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SilvosForever posted...

I'll blame everyone who could have done a small thing to help prevent it, but chose not to.

I sincerely hope you've convinced everyone you know in real life to vote blue because every vote counts even more now.

If Biden does win handily, what ends up happening to Trump? Will SCOTUS still save him anyway?

Sometimes, choosing the lesser evil is the only moral option.

https://www.rawstory.com/oklahoma-republican-arrested/

That face says it all.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/7b7c1a8e.jpg

gmanthebest posted...

But that one Hamasabi interviewed was just like Luffy from One Piece!

That video had a lot of positive comments from his fans if I remember correctly.

Murphiroth posted...

It's still extremely exaggerated news. Why are you buying into it and spreading it?

In what way is the claim "people on TikTok were sympathetic to Bin Laden" exaggerated?

FortuneCookie posted...

If your life is imperiled by the outcome of the election, blame Biden. Not me. All he had to do to guarantee reelection was to stop funding genocide and he refused.

No, you'll be blamed whether you like it or not.

Trelve posted...

Remember when people were cheering on the houthis?

I remember.

Doe posted...

It'd be liking making a topic on CE where you said "Remember When People on Twitter were Sympathetic to Adolf Hitler" except you'd have to do it every day because that's how much that type of content on Twitter daily dwarfs the size of videos about Osama that were ever on tiktok.

It's poor reporting that distorts public perception & understanding and is very likely one element that pushed lawmakers forward with the tiktok ban despite US based social medias like Twitter and Facebook having much bigger hate speech footprints.

So you agree that Twitter and Facebook should be banned too, right?

Mystereave posted...

So we're going to get Trump again, fan-fucking-tastic.

Good fucking job, Biden. Your incompetent ass has basically doomed the country. Everyone fucking hates you, you can't fucking do anything right, and you can go join Hillary in the corner of shame for being the only fucking people in existence who can actually throw an election to Donald Trump.

Tagged as troll.

Doe posted...

Fake / extremely exaggerated news

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213712136/tik-tok-bin-laden-videos-osama

Whether the video went viral or not, it doesn't change the fact that individuals were actually expressing sympathy for Bin Laden of all people.

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In before some tankie comes out to denounce us for being complicit of the genocide at Gaza despite the fact that almost everyone here is against it.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/tiktok-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/index.html

Dozens of young Americans have posted videos on TikTok this week expressing sympathy with Osama bin Laden, the notorious terrorist who orchestrated the September 11 attacks, for a two-decade-old letter he wrote critiquing the United States, including its government and support of Israel.

The letter, which attempts to justify the targeting and killing of American civilians, was first published in 2002. It began to recirculate this week on the social media platform, and videos on the topic had garnered at least 14 million views by Thursday. Many of the videos, which supported some of Bin Ladens assertions and urged other users to read the letter, were shared in the wider context of criticism of American support for Israel in its ongoing war against Hamas.

TikTok said on Thursday that videos promoting the letter violate its rules against supporting any form of terrorism. The company said the number of videos promoting the letter were small and added reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate.

TikTok declined to provide specific data to support this assertion.

TikTok is hugely popular with young Americans, with a majority of Americans under 30 using the app at least once a week, according to a KFF survey. Many of TikToks users were born after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks when 19 men hijacked commercial airliners, intentionally crashed the planes, and killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, Washington, DC, and rural Pennsylvania. The attack was orchestrated by Bin Laden, the former leader of the al Qaeda terrorist group who was killed in a US special forces raid in 2011.

TikToks design makes it difficult to precisely measure how popular or widespread a sentiment is on the platform, but an initial CNN review found a few dozen videos overtly praising or sympathizing with the sentiments expressed in the letter, which is titled Letter to America.

Many of the videos were shared with the hashtag #lettertoamerica. By Thursday, views of those videos had exceeded 14 million, yet some videos were from users expressing frustration and disgust about the letter and how it was being praised by others on the platform.

In one video no longer available on the platform that had been viewed more than 1.6 million times, a New York-based lifestyle influencer encouraged others to read the letter and said, if you have read it, let me know if you are also going through an existential crisis in this very moment, because in the last 20 minutes, my entire viewpoint on the entire life I have believed, and I have lived, has changed.

The video was later removed. CNN has reached out to the user for comment.

In another video viewed more than 100,000 times, a TikTok user who regularly posts criticisms of the American government said of the letter, If were going to call Osama bin Laden a terrorist, so is the American government.

A White House spokesman slammed the apparent online trend in a statement, calling it an insult to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks.

There is never a justification for spreading the repugnant, evil, and antisemitic lies that the leader of al Qaeda issued just after committing the worst terrorist attack in American history highlighting them as his direct motivation for murdering 2,977 innocent Americans, deputy press secretary Andrew Bates told CNN.

No one should ever insult the 2,977 American families still mourning loved ones by associating themselves with the vile words of Osama bin Laden, Bates added, particularly now, at a time of rising antisemitic violence in the world, and just after Hamas terrorists carried out the worst slaughter of the Jewish people since the Holocaust in the name of the same conspiracy theories.

Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, explained that TikTok incentivizes high engagement at all costs. The platform is utterly ruthless about whether it uses hate, disinformation, or positive content to keep you addicted. As such, the smart takes arent the ones that succeed. It is the dumb takes that get the most virality on a platform like TikTok.

Ahmed, who has been studying the rise of conspiracy theories among young people, told CNN that TikTok claims to be an entertainment machine but is really an indoctrination machine. Right now, we have no visibility nor any control over the algorithms that are shaping the minds of young people in America today, he explained.

The letter itself is a broad critique of American foreign policy that is also filled with antisemitic tropes and even repeats the conspiracy theory that AIDS was a Satanic American Invention.

There is a particular focus on US support for Israel. It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, it reads.

Peter Bergen, a CNN National Security Analyst who produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, said he finds the virality of the letter puzzling.

Most of the people were either not born or were very young children when Bin Laden and 9/11 happened, so they dont have much historical context.

Bergen, who has written several books on the deceased terrorist, remains skeptical of the letters origin. Theres no proof it was written by bin Laden and some of the things that he focuses on are inconsistent with his other writings, he told CNN.

On Wednesday, The Guardian newspaper, which first published a translated copy of the letter in 2002, removed it from its website after TikTok users linked directly to the document. In a statement, the newspaper said the letter published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared on social media without the full context. Therefore we have decided to take it down and direct readers to the news article that originally contextualized it instead.

The letter, however, is still available elsewhere online.

New data from the Pew Research Center released Wednesday shows TikTok is rapidly becoming a place where more and more young Americans get their news.

Nearly a third of Americans ages 18-29 regularly get news from TikTok, according to Pew and overall, the share of US adults who say they regularly get their news from TikTok has quadrupled from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023.

This did not need to happen, and yet...
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/1bpxgal/here_comes_the_story_of_marquis/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/1bnb9ym/casaba_was_still_posting_antivax_misinformation/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/1bkkj0c/here_comes_the_story_of_cliburn/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/1bjidne/here_comes_the_story_of_kenliony/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/1b5vlce/2022_nominee_buttercup_stopped_posting_covid/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/comments/1avqmfj/self_described_truth_warrior_ivermectin_proponent/

shyguybry posted...

Im terminally apathetic.

Or maybe you're just lazy?

Sheesh, the MAGA chuds are really something...
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Why hasn't this triggered another bout of BLM protests?

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1cdjb1p/russian_war_heroes_who_fought_in_russias_invasion/

JasonSehorn posted...

all they have to do is scare enough people off and it makes a difference instead of voting they will be like this isnt worth it thats what the rnc wants to stop people from voting or to scare them off

I would like to remind people that the RNC tried to suppress Georgia really hard only to be denied a win by voters who lined up all day just to hand Democrats an important victory.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1cdco9l/man_loses_his_retirement_investing_in_donald_trump/

In terms of gameplay mechanics, every playable character from Remake got improved one way or another in Rebirth.

Conservatives seem mad over this news.

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3kqyj7u2zqh27
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Hopefully, Democrats will encourage more people to vote by mail if they can.

Hospy posted...

Well, at least they caught him.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing more incidents like this in the near future.

Oh dear...

luigi33 posted...

Something people also are underestimating is thr apathy levels. You think they are bad now? Imagine this clear criminal being rewarded by being the most powerful person in the world. After being told repeatedly that "No one is above the law".

The chain reaction of this would lead to apathy levels so high that GOP would begin to win in deep blue areas because of so many jaded people completely believing the system cannot work anymore.

And somehow, tankies will continue blaming the Democrats while daydreaming of the revolution magically saving them all.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-pardons-11-people-commutes-134321786.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday pardoned 11 people and commuted the sentences of five others who had been convicted of non-violent drug offenses, the White House said, the latest in a series of such actions.

"Many of these individuals received disproportionately longer sentences than they would have under current law, policy, and practice," Biden said in a statement.

The United States has less than 5% of the world's population but a fifth of its prisoners. Last year the White House unveiled a plan to reduce "unnecessary" incarcerations, support rehabilitation for imprisoned people and help those getting out of prison re-enter society more successfully.

The White House said one of those pardoned by Biden is Dr. Katrina Polk, 54, of Washington, who pleaded guilty to a non-violent drug offense at the age of 18. Polk served her sentence, completed the terms of her supervised release and went on to earn a PhD in public policy and administration.

Last December Biden reduced the prison terms of 11 people serving decades-long sentences for non-violent drug charges and pardoned potentially thousands of others with federal or Washington, D.C. marijuana possession offenses.

Bump.

Xenogears15 posted...

Which link is that?

C_Pain's server: https://discord.com/invite/GNKvjnDRDz

What do you make of the whole "objectifying women is bad" trend going on in today's gaming scene? Is it considered harmful to make adult female protagonists sexually attractive in some way? How did it come to this?

Rika_Furude posted...

If you dont vote for Biden, and trump wins, you dont get to blame anyone but yourself. You are responsible for your choices. You dont get to absolve yourself of responsibility for allowing Trump to win knowing full well what he wants to do to women, minorities, and Palestine.

Very true. If these folks are so upset of being blamed if Trump wins, wouldn't it be easier for them to just vote blue and show proof while concealing their private information? It's only getting harder to vote in places where the GOP has won.

cjsdowg posted...

I have seen people on this very board tell others that they must be supporting Trump if they don't vote for Joe Biden. Despite all the horrible things that he is doing and those people saying that they will vote 3rd party of not at all. People still attack these folks . And I was wondering does Biden hold any Responsibility here at all. Like can he just do anything and people should vote for him if not some how they are the issue?

These people should just vote blue if they don't want to be criticized.

hmnut7 posted...

I hope 2016 taught us all the lesson that no matter how sure we our that the right person will win the election, we still have to go out and vote.

Seriously, it's 8 years later and we are STILL trying to recover from the damage of people staying home that one day in November.

This.

pegusus123456 posted...

The discord is far more active than I expected tbh

It's slowing down at the moment, though I imagine the number will pick up drastically if something extreme happens to CE yet again.

ScazarMeltex posted...

Are you denying that there is a genocide going on in Gaza?

No. Where did I even say that?

LightHawKnight posted...

The thing is, the only really awful thing Biden really has done is what every single US president would have done, support Israel. So much of the good stuff he does never ever gets mentioned for some reason. Even by Democrats.

That's because a lot of people on the left don't typically like tooting their horn all that much. If you ask me, that kind of attitude needs to stop as voters need to be reminded of the good things that can come from a Democrat-led government.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-join-arizona-democrats-vote-194400753.html

Three Republicans voted alongside the Democrats.

Doom_Art posted...

Why don't people like Biden? Are they stupid?

Well...

https://bsky.app/profile/ubernostrum.bsky.social/post/3kqw3wi6o7x2q
https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/04/22/biden-harris-administration-issues-new-rule-support-reproductive-health-care-privacy-under-hipaa.html
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/3f16fb44.jpg

Unfortunately, there's an element of truth to it with tankies and Russian bots coopting support for Palestine in order to prop up animosity against Ukraine and the West.

Cassie posted...

whats the link

It's in my signature: https://discord.gg/ThGKk5UaK6

There are currently 300+ members in the CE server and most of them don't seem to be malicious trolls.

https://twitter.com/llambduh/status/1783255387463950498

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24139307/fcc-vote-net-neutrality-rules-rosenworcel-telecom

Would this have been possible under a second Trump term?

NPC posted...

I thought there was 57

Here comes the whataboutism. Right on cue.