That's not how our government works. Congress passes this laws and once it's signed by the president that's it.
If he doesn't like the law what he needs to do is ask the republican controlled congress to pass a repeal.
Any EO would be illegal.
With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
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If he doesn't like the law what he needs to do is ask the republican controlled congress to pass a repeal.
Any EO would be illegal.
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And Trump launching a memecoin 2 days before he's president (which we know will be a rug pull like every other grift he's been involved in)
Don't bring up legality of things and Trump in the same book... he's got full immunity to everything now... he can legally go in and steal all the money out of your bank account and tell you to fukk off... and he's immune...
The next 4+ years going to get WILD... and he's gonna try to stay in office longer than 4 years
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@kenklippenstein
This reminds me of when Trump put his name on the stimulus checks but Biden didn’t. Historic own goal by the Democrats here
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@KristiTalmadge
Many creators of all sizes on X use CapCut, too, so they aren't happy either.
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@kenklippenstein
This reminds me of when Trump put his name on the stimulus checks but Biden didn’t. Historic own goal by the Democrats here
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@KristiTalmadge
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Veerender Singh Jubbal (@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social)
Apparently you cannot say/post, “Free Palestine,” on Tik Tok anymore. The application that aided in people learning about an ongoing ethnic cleansing, genocide, occupation, and was used in courts to showcase Zionism is now somewhere you cannot say a basic for justice phrase of the devastation.
bsky.app
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Veerender Singh Jubbal
Apparently you cannot say/post, “Free Palestine,” on Tik Tok anymore.
The application that aided in people learning about an ongoing ethnic cleansing, genocide, occupation, and was used in courts to showcase Zionism is now somewhere you cannot say a basic for justice phrase of the devastation.
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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social
It's almost like they were using you to get Trump elected.
3/25
Lili Peck @pochamoto.bsky.social
They’re so close to getting it.
4/25
Bodhi @bodhissatva89.bsky.social
Shocking. Why can’t you understand that you are the ones that helped a literal Nazi get elected and now when they find you no longer useful you get this. The disconnect is mind-boggling.
5/25
Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social
Oh i thought maybe it was the people doing the genocide that helped elect him
6/25
SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social
Realizing you got played yet?
7/25
JottaPg @jottafrost.bsky.social
Hes not from USA
8/25
SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social
He still got played.
Russian/Chinese propaganda pushing lies, half-truths, distortions, and spin in order to destabilize the West and destroy democracies.
9/25
repetitiveuser.bsky.social @repetitiveuser.bsky.social
LMAO you helped the fascist get elected
10/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
I am begging folks to learn that people outside of the US before jumping in with the assumptions. The folks in this thread exhibiting Twitteresque behavior - V lives in Canada & is commenting on the effect for Palestine, not making notes on US politics.
11/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
(Like why would you read this and jump to assuming he’s maga or a bot or PRC propaganda? Have known Veerender online for over a decade, and if you knew his fairly Twitter-famous history, y’all would feel silly. Ppl in other countries have different laws, internet experiences.)
Keyword reacts here.
12/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
It does make me wonder how many of the folks replying are discourse bots bc of the keywords.
Some of the replies barely make sense.
13/25
Cheeba Jones @cheebajones.bsky.social
This was the entire reason it was shutdown, or at least given those threats.
Mitt Romney spilled the beans months ago. Israel was losing their propaganda war to the users on TikTok. Israel couldnt keep getting away w/ genocide so long a free discourse was taking place on that app.
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PersianX6 @persianx6.bsky.social
Israel was also losing elsewhere, like on Reddit. Than they co-opted R/worldnews in a big and bad way.
15/25
Michael Vokabre @vokabre.bsky.social
What people are immediately doing?
Of course they are blaming Jews for it, despite tiktok being the source for teaching the entire generation on how to conveniently hate Jews but progressively.
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Lili Peck @pochamoto.bsky.social
Y’all got played like a violin. Enjoy the next 4 years.
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Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
He’s Canadian. Re-read his post again and tell me where he said anything about the US politics specifically.
People outside the US exist. Palestinians exist.
18/25
Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social
19/25
Bunny Bismuth: One of those car owners @bunny.bismuth.gay
You got fukking owned
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Claudia Alick @callingupjustice.bsky.social
I called this algorithmic genocide. They program the computer to punish you, silence you, hide you, if you mention the marginalized group. We get disappeared on the Internet and that makes it easier to disappear us in the real world. Algorithmic genocide supports actual genocide
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repetitiveuser.bsky.social @repetitiveuser.bsky.social
22/25
ruuubs.bsky.social @ruuubs.bsky.social
Well, at least the Democrats' bipartisan compromise gave them what they wanted!
Shame though for, you know, everyone with half a lick of decency
23/25
LWBallard @lwballard.bsky.social
Um... a MASSIVE ownership of TT and Bytedance (parent company) was ALWAYS Jeff Yass -- a major donor to GOP, Israel, and anti-Muslim groups. They KNEW how to stir up folks to disenfranchise them and convince them to NOT VOTE for Kamala. You were ALWAYS being used by GOP and China.
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bex0760 @bex7860.bsky.social
You can now go sit at the maga table that believed propaganda and got us to a spiteful rapist being sworn in today.
You all belong together.
25/25
Char Goodreau @chargoodreau.bsky.social
It got you all to do its bidding and now they are done...
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Veerender Singh Jubbal
Apparently you cannot say/post, “Free Palestine,” on Tik Tok anymore.
The application that aided in people learning about an ongoing ethnic cleansing, genocide, occupation, and was used in courts to showcase Zionism is now somewhere you cannot say a basic for justice phrase of the devastation.
2/25
Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social
It's almost like they were using you to get Trump elected.
3/25
Lili Peck @pochamoto.bsky.social
They’re so close to getting it.
4/25
Bodhi @bodhissatva89.bsky.social
Shocking. Why can’t you understand that you are the ones that helped a literal Nazi get elected and now when they find you no longer useful you get this. The disconnect is mind-boggling.
5/25
Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social
Oh i thought maybe it was the people doing the genocide that helped elect him
6/25
SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social
Realizing you got played yet?
7/25
JottaPg @jottafrost.bsky.social
Hes not from USA
8/25
SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social
He still got played.
Russian/Chinese propaganda pushing lies, half-truths, distortions, and spin in order to destabilize the West and destroy democracies.
9/25
repetitiveuser.bsky.social @repetitiveuser.bsky.social
LMAO you helped the fascist get elected
10/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
I am begging folks to learn that people outside of the US before jumping in with the assumptions. The folks in this thread exhibiting Twitteresque behavior - V lives in Canada & is commenting on the effect for Palestine, not making notes on US politics.
11/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
(Like why would you read this and jump to assuming he’s maga or a bot or PRC propaganda? Have known Veerender online for over a decade, and if you knew his fairly Twitter-famous history, y’all would feel silly. Ppl in other countries have different laws, internet experiences.)
Keyword reacts here.
12/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
It does make me wonder how many of the folks replying are discourse bots bc of the keywords.
Some of the replies barely make sense.
13/25
Cheeba Jones @cheebajones.bsky.social
This was the entire reason it was shutdown, or at least given those threats.
Mitt Romney spilled the beans months ago. Israel was losing their propaganda war to the users on TikTok. Israel couldnt keep getting away w/ genocide so long a free discourse was taking place on that app.
14/25
PersianX6 @persianx6.bsky.social
Israel was also losing elsewhere, like on Reddit. Than they co-opted R/worldnews in a big and bad way.
15/25
Michael Vokabre @vokabre.bsky.social
What people are immediately doing?
Of course they are blaming Jews for it, despite tiktok being the source for teaching the entire generation on how to conveniently hate Jews but progressively.
16/25
Lili Peck @pochamoto.bsky.social
Y’all got played like a violin. Enjoy the next 4 years.
17/25
Seasonal Pun @pixelfish.bsky.social
He’s Canadian. Re-read his post again and tell me where he said anything about the US politics specifically.
People outside the US exist. Palestinians exist.
18/25
Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social
19/25
Bunny Bismuth: One of those car owners @bunny.bismuth.gayYou got fukking owned
20/25
Claudia Alick @callingupjustice.bsky.social
I called this algorithmic genocide. They program the computer to punish you, silence you, hide you, if you mention the marginalized group. We get disappeared on the Internet and that makes it easier to disappear us in the real world. Algorithmic genocide supports actual genocide
21/25
repetitiveuser.bsky.social @repetitiveuser.bsky.social
22/25
ruuubs.bsky.social @ruuubs.bsky.social
Well, at least the Democrats' bipartisan compromise gave them what they wanted!
Shame though for, you know, everyone with half a lick of decency
23/25
LWBallard @lwballard.bsky.social
Um... a MASSIVE ownership of TT and Bytedance (parent company) was ALWAYS Jeff Yass -- a major donor to GOP, Israel, and anti-Muslim groups. They KNEW how to stir up folks to disenfranchise them and convince them to NOT VOTE for Kamala. You were ALWAYS being used by GOP and China.
24/25
bex0760 @bex7860.bsky.social
You can now go sit at the maga table that believed propaganda and got us to a spiteful rapist being sworn in today.
You all belong together.
25/25
Char Goodreau @chargoodreau.bsky.social
It got you all to do its bidding and now they are done...
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Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'
Meta says it is working quickly to resolve the problem, which has prompted accusations of bias on social media.
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Instagram hides search results for 'Democrats'
5 hours ago
Tom Gerken
Technology reporter
Meta says its working urgently to fix a problem with Instagram which results in a "results hidden" message when users search for the terms "Democrat" or "Democrats".
Some social media users have accused the company of political bias, pointing out the issue has been occurring after President Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, which was attended by Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta has insisted that is not the case, saying it is a technical problem which has also affected other hashtags, including a Republican one.
However, social media expert Matt Navarra said it was "embarrassing" for Instagram regardless.
"In a hyper-partisan environment, even unintentional errors like this can escalate into accusations of partisanship," he said.
"If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta's reputation."
While users who type "#Democrat" or "#Democrats" see no results, the hashtag "Republican" returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.
By manually searching Instagram for "Democrats", rather than clicking on a hashtag, users are greeted by a screen reading "we've hidden these results".
"Results for the term you searched for may contain sensitive content," it says.
There are also limited results when people search for "Republicans" as opposed to "Republican".
"We're aware of an error affecting hashtags across the political spectrum and we are working quickly to resolve it", Meta told the BBC in a statement.
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Zuckerberg and Trump
Mr Zuckerberg attending Trump's return to office is the latest in a series of moves that have seen him - and other tech bosses - move closer to the incoming Republican administration.
In January, Meta announced a major shake-up of its policies towards how material on its platforms is moderated, with Mr Zuckerberg citing the "cultural tipping point" Trump's re-election represented.
Joel Kaplan, a prominent Republican, has been chosen to replace Sir Nick Clegg as Meta's global affairs chief.
Mr Zuckerberg visited the US president at his resort in Mar-a-Lago in November and Meta made a donation to a Tump fund.
Trump and his allies previously criticised Meta, claiming it censored right-wing voices, and even threatened the Meta boss with jail.
However reacting to its decision to axe fact checkers, Trump told a news conference he was impressed by Zuckerberg's decision and said Meta had "come a long way".
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FWIW, this may be anecdotal, but for the first time ever, I’m seeing Melania and JD Vance as recommended follows on Instagram and I can guarantee that my algorithm is far as hell from either of those. shyt is spooky to me.
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China Cracks Down on Online Panda Advocacy
Panda fan culture once flourished in China. But Beijing is tightening control of discussion of a national symbol.
Meanwhile in China they can’t even talk about Pandas
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Rest In Power Kobe
'I'm filled with the most impotent rage': Americans are becoming radicalized after seeing grocery, healthcare costs in China
'My suffering was at the expense of someone else becoming wealthy.'
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Greatest and worst January in the past 8 years.
@ Comrade Trump
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I don't know what they did but ever since the app got unbanned in the US Brits have been getting roasted nonstop 
'I'm filled with the most impotent rage': Americans are becoming radicalized after seeing grocery, healthcare costs in China
'My suffering was at the expense of someone else becoming wealthy.'
'I'm filled with the most impotent rage': Americans are becoming radicalized after seeing grocery, healthcare costs in China
'My suffering was at the expense of someone else becoming wealthy.'
www.dailydot.com
‘I’m filled with the most impotent rage’: Americans are becoming radicalized after seeing grocery, healthcare costs in China
‘My suffering was at the expense of someone else becoming wealthy.’
Lindsey Weedston
Updated on January 21 2025 4:21 pm CST
@TheNoLabelsPod/X @indigo_dahlia//TikTok @CarlZha/X
Americans switching to RedNote ahead of the TikTok ban are becoming radicalized after learning what Chinese citizens spend on groceries and healthcare. After a lifetime of being told that life in China is terrible under an oppressive government that keeps all of its people in abject poverty, “TikTok refugees” are getting a different story straight from the mouths of Chinese citizens.
U.S. residents who have been struggling to survive as the price of eggs rises to $6 per carton are making furious videos demanding to know why twice the amount of eggs cost 25 cents in China.
‘The government has been lying to us about China’
After watching average videos on RedNote and making contact with residents of China who were previously isolated from them, some TikTokers are convinced that they’ve been misled about the quality of life in this far-away nation. This is fueling anger among those frustrated with the constant rise in the cost of living in the U.S.
“The government has been lying to us about China for decades,” says TikTok user @futuredeadbruja.
@futuredeadbruja Till my last breath I’ll be yapping about our worthless gov. #tiktok #tiktokban #rednote ♬ original sound – Aasha
“Now that we’ve all gotten on RedNote and we can see the lifestyle that all of the Chinese people have, a lot of us Americans are f*cking pissed.”
“And the people on RedNote are so f*cking flabbergasted that we have to work two jobs just to keep our roof over our head.”
TikTok users spent years watching shopping hauls on the platform by more affluent users, only able to experience a sense of financial security vicariously through these videos. On RedNote, the new American users drool over affordable “grocery hauls.”
“Chinese grocery hauls are insane because they can actually afford food,” explains @danabanafofana.
Another TikToker, @kyleostromecky, made a video after comparing grocery prices in the U.S. and China with a RedNote user. He did the math and discovered that $7 worth of corn in America costs only 97 cents here.
‘No social services, no safety net’
As always, one of the biggest concerns when it comes to money in the U.S. is medical bills. TikTok user @indigo_dahlia cried in a recent video after getting on RedNote and learning about how many Chinese citizens live—working less than 40 hours per week instead of 60 and owning their homes instead of paying $2,000 per month in rent.
She explains that she “did everything right” but had to drop out of college to take care of her disabled mother because the U.S. healthcare system sure wasn’t going to.
“No social services, no safety net,” she said. “My mom was disabled, and she lived on credit, and like, she barely made ends meet and she did everything she was supposed to.”
“My suffering was at the expense of someone else becoming wealthy because they could.”
Speaking with the Daily Dot, this TikToker, Sara C., says that commenters have overwhelmingly agreed that the U.S. healthcare system is letting people down. Within her own situation, she stated that “there is not a single part of my life that wouldn’t be different if there had been better social safety nets in place.”
“I’ve poured thousands of my own dollars into fixing teeth that would have never been an issue if I’d been able to receive time appropriate affordable care when it was needed,” she continued. “I moved to Texas in 2014 following the death of my best friend from a heroin overdose … and he died due to lack of comprehensive addiction care and appropriate healthcare management to start.”
“In Texas, I could have left my abusive ex much sooner than I was able to, but I was disabled from a car accident that took 9 months for me to get my very needed spine surgery. Why did it need to take that long? Greed. What else.”
She went on to say that her own daughter now misses out on a lot of activities and social events because Sara has to work so hard to support them as a single mom and then spend even more time navigating a “broken system” to support her neurodivergent kid’s needs.
“I can’t be as present 24/7—because I’m under a immense amount of stress, she has a mom who cries often. I don’t get to spend nearly as much time with her as my heart aches for.”
Although TikTok has avoided shutting down in the U.S. for now, Sara plans to spend less time scrolling through the apps and more time with her daughter and volunteering in her community as Donald Trump takes office.
$50 for an ambulance ride in China
Meanwhile, on RedNote, one user expressed shock over the costs of common healthcare-related services like an ambulance ride, revealing that the average price for this in Shanghai, “the most expensive city in China,” is just $50.
“Red Note is doing what they feared Tik Tok would” wrote @JessicaLBurbank above screenshots from one TikTok reading, “Someone on REDNOTE asked if it’s true that minimum wage hasn’t been increased in 16 years or if it was just their government’s propaganda?” alongside a similar sentiment: “Someone in the comments of REDNOTE asked me if we really had to pay for an ambulance in America or if that was just their government’s propaganda.”
Why are things cheaper in China?
Part of the reason everyday necessities like groceries cost less in China is because their average income is significantly less. According to the World Population Review, the median income per person in the U.S. in 2020 was $19,306, compared to $4,426 in China.
There’s also a wealth gap in China between urban and rural residents, and those prolific on RedNote may be more likely to live in the city. According to the National Bureau of Statistics in China, the average urban income is $7,068 compared to $2,959 in the country.
Still, this doesn’t seem to account for corn costing seven times as much in the U.S. compared to China considering our average income is four times higher. That gap gets much worse when it comes to healthcare costs, exacerbating the anger U.S. residents were already feeling on the subject.
I like how people get asked if we truly have that shytty wage and healthcare system in place. Like, it's so incredibly unbelievable it has to be propaganda.
