-thing/

Gatekeeping is good. There is a reason to have the gate and the rest of the barrier around it.

@CoQ_10 Left: I just want to find myself, tee hee!

Right: I am ready to settle down. Where are all the good men?

@shortstories And back with the space race, it would actually make sense for the USSR not to call bullshit on the US "landing on the moon" if it was faked and the USSR was working hand in hand on the same team.

It makes me worry about those who are attempting to go to Mars. Because apparently we "lost" the technology to get back to the moon.

@shortstories Even if we accept that the Cold War was all fake and gay, it still provides cover and justification for high military spending.

And assuming what you are saying is correct here, what do you make of the current situation with Russia in Ukraine with NATO supplying arms to Ukraine? Is Russia still covertly working with us, or is it a split from the previous cooperation?

And even worse, we are exporting some of the worst politics on the world and making the many countries genuinely hate us. Why should we care if some Middle East or African countries say no to feminism and homosexuality? They are not our countries, so we should not be telling them what to do.

I also doubt that countries like Japan and Taiwan geniunely embrace homosexual politics, but thanks to the US influence, they are allowing that shit to take place.

The most important aspect of policies are those that affect you directly and the evaluation of how much it costs to enact those policies. When it comes to a strong military intervention, can we really make a right wing case for them benefitting us when we are using it to fight people who are not really much of a threat to us? Because all we have to show for most interventionist policies are a huge bill to pay.

Though we still have supposed "conservatives" such as Bill Kristol who have exposed themselves as only being "conservative" in having a huge military that intervenes in other countries. In a way, Donald Trump exposed the farce of the neocons ever being conservative or right wing. Not because Trump was a great example of conservatism, but the fact that when he disrupted the status quo, the neocons exposed themselves as having no geniune right wing values.

But as our military has been overtaken by progressive politics and is enforcing policies worldwide that are the antithesis of American rightwing politics (e.g. homosexuality being legalized and feminist policies), it should be a far easier case for the American right to unpair themselves from supporting an interventionist doctrine.

For many on the right, this has become the case.