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Another hypothesis: TikTok is under threat because it is the only large social media platform that is not actively under the thumb of the Censorship Industrial Complex...yet.

The playbook is clear: play ball or get banned.

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Is there some difference you're positing between TikTok and other social media? I guess just that TikTok is the platform of choice for young people?

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Exactly that.

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and the #boycottmaybelline will be even bigger. Women are being erased everyday and it amazes me how many women are taking the other side and not standing up like Riley Gaines.

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I dont do tik tok but if you type in bud kid rock it will come up. Mr Mulvaney has been given a deal with maybelline. #boycottmaybelline is trending on twitter. I surely will not buy a product that thinks a man dressing up as a woman does women better.

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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Thomas Neuburger

This is exactly what we need- an educated, informed & angry electorate. They do have nothing left to lose- these kids are struggling just to get by, & now states are stripping them of their bodily autonomy too?!? The only way the insanity is going to stop is, as you say Thomas, when enough us to stand up & say “no more”

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Exactly, if you’re talking about the vaccine, almost ALL the states pushed the vaccine injections on their citizens and America was sadly one of the better countries at preserving our freedom than most. Some they literally tried to starve people out by not letting them get into supermarkets. Florida and Texas were some of the only states with any sense. People lost their jobs, many died because even if they knew they were allergic, were forced to take an injection and die but the media won’t talk about it…that wouldn’t be good for their side, the side of putting regular people out of work and closing down their businesses. They don’t want you to have any power, supporting yourself is the real power they want to sever you from that’s why they want you to go to their school, work at their companies, eat food from their farms, drink water from their water systems, etc etc. it’s ridiculous. I talk to people who are older than me, some even in COLLEGE AND THEY DONT KNOW SHIT! They keep trying to act like they’re the most intelligent generation ever and I can’t figure out why. Statistically IQ scores are getting LOWER, innovation is decreasing except for computing which is mostly outsourced by now anyway. This country has a lot of problems and the people in charge are making sure we don’t pay attention to any of it

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I think you know that’s not remotely what I meant, & I stopped at FL & TX having sense. Troll some else- I dumped most of my social media to avoid folks like yourself 🖕

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Comment removed. I appreciate the vigorous debate, but not abusive attacks. Rephase?

Thomas

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Comment removed. I appreciate the vigorous debate, but not abusive attacks. Rephase?

Thomas

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Don't kid yourself. As long as the police and army will still shoot when ordered to do so, Macron and his ilk can rest easy, for if the cost of maintaining their grip on power is a wholesale massacre of citizens, they will do it and never lose a minute's sleep.

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It would be interesting (and horrific) to see what the French would to if the gendarmes were to fire live ammo into a crowd. I suspect we'd take it more easily than they would.

As they often say, "On n'est pas Français pour rien." We're not French for nothing.

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Keep in mind that the ruling class in France, like in the US, consists of people whose behavior is indistinguishable from that of sociopaths.

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i wonder why BLM failed the critical mass test. was it the timing (during covid), or the burning buildings (possibly provocateurs), or the money issues (disappearing money). BLM was supposed to be the ‘civil rights movement’ of our era, but when it came to voting for actual reforms the Members of Congress most closely aligned with GenZ voted for massive increases in policing budgets. i wonder what the missing piece is here?

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BLM failed because they were more evil than any of the old idiots in power. They burned people alive, killed children, were unbelievably racist while hypocritically preaching against (one type of) racism. All of their demands were ridiculous and when it came to CHOP/CHAZ trying to run their own societies it became clear that they were far more evil than even the worst dictators of today. Within the first day guns came out, then you had to pay money to black people if you weren’t black, then they cried about not getting power/utilities so the state gov just gave it to them otherwise they would have died. They couldn’t even grow simple plants. They tried to put blotches of dirt in areas and then their own followers destroyed it. I’m a little young, probably too young to be in GEN Z and with the way me and my friends are talking, Gen Z is going to have to deal with us if you plan any more stupid shit like the genocidal BLM dictatorship.

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it was all about the benjamins and taking $$ from the man.

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It was the standing down. A storm that blew over. Always happens that way when America is called to criticize cops. People remember their CSI training — most cops are good; cops keep you safe — and fade away.

If cop critics don't persist, and escalate, they will always lose. Same with the anti-Iraq War effort, BTW. In my opinion anyway.

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It was the standing down? BLM killed kids and burned people alive…how many more people did you want to be killed. Please give me an exact number I want to know EXACTLY who you are

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Apr 26, 2023Liked by Thomas Neuburger

this is why there has been a critical mass protest against budweiser. Tik tok Kid Rock blasting the bud cans. John Rich tik toking about it. Social media spreads.....

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The Budweiser boycott was a surprise. I thought that thing would fail immediately but it was the first positive action of protest I’ve seen in my lifetime

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Interesting. Links?

Thomas

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