TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained

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by doener • 1 year ago

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xdennis• 1 year ago

This is so performative. No one in the US government is trying to stop you from criticizing Trump. Ironically that's what you do need to do on the Chinese version of TikTok.

throw0101d• 1 year ago

No one in the US government is trying to stop you from criticizing Trump.

"CBS weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture" (in her own private account, not when doing her job):

* https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/22/cbs-...

Self-censorship and capitulation is a thing (see MetaBook's changes in policy, Amazon removing DEI references). Czesław Miłosz wrote about in Communist Poland:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind

The security detail on Fauci was yanked:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg49jz7v8no

Trump ex-NSA Bolton had security detail yanked, even though there are credible security threats against him (people have already been arrested):

* https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/23/trump-security-deta...

(It was under Biden that Pompeo and Bolton had the detail for the last few years, so even a member of the opposite party didn't hold a grudge against them.)

One doesn't have to do things 'directly' to have something happen:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_tur...

davidt84• 1 year ago

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

jacknews• 1 year ago

BS.

"Some are promoting the date January 29th as a day of protest."

Who? Is promoting Lunar (aka Chinese) New Year as a day of protest, I wonder?

This looks very much like Chinese propaganda to me.

TikTok's 'cute winter boots' trend explained

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