Donald Trump offers up a thoughtful critique of Chinese control over social media:
If you are going to do it to TikTok, do it to Facebook. And what you can do is let them sell TikTok. Let them sell it in the market.... Take it away from China control. But I think China controls Facebook, also. Because they have tremendous power in that company.
Set aside Trump's screw-loose maundering about China controlling Facebook. The more fascinating question is: Do what to Facebook? What precisely does Donald have in mind?
And also: Do interviewers even bother with followup questions any longer when they talk to Trump? Or is the pretense that he makes any sense not worth the trouble anymore?
So, Kevin, man, you need to open your mind, y'know? and stop stressing over all these "questions" and "making sense" and stuff. See, you gotta take Him seriously, not literally, sorta like Dadaist poetry, y'know? Like, that it doesn't make sense actually makes sense, right? [giggle] It's not like what he says, it's what he means. Like, it's all in your head, y'know? [sniff]
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That's where I went camping last year.
Do you know how far away from Kevin that is?
Let's just say I live eight hours drive from Kevin on a normal day. He'd have to drive that, plus twice the distance more.
I believe the accepted term is that whatever he says is perfect.
He has the biggest, most beautiful brain!
I keep hoping to see someone do something to trump. And Biden letting him get intelligence briefings is the dumbest idea yet. I guess Biden is lying when he says trump is dangerous.
They just want to see how fast it ends up in Moscow.
I think so. If the US intelligence community was smart (heh!), they'd plant some plausible disinfo, to see when and where it turns up.
I still don't believe the government has gotten back all its classified.
No, no, let's not gloss over "China controls Facebook." Does he not realize Meta is publicly traded on the NASDAQ? Or is he just trying to slag a "competitor" to TruthSocial?
With conspiracy theories, anything is possible. Let's guess what is going on --
The Deep State controls the government, and Democrats control the Deep State. Social media companies are controlled by Democrats too, and they secretly collaborate with the Deep State. That’s bad enough, but Democrats are also extreme left wing, and these extreme left wingers are secretly communists. China is communist, and the US communists running social media companies collaborate with them. Thus, Facebook is controlled by communists in China.
Speaking of Chinese control, the SPAC that is merging with Trump Media (aka Truth Social), is funded with billions via a Chinese bank.
I think China already controls Trump.
You previously asked just how much news gets served up on TikTok. The flaw with your analysis is obvious, right? When you ask people where they get their news from, it's increasingly from TikTok, with 1/3 of adults under 30 using TikTok to get their news.
When you dig into the numbers people who use TikTok for news are among the least educated.
The longer you wait to ban/force divestiture of TikTok, the harder it will get.
"Do interviewers even bother with followup questions any longer when they talk to Trump?"
Why? They have their quote, they can file their story or their tape and it's happy hour. You think too much of these clowns.
This may be a tad unfair, no? There are excellent people in the profession--just like in any other profession.
But do you think the Defendant would get within a mile of their mics? No way!
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Trump works like an AI chatbot. Those learn to string nouns, verbs and adverbs together so that they represent a grammatically correct English sentence. The bot does not care about "meaning", indeed it is incapable to comprehend the meaning of "meaning." Equally, Trump strings together words so they sound ok to him (not grammatically correct, mind you); he has no clue if anything of it means anything because "meaning" is outside his mental range.
Hence what's the point of follow up questions?
This also explains the "AI hallucinations", which when output by a human, are called "lies."