Congress wants to SQUEEZE you until you pop.

[@tiatauscher1303]

More even than keeping people expolited and depleted, the real goal is the loss of community organization.

[@WillowEtain]

We should all stop working. Together. Across industries

[@judithmccrea2601]

National strike!

[@Toastcat890]

If Trump does mass deportations, tariffs and Musk fires most of the government workers we'll have a lot of angry unemployed people and that just fuel to the fire.

[@OutdoorLonghair]

May Day 2028!

[@ScottJohnson-tk7ql]

I think the cultural engagement taking place on RedNote between young American and Chinese users could be momentous and boost class consciousness in the Untied States.

[@HoneyBadger80886]

And China. Oligarchs gotta oligarch.

[@manderly33]

@@HoneyBadger80886 Yeah, as great as this cultural exchange is, I hope people maintain a degree of skepticism about how fab mainland China is. It’s a repressive regime. Remember Hong Kong.

[@ScottJohnson-tk7ql]

@@ manderly33 In unstable times, many kinds of people become tolerant of creeping authoritarianism, not to mention supportive.

[@ebonyblack7272]

That's the thing with a narsacist system, their greed is always their inevitable undoing. No amount of control or exploitation is ever enough for long. They'll squeeze more and more because that's their nature. Not to be happy, not be satisfied, but in pursuit of more because enough is never enough until it's nothing at all.

[@urbansurvivalist411]

Bottom line.....It was the one platform they didn't outright own.

[@LilChuunosuke]

This squeeze always hits disabled people first and it's hitting us hard. My best friend, at only 27 years old, is currently filing for bankruptcy and feels trapped in an ocean of debt because he is not physically capable of working the amount that the machine demands of him. I personally am financially comfortable, but am working so hard that I barely have the capacity to care for myself. As they squeeze us tighter and tighter, please look out for the disabled people in your community first.

[@RowenaSnow-px3jg]

Thank you for remembering us ❤❤

[@nancyseiler2844]

Exactly! It about time these ideas get out and spread. Thanks.

[@AndyCroat-v6d]

No lies told.

[@jonathanandrews6548]

It's not just the Congress, it's banks and the financial sector.

[@amarbyrd2520]

Not only is it MORE the (unregulated!) banks and financial sector ... it was Donald's 2030 executive order that made Tik Tok "a problem" in the first place - Professor Keith Boykin put out a whole video yesterday

[@akinaharris4587]

I honestly believe the squeeze has been tightening over the years. TikTok gave Americans the well-needed breather, but since now that it'll be gone on Sunday...well, the people will be squeezed, but that squeeze will be so tight thanks to trump's policies, we'll end up popping

[@ayceinquisitor190]

Fireworks

[@Juan_lauda]

It’s easy to see how people are really upset about this

[@dArtagnan712]

The whole game in a nutshell! Thank you!

[@Joseph_Knight]

You can use a VPN to get around the ban

[@judithmccrea2601]

Kids know this! 😊

[@nancyseiler2844]

I also wonder if some friend of those in power wants to buy TikTok and get its value for his/her/their own profit.

[@amarbyrd2520]

Exactly this ^^^

[@theebestlyfe]

I am happy to see you here. I am commenting to help you be seen by the YT algorithm. Although this is a bad nightmare, I hope we can come together and make the right changes to overcome what we now face. Hoping we all can build a community free from the greed, bots, and hate online. I hope to see if the right people learned from history and knows what to do next, including the people.

[@realdeal444]

Love this woman! What about going on a mortgage/rent strike? For 3 months, see what happens? I’m like what do you have to lose at this point. “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”

[@GargoyleMistress30]

Funny I get an ad from a local mega church that bannered Praise the lord across the screen….🤔 wonder if you got the ad cents from that. Which money to a Good cause😂

[@saraivy]

UUUUGGGHHH THIS IS SO GOOD!! Is there a way to make this shareable on IG?

[@cocdcy]

Having an algorithm that doesn't filter/censor based on American interests is unallowable to them anymore. I also think about the squeezing part, disabled people do get squeezed and "pop" and we're told that it's just the cost of doing business/some people are going to fall by the wayside.

[@AuntieMamies]

Set up a patreon. I do hope your tik tok followers follow you to this app but KZbinrs almost always end up on Patreon because it's just more profitable. Your content is important and I would hate to see it go away

[@ZeKiwiOfTheNorth]

Her patreon is linked in the video description

[@AuntieMamies]

@ZeKiwiOfTheNorth ty. Didn't see that

[@debkuralt7794]

How can we support you here on KZbin to help you as you lose your income on TikTok? I am heading over to your patreon page after I type this but how else can we help? You are an important voice that needs to continue to be heard. Also sending love to you and your family today for your sweet dog. I hope the vet can help.

[@sl-lz3dw]

Nothing new here. We need to get ourselves where we DON'T depend on government or businesses, and then become the source of our own governance.

[@Toastcat890]

Good luck with that.

[@sl-lz3dw]

@@Toastcat890 One step at a time my friend, but keep an eye on the objective. Currently labor is getting more militant and while baristas and amazon workers are fighting for progress dock workers seem to have given some encouraging results. Let enough people get to where the issues aren't food clothing and shelter, but workers on the boards of directors and people only willing to "wish luck" may want on board. The ONLY thing that assures failure is giving up.

[@dead_inside674]

What do you do when you bitterly hate both shitty corrupt parties? Asking for my god damned self

[@judithmccrea2601]

We are about to see. The fan is moving and the manure is hot!!!!

[@gaycryptidhours]

Educate as many people as you can on how the system actually works, in words they can understand. Orgs like wagingnonviolence has information.

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

Biden was making a difference and you folks didn't give a shit and gave him the finger instead and then can't imagine why the party ignored you

[@sophiasometimes9818]

Mutual aid in your community

[@dead_inside674]

@@sophiasometimes9818 no

[@suzilouden5964]

"Let them eat cake".....said Marie Antoinette before she got real familiar with Madame Guillotine in 1763. The past is fast catching up with good ole Merica...

[@manderly33]

A) she didn’t say that, and B) she was not in charge and probably should not have been murdered.

[@suzilouden5964]

@manderly33 oh dear 🤣....it's an expression of the disdain the landed gentry in the 18c had for the peasants they royally screwed over at every opportunity. As for her being guilty....well she was guilty by association - in a time when that rule applied to peasants at a far worse rate....😏

[@GodMath3]

It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war. This was always the case against making a living on these platforms. You have no control, why would you put all your eggs in that basket? Just isn't wise. Now maybe those people will do something productive in the world instead of just preach about it while expecting someone else to do the heavy lifting out here.

[@myurbangarden7695]

Most of the TikTokers were FULL TIME employees but the DISCRETIONARY spending for travel and savings. No one put all their eggs in one basket because MOST full time content creators are multi platformed

[@theartofbelcanto]

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[@khd7271]

So, I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand, yes, I completely agree that this was an extraordinarily draconian move ...one that was likely passed to further our oppression. On the other, I am legit worried about China's new carrier that will support 50,000 drones. It launched yesterday, and I think we are actually gonna end up fighting those guys over Taiwan in less than 5 years. We may have been giving our near-future enemies our most intimate data, reaching far beyond anything the NSA can collect on the people of China to balance the strategic scales. I just don't know how to feel about this. These are confusing times.

[@TheAzul_Indigo]

_You_ don’t have to fight them just because the government wants to. It’s not like the ccp will show up at your house if they don’t like what you post.

[@ZeKiwiOfTheNorth]

Many companies here are gathering all the same info and more, and are going to have a direct hand in any fights we do get into. Our plutocrats are actively working against our interests now, not in the near-future.

[@khd7271]

​@ Does that mean we're assuming the intelligence committees were knowingly pumping out 100% bullshit propaganda? I can see them doing this 'for national security purposes'. Their rationale could be that TikTok (though likely not 'spying' for the CCP at the moment) was depriving the industrial complex of workers to make shells and bandages. That is still equally sick and terrible, and makes my body hurt all over.

[@f_youtubecensorshipf_nazis]

you keep needlessly antagonizing them and what do you think happens? I llived through this nonsense int he 80s with the anti communism crap. That's what this is, capitalism needs you to be afraid of something because they are taking over

[@soulfulgardener]

So China knows that some people watch cat videos and other like anime and still others are selling aromatherapy. Sounds positively dangerous 😂