I think that Biden has done a better job of working the hill to get the stuff he wants than Obama ever did
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Hear hear.
Most underrated President of all time. My expectations weren't high, but I have to admit, he's absolutely blown me away with how effective he's been.
Given the shit he was handed from the previous admin, with a divided Congress, etc. he's absolutely crushing it. Imagine what he could do with a Congress behind him and a supreme Court that wasn't broken.
That's great, but he needs to now self-promote and market himself, or we'll be stuck with another Trump term (and possibly the end of democracy in America).
So your saying a guy who has 40 years of experience in lawmaking is good at lawmaking?
Uh... No? My words were pretty clear, I don't think they needed to be reframed.
EDIT: I think you meant to reply to the parent comment.
It would also help if he stops SUPPORTING THE FUCKING ISRAELI GENOCIDE.
Plenty of cultists of both sides in the US. The Jewish cultists just happen to be more powerful.
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He snuck a win past the GOP!
Article immediately references Aid for Israel and the TikTok ban.
I'm not sure those are wins.
Right, the biggest wins really are the changes we've seen come out of the FTC & FCC
The TikTok ban is a bad thing? Israel for sure is, but considering the current situation in congress, getting the Ukraine funding passes along with other legislature is amazing.
It's a win for whoever is invested in the company that buys them
I just think the tik tok ban is pointless, they can buy our data from Facebook anyway. I don't disagree with it per se, I just think it's a waste of time.
They could buy data from Facebook, except that Facebook has limitation on what data they provide, not to mention Facebook doesn't have an incentive to negatively affect the US (doesn't mean their incentive to extract profit doesn't lead to them damaging the US in other ways ) unlike companies that are owned by China. Facebook doesn't want to end up banned in the US, nor considered a political ally to another country, and especially not China. With TikTok, China can directly influence what kind of information they extract, and what kind of information comes out from the app. Through Facebook there's significantly more hurdles.
I have to disagree, I actually haven't seen any evidence presented showing the Chinese government is meddling through TikTok, at least not to any higher degree than the US government meddles in US-operated social media.
A Tiktok ban comes off as red scare-style overreaction that risks losing the support of a lot of young Americans who already see the US federal government as a surveillance state. This certainly does not do anything to quell those sentiments.
I'm not aware of any either. But we know that TikTok is still partially owned by the Chinese government, unlike Facebook or other social medias. Why would we put ourselves into a situation where an adversary has their software installed into millions of devices in the US, with the ability to influence what those same users see and hear, as well as having the ability to extract information through the application? Not to mention, China wouldn't allow the same in their country (hell they don't allow any companies to operate there without partial China ownership and influence). We know that the US government doesn't trust Chinese hardware (Huawei) within the country, why would Chinese software be any different?
Honestly, I feel the whole world is treating China way too nice when you consider how much they screw over everybody else in trade. China wants to be able to freely access other countries markets, while completely limiting and discouraging any other country's companies from accessing theirs. If China wants to play that game, then they should be getting an equivalent response: No free trade, no easy access to our markets.
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Yeah, it’s kind of a distraction. Sure, it’s probably bad that the Chinese government has a source for so much personal data for so many people, but it’s also bad that Facebook does, and many more. The real problem is the lack of privacy rights, controls, remedies, regardless of whom collects it
Even back 30 years ago, I knew someone who wanted to build a dating app. Even back then, he didn’t care about income from the users. Even that long ago, the market for detailed personal data was the profit center
it's both: it's personal data AND a platform to feed targeted content. The US enjoys being able to deliver content/suppress content on US-based social media, but I imagine they don't have as much (or any) ability to control content on TikTok.
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It also doesn't hurt that Democrats in Congress have held unprecedentedly united
"unprecedentedly" is one of those words that just shouldn't be. Just because it's a word doesn't mean it makes a good sub header.
'it also doesn't hurt that Democrats have maintained a united front of unprecedented durability' or '...unprecedented strength' seems less clumsy if you really need to drive home how...unprecedented it is.
Anyway, well done Joe, you already got my vote but by all means keep dropping those table scraps. They are tasty.
I think it's a perfectly cromulent word
uncromulentedly so !
For a moment, I thought republicans wouldn’t stand behind a loser.
I haven’t seen a Republican stand for anything.
edit: I see your replies, and I get your point, but I don’t think that’s what “stand for” means. They slink around and deceive to get their way, hardly ever owning their actions or their goals. And they definitely stand against plenty of things: democracy, human rights, and integrity to name a few.
They stand for the death of women and the sexual assault of children. That’s as much as I’ve seen though.
They stand for insurrection and Russia.
They stand for whatever they think will get them money and power at any given moment.
No, no, I can see them standing up for ask sorts of policies that destroy themselves for the enrichment of their masters.
The GOP infighting has escalated in the wake of the House's months-long tantrum led by the far-right extremists who seemed to truly believe that they could hold their breath until they turned blue and they would eventually get everything they wanted.
Which they would have gotten almost everything they wanted except for the approval of Don Poorleone.
... And despite all the drama, the Biden White House ended up getting most of what it wanted without having to give up much of anything in return, at least in part because the Republicans wouldn't take yes for an answer when concessions were offered.
I'm glad the Democrats have gotten bored of not governing that they actually got the resolve to come together and do something rather than cave to Republican obstruction.
This reminds me of that Zizek joke:
Content Warning: Joke that contains description of rape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkptPb0gS_Y
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