... but I looked at someone else's Tic Tok. It was like "America's Funniest Home Videos" updated for today.

And totally f6cked it up. The "Watermelon people" decided to either sit on their hands or vote for tRUMP and TT was one of the main motivators for those idiots.

The idiotic 5-minute-crafts, and impossible AI recipe channel is now their news channel?? That explains a lot and it's very disappointing.

people could go to to get their news for real.

Or a democratic-leaning programmer smart enough to create a social media platform that could become popular enough to rival all those others owned by the bad guys.

I so totally don't get it.

The dumbing down of American continues unabated. That is a Chinese government owned/created app makes me wonder if it is not intentional or just dumb luck. It is one thing to get news there, but quite another to accept it out of the gate, especially when some "journalists" are nothing more than influencers and don't know shit about the subjects they are peddling.

That was apparent 2-3 years ago and I'm sure it's much worse now with the billionaire kleptocracy in full, unbridled power. Thanks to the fat orange imbecile.

Is the ability to share the information and participate in action in real time. The community driven countermeasures to the ICE raids is an example that is empowered by the live feeds and shared posts.

There are real journalists on social media,on TikTok. And many TikTokers dive deep into particular issues. There are doctors, lawyers, artists, gardeners, craftsmen, engineers.

People who dismiss the platform, don't use it. They have this caricature of the users based on their ignorance of the platform.

I mean DU should be on TikTok more. Seriously.

A whole generation is now only partially tethered to reality, and will make their voting decisions based on "influencers" spin on the news and AI generated slop.

If we think things are bad now, just wait.

(Yes, I am an old man yelling at clouds.)