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steveBK123 • yesterday at 1:05 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Not every observation of probable graft is TDS.

Give me the steel man argument for how Trump flipping 180 degrees on TikTok wasn't a cash grab crony capitalism / why he couldn't do the same on any other regulatory subject.


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8note • yesterday at 3:09 PM

he went along with what the US establishment consensus wanted - tiktok to be part of the US propaganda machine.

biden signed the ban into law, and yet did not enforce it.

trump flipped for election gain more than anything; he realized people like tiktok, and that that would set him apart from biden with genz voters.

everything trump does is a cash grab, but thats the implementation rather than the goal

t_gamer_kle • yesterday at 1:57 PM

Concession to China as part of long term work towards peace deal (of Xi visit).

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