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That unanimous decision made it perfectly clear that the government knows something we don’t,

Yeah, they know who pays their checks.

My bet is on the genocide being much worse than even TikTok was showing,

TikTok showed them incinerating an entire civilization. Not sure what you saw on there.

If that were true then they wouldn’t have given ByteDance the option to sell 80% to citizens and continue operating.

Except the entire point of that is the U.S. ownership would succumb to that pressure.

Sidestep providing the evidence and go straight for the personal attack. Nice.

Bytedance's long-term hope is naturally to be able to continuing operating everywhere without violating any laws. Right? Therefore, their strategy is to stay as compliant as possible with various national laws (within reason), right? Therefore they have to take a conservative reading of the bill (PAFACA). So let's look at the text of the bill:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521/text

(1) PROHIBITION OF FOREIGN ADVERSARY CONTROLLED APPLICATIONS.—It shall be unlawful for an entity to distribute, maintain, or update (or enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of) a foreign adversary controlled application by carrying out, within the land or maritime borders of the United States, any of the following: [...]

Now, the actual distribution of TikTok is done by a U.S. corp, incorporated in California and Delaware. That corp has to stay compliant with these laws. Therefore, to maintain or update or enable the distribution of an app as defined in this bill, is legally punishable. Make sense? Particularly because the law mentions them by name, there is basically zero legal defense against it besides contesting its constitutionality. Which the horrifically corrupt Supreme Court upheld.

So, probably the only way they felt comfortable resuming operations in the U.S. was with some kind of written agreement with the Trump admin - as of yet undisclosed.

Yeah, but the ban passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, randomly jammed inside of the global military spending package including funding the Ukrainian war effort and the genocide in Gaza (which is a must-support bill for Democrats and Republicans alike I guess).

I looked that car up a few days ago - know why? It was Jesse's car in Breaking Bad.

If you're into cars for curiosity's sake, it's a fun deep dive to look into the cars used in Russia, including the USSR-era ones. Harsh winter conditions, huge backcountry. Some of the government issue ones, uh, GAZ-69, UAZ-469, GAZ-66. I bet people have done modern engine swaps with the chassis on those. One of the crazier things is in the colder regions (e.g. Yakutia) engine cooling isn't an issue, rather they have to insulate the engine so that it'll be warm enough to start.

That is also a big help, the best thing you can do is increase what's basically the coefficient of friction.

It won't help you skidding out on the highway, but there are a few situations where you start slipping where they'll actually catch it.

It's not either.

Chicken and the egg, he would have been defeated in the marketplace of ideas, if he didn't seize power and destroy the marketplace of ideas. If the German population held freedom of expression, equality for all under the law, etc., as sacrosanct, and Hitler wasn't able to manufacture a legal mechanism to seize power, nothing would have happened. But, they were missing that kind of unity, the idea of what a better society should look like and why it's worth defending, so that enough psychopaths organized around Hitler that he was able to enforce his mandates.

Ultimately the question is about whether or not a political paradigm can gain enough traction to have its followers come out on top of everyone else. The prevailing wind of society has to be justice instead of injustice. And not always "domestically", either, war and colonialism take a very similar shape. just as a projection from one region into another. This gets to Chomsky's description of "power structures". A fascist power structure could defeat, or be defeated by, the organization of the people, but it all depends on their collective cultural mindset - strength in numbers, arms, organization, etc. That is why ultimately the fight against fascism is about the necessity of education, and why fascists attack all forms of education.

You just trying to be a dick or what? "Innovation" just means coming up with anything clever. I'm not into business garbage, I've been sitting here in this thread calling out scams and memecoins and other bullshit for two or three comments already.