U.S. Politics

[CatoTheElder]

https://twitter.com/CharlesRobinson/status/1767670913267368035?s=20

There. That's both threads.

[Badger]

https://x.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1767198788689465639?s=46&t=e6vm1ybQ4I7pEpNpNEkBkg

This was a good thread

[Badger]

The House overwhelmingly voting to ban TikTok is one of the stupidest congressional things in recent memory.

About 65 House reps max aren't dumb as excrement.

[dcm1602]

The House overwhelmingly voting to ban TikTok is one of the stupidest congressional things in recent memory.

About 65 House reps max aren't dumb as excrement.

I'm not familiar with every permutation of the bill being floated, but my understanding is having China divest of Tik Tok is whats the end goal.

If it was an outright ban of Tiktok because "social media bad" that's one thing

But here it seems to be more about China having access to a wealth of information via the app

I think that's at least a fair discussion

[Badger]

I'm not familiar with every permutation of the bill being floated, but my understanding is having China divest of Tik Tok is whats the end goal.

If it was an outright ban of Tiktok because "social media bad" that's one thing

But here it seems to be more about China having access to a wealth of information via the app

I think that's at least a fair discussion

The US government's access to Meta, Twitter, Google, Apple user info is much more impactful on the lives of Americans. Someone in China having access to your metadata is a big fat zero.

[Badger]

Tom Cotton's line of questioning with TikTok's CEO perfectly encapsulates the situation.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/02/02/tom-cotton-shou-zi-chew-singaporean-tiktok-testimony-vpx.cnn

ARE YEW CHI-NEEEESE?

[dcm1602]

The US government's access to Meta, Twitter, Google, Apple user info is much more impactful on the lives of Americans. Someone in China having access to your metadata is a big fat zero.

Surely you can understand why US politicians don't care about them having access to your metadata

Regardless its not unreasonable to for the government to have a discussion about how much American data foreign countries should have

[CatoTheElder]

I don't feel any safer with the metadata being in the hands of a US owned company when all of the current US owned companies sell it off to anyone they please, anyway.

[Johnny English]

On modern Christianity, the Republican Party, and Donald J Trump specifically:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/march-web-only/ned-flanders-douglas-wilson-russell-moore-character.html?s=07

An excellent piece, whether you have are a believer or not.

[dcm1602]

On modern Christianity, the Republican Party, and Donald J Trump specifically:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2024/march-web-only/ned-flanders-douglas-wilson-russell-moore-character.html?s=07

An excellent piece, whether you have are a believer or not.

The guy has points, but this article isn't primarily about Trump and Republicans. It's a religious nut who wants America to move wayyyy to the right

I suspect that he wants more people like Billy Graham and Mike Pence. He's a believer in complimentarianism which my understanding is essentially just religious sexism that believes men and women are equal but different, so women should stick to what they're good at which is making babies

On character the guys correct (although unrealistic, this is someone who would advocate for things like the outright ban on pornography and abortion) so I'm not sure what you like.

Is it because he's critical of Trump, that you outright ignore his insanely whackado religious beliefs?

[Johnny English]

The guy has points, but this article isn't primarily about Trump and Republicans. It's a religious nut who wants America to move wayyyy to the right

I suspect that he wants more people like Billy Graham and Mike Pence. He's a believer in complimentarianism which my understanding is essentially just religious sexism that believes men and women are equal but different, so women should stick to what they're good at which is making babies

On character the guys correct (although unrealistic, this is someone who would advocate for things like the outright ban on pornography and abortion) so I'm not sure what you like.

Is it because he's critical of Trump, that you outright ignore his insanely whackado religious beliefs?

While he clearly has some views with which I don't agree, I don't think there's anything "insanely whackadoo" going on there. Beyond that particularly subjective issue, I don't have a problem with people holding religious beliefs - we are all entitled to our own belief systems. I have an issue with religious beliefs forming a basis for public policy which clearly the writer doesn't, but that isn't really the point of the article, is it?

[Derek Smalls]

As someone who went to catholic school for a while, I thought that was an interesting way to look at it. There were a couple teachers that came off like Flanders. But now many of the so-called religious ones are more like the caricature in the article.

[SixFeetDeep]

https://x.com/jeremiahdjohns/status/1772465334445899811?s=46&t=e6vm1ybQ4I7pEpNpNEkBkg

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[dcm1602]

https://x.com/jeremiahdjohns/status/1772465334445899811?s=46&t=e6vm1ybQ4I7pEpNpNEkBkg

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Shapiro is incredibly hawkish on Gaza. But the dude is also a Jewish man who was in Israel the weekend of October 7th for Yom Kipur

So I'd say that's pretty justifiable

Also didn't realize Zach Wilson had an evil alter ego in this Fuentes guy

[Badger]

Mike Lee is correct

https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1773771175291957578?t=_TETxZ28W6poB9VPdk6LxQ&s=19