Resisting tyranny takes a lot of forms.
Anyone else feeling particularly radicalized by the TikTok ban?
I’ve been on edge all day. Scrolling through the app seeing all my favorite creators say goodbye. Crying at the thought of their small businesses failing. It’s been heartbreaking to see.
Unanimous. The Supreme Court voted unanimously to ban this app. Before gun control. Before healthcare reform. Before anything. The whole government is more worried about a fucking app.
It’s because they don’t want us communicating. If you keep the ants separated it takes a lot longer for things to happen amongst them. All I’ll say is this.. let this radicalize you, we need your rage.
Oh ok so it turns out ive been borrowing grief from the future ! it turns out ive been preparing to lose the things i love rather than basking in the light of them while they last. Maybe i should nt do that
the upcoming tiktok ban/forced US buyout is obviously bad for a myriad of reasons but it is undeniably very funny that the motive behind targeting tiktok specifically was an attempt to get The American Youth to be less sympathetic towards China and it turns out that the segment of The American Youth online enough to have been influenced by that kind of stuff just jumped ship to RedNote, where they've reportedly been realizing that Chinese people use the internet too and are really funny. i don't want to make any grandiose sweeping statements about how this is counteracting years of sinophobic US govt propaganda but this is the most pro-China i've seen the reddit-and-tiktok Overton window in, like, ever. so the "stop The American Youth from sympathizing with China" initiative has backfired before even passing and had the exact opposite intended effect. and there's still time for Musk to bumble in and make a ridiculous offer for a buyout and run tiktok into the ground after renaming it "Y"
ngl the mushrooms and the light sensitive autistics kinda cooked with "sitting in a dark room"
OH MY GOD I FOUND IT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR AGES
USA people! Buy NOTHING Feb 28 2025. Not anything. 24 hours. No spending. Buy the day before or after but nothing. NOTHING. February 28 2025. Not gas. Not milk. Not something on a gaming app. Not a penny spent. (Only option in a crisis is local small mom and pop. Nothing. Else.) Promise me. Commit. 1 day. 1 day to scare the shit out of them that they don't get to follow the bullshit executive orders. They don't get to be cowards. If they do, it costs. It costs.
Then, if you can join me for Phase 2. March 7 2025 thtough March 14 2025? No Amazon. None. 1 week. No orders. Not a single item. Not one ebook. Nothing. 1 week. Just 1.
If you live outside the USA boycott US products on February 28 2025 and stand in solidarity with us and also join us for the week of no Amazon.
Are you with me?
Spread the word.
We need to stop telling people to check out of politics. Bro, you just don't want hear us bitch. Trump signed to end an anti-discriminaton act. My home state is trying to make divorce impossible. People have every right to be pissed off. Let the negativity fester. Maybe then we'll get shit done.
The ancient greeks were right about one thing, at least.