r/technology Jan 19 '25

Social Media TikTok is down in the US

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us
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u/NoCaterpillar1584 Jan 19 '25

Trump needs this, he won’t be able to lower the price of groceries or gas and he’s already flip-flopped on immigrants (H1B visas). Even though bringing TikTok back is a manufactured stunt, it’s still a “look what I did for you” moment.

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u/BitDaddyCane Jan 19 '25

Look what I did for you peasants! You still can't afford bread but the circus is free!

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u/Rizzpooch Jan 19 '25

The amount of obviousness to the political stunts is getting really pathetic

Bibi gets a ceasefire in Gaza days before Trump comes into office like Reagan with the Iran hostages. Biden’s people did the negotiating.

Trump gets credit for saving TikTok even though he was the one who called for a ban in the first place and Biden said his admin wouldn’t enforce the law and offered a 36-hour official deferment.

Meanwhile, Trump scheduled a withdrawal from Afghanistan for basically the day after Biden gets into office and does practically nothing to prepare for it; Biden gets all the blame for a chaotic withdrawal.

Trump massively fucks yo the pandemic but signs his name to stimulus checks, delaying their release by weeks, but Biden gets the economic albatross hung around his neck and Trump gets reelected

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u/snarkdiva Jan 19 '25

Rinse and repeat. This BS has been going on for decades. The republicans come in and fuck things up, a dem gets elected and fixes it, and on it goes.