Too powerful? It's the only way to survive daily life without going stark raving mad. It's a legit coping mechanism, better than substances if you can make it work.
His lawyer argued presidents can assassinate their political opponents at the Supreme Court today, and as if that's not bad enough, they seem receptive to it.
Buddo, if you think crackhead lawyers arguing "The president ordering political assassinations is OK" is gonna fly and be the law of the land, I have a bridge to sell you!
Or, if youre right, Dark Brandon is about to be reeeeeeaaaaal busy.
A lawyer has a duty to attempt the most favorable outcome for their client, even if the methodology is insane. So long as it can be squeezed into some sort of logical interpretation of the law, or to argue the law is improper. It doesn't mean they actually believe their own bullshit necessarily.
When they're literally being forced to sell the price will drop and the billionaire class would be happy to take over the social media site with all the potential young voters.
They won't win many voters by taking over TikTok, but they can absolutely convince people to not bother voting, which is all they really need to win.
Tik Tok won't be forced to sell. Even assuming the the ban survives the various lawsuits, the most that will happen is that the app will be banned (on American app stores) and Tik Tok will continue on like nothing happened. Americans are a minority on the app.
On top of that "China" only owns about 20% of the company, the rest is international investors.
ByteDance saying they might rather shut it down than sell it shows that operating a silly dance app for profit was never their motive. The fact that at the mere notion of a forced sale our politicians were bombarded by death threats shows the platform was already weaponized.
The USA has less to benefit from the destruction of the USA compared to China. I wouldn't be surprised if people's personal data was given directly to the gangs running "Pig Butchering" scams, too.
Hair’s hair; it’s really not weirder to make it from dog hair as opposed to alpaca, sheep or any other. Though I imagine some dog breeds produce better hair for it than others.
In terms of territory annexed maybe, but in terms of direct cultural reach the US has far outstripped both.
We're going to be seeing the aftershocks of the US' contribution to global culture and media long after the bones of the last American have become an archeologist's study project
A world power influences others to copy them, during the Roman Empire they were the most influential and had the greatest cultural reach, same with the British.
As time goes by and technology allows for greater interconnectivity and a countries ability to influence others increases. Chances are the next world power will continue this trend and take over with their culture.
Actually not really, during the Roman Empire China was the cultural hegemon
In fact so much so that stoicism sprung up because Roman aristocrats were big mad at how much money was going into buying Chinese silk. Shit Rome wasn't even the cultural hegemon of Rome, Greece was, and then Christendom became the hegemon.
As for the British Empire, I'd argue that France was actually the cultural hegemon at that time, or at least punching even with others.
Interesting, I wouldn't have thought the Romans were that influenced by the Chinese empire, I knew of the silk road and the cost of silk. But my understanding was the middle men between both nations jacking up the price combined with the long distance materials needed to travel.
That said I agree that a large proportion of Roman culture was influenced by the Greeks, but couldn't the same thing be said (to a much lesser extent of course) of the US and the British; Both countries have a shared history, a common language, an overlap in religious beliefs and legal principles.
My point being each empire builds off the previous one and with advancement in technologies and the reduction in degrees of separation, the ability to propagate an empire's culture increases. America is hugely influential, but a part of that is they are the current world power in a world with the internet, being able to travel anywhere in the world in less than a day and most people being able to speak English.
This is not an attempt to undermine America's achievements, they are a world power for a reason, but it's my belief that powers following their fall will overtake them in cultural influence.
Would love to read your reply, personally love a good discussion about random shit like this.
