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Taylor LorenzRacism levels off the charts at today’s KOSA hearing
Thero RandoAverage Senator moment
Space@taylorlorenz Yeah, and he got all anti-semetic on Zuckerberg, too!
Stupid too. Not sure he understands that Singapore is not part of China. If he did, why keep heading down the wrong road.
"Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn@taylorlorenz @Brendan Cotton apparently thinks this line of questioning will lead to some sort of proof that TikTok is conspiring with the government of China to steal the hearts, minds, & personal data of America’s Youth. But even if that is true, asking questions pulled from the “marked down for stupidity” bin at Racists-R-Us isn’t the way to research it.
unexpectedteapot@Gorfram TikTok hosts their servers in China, and occasionally been reported to share data with the Chinese authorities by their own employees' admission:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Chinese_government_data_collection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Data_transfer_class_action_lawsuit
They also have been studied to have manipulated their algorithms to censor and/or amplify certain topics: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/business/tiktok-china.html
But yes, average redneck senator who is driven by lazy conservative racist ideas. Horrible questioning.
Comrade Weez
Hank Hill: So are you Chinese or Japanese??
Paper Clip@weezmgk @Brendan @taylorlorenz
The follow-up scene with, uh, Cotton is glorious, also:
Cotton Meets Kahn - King of the Hill
CavyherdOh ffs. Well, at least it nudged me off my duff & I called my representative, so that's something....
Dane Deasy@taylorlorenz Wow. What a bunch of shitty questions.
DinCA 🏳️🌈 🎾 🐶 🖖🥄@taylorlorenz Tom Cotton is pathetic.
Ryan Lounsbury@taylorlorenz I running out of words for the stupidity that comes out of some senators mouths.
Michael Busch@rlounsbury @taylorlorenz Tom Cotton is an omnibigoted liar with a history of similar behavior that goes back to when he was a undergraduate student at Harvard in the 1990s if not before.
That is malice, not ignorance.
(Just like it was malice, not ignorance, when Cotton pretended to not know the law as part of his calling for the US military to attack Americans protesting racist mass murder.)
Angie@taylorlorenz oh wow!
benny windolph@taylorlorenz isnt ByteDance a chinese company? Maybe it is a question to ask if he is in any way associated with the chinese regime and not a about origin?
WikiParty@taylorlorenz The new McCarthyism
Allan Chow@taylorlorenz guy may as well have pulled his eyes back and repeated the question
PatrikSpurzem
Allan Svelmøe Hansen@taylorlorenz Oh I'm sure he has "old friends from Singapore" so it's not definitely not racism/bigotry....... *rolleyes*
Seriousity the Wolf🐺senator thinks singapore is a province of china, lol
xs4me2Hey, Joe McCarthy was a Republican too!
vieuxnezLike some sort of deranged delusional Perry Mason trying to solve the murder after someone has already pointed out the murder victim is still alive.
PsycodepathQuestion: how much of a retarded bigot trying to push your agenda are you?
Tom Cotton: Yes.
CodeByJeff@taylorlorenz want to bet he's confused Singapore with Shanghai?
(Prolly not. He's prolly just a racist fuckwit who has no clue about anything Asian)
shulhanWow, just wow. I don't think its racism, he just a plain idiot, ignorance, and arrogant.
Glenn@taylorlorenz Joe McCarthy is back
Cantard@taylorlorenz eh, I think the objective was to see if he could find the line where the executive would provide a politically correct answer for China’s government. He may not be Chinese, but his company does have ownership by a company in China (ByteDance).
Steven Barnhart@Cantard @taylorlorenz yeah. Racist statements about the communist party to him but he did dodge the question about the Chinese genocide.
@StevenBarnhart @taylorlorenz I couldn’t help noticing the video cut off on the Chinese genocide question.
Charlotte
ChateauNeuf@taylorlorenz Racism is in fact a tool used everytime people are facing intellectual limits, destabilisation, jealousy, wickedness, stupidity or simply incomprehension : you choose.
fazelium@taylorlorenz his self-confidence and stupidity is too dangerous.