The White House is facing mounting pressure from Congress to ban the widely popular TikTok app nationwide after Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Congressman Ken Buck (R-CO) introduced a piece of legislation on Wednesday to curb its use. A similar bill to ban TikTok in the U.S. was filed during the last Congressional session, but it was not considered in either chamber.
It’s funny because Tiktok is now a complete propaganda tool for the US state department to use on the same level, if not higher than every Meta social media and Twitter but the people in the White House, Congress, and almost all Americans are too xenophobic and stupid to realize it
Destroying your own imperialist state propaganda tools to own the commies
Omg yes I noticed that too. There are also like on there Americans who are like “wow europe is so racist unlike America because of the treatment of romani people” lol.
Americans have always been like this towards Europeans. Used to see shit like that on the Neopets forums during the Bush years.
Why would they? They’ve already learned for decades that Americans are completely domesticated
The problem here, in short, is elitism. Unchecked, presumed to have been neutralized in some way by the adoption of a counter-cultural ethos, it festers. The way to solve it, however, is not to shy away from studying or exposing bourgeois propaganda, but to delve even deeper and radicalize our understanding of it. In my view, this entails accepting that the main way propaganda safeguards power today — whether patriarchal or anticommunist or white supremacist or environmental — is through licensing people to embrace resignation as the smartest choice. This is achieved by demoralization, and the ruling class has received a lot of support from radical thinkers in this endeavor ever since “brainwashing” as political theory went mainstream.
I’ve seen this attitude and arguments made from the “smart” position of resignation here on Hexbear many times. :disgost:
Which makes it all the more weirder that the FBI head is claiming it’s dangerous.
I guess to them it is more advantageous to use TikTok to generate more China bad news, they probably are satisfied with all the other avenues for propaganda they have.
The people of the US state apparatus are not immune to propaganda.
The biggest issue with America’s incredible power to propagandise people these days is that this propaganda works on itself. These people believe their own media. They believe their own propaganda. And it influences poor policy decision making internally.
Seems that way, but TikTok is eating away at Facebook and Youtube in the global south. I know more kids in Guatemala that use TikTok than Youtube nowadays and see young women filming TikToks constantly. Haven’t seen anything like this since the early days of Youtube. Only Twitch comes close to TikTok’s popularity and that’s only because of the Spanish streamers being as big as they are.
