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It's the same fake argument every time they try to take away your rights (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The problem that many people have with this argument that "China is going to influence us" isn't that we are immune to influence, its that the argument sounds extremely hallow when our own native social media manipulates the absolute shit out of us already... like what is China going to do that our own country isn't already doing.

This is the argument you hear from people on tiktok about why they don't care about the governments concern.

Well that and how its kind of disgusting how completely unified the house is in this bill, but couldn't give a shit about wealth inequality, corporate ownership of residential housing, rampant inflation, rising homelessness, school shootings.