Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/03/china-will-not-accept-theft.html
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This is what we’re bickering over? A fucking app? What’s going to happen when they or us have something we all need, like a vaccine?
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This really is the stupidest timeline…
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Or like, microprocessors, printet circuit boards, consumer electronics,…
It’s like closing the stable after the oxen are already escaped.
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Somehow this indeed feels like the correct answer to this, though. Doesn’t it?
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Who cares?
Sarah Cooper is on YouTube too.
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Donald Trump: US Treasury should get cut of TikTok deal
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So, a sort of… tax, Donnie? Gee, what a unique and never before discussed concept…
Trump’s taking a page from China’s shitty playbook, although I’m sure there are personal reasons for going after TikTok rather than, say, WeChat.
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Well, let’s be fair. He’s not very familiar with taxes, having had people figure out for him how to get out of them (fraudulently) for so much of his life. I mean he hasn’t even been able to find his tax returns that he promised to release in the last 4 years.
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China, which has made access to Facebook, Google, and Twitter all-but-impossible for the better part of a decade, argues that Washington’s heavy-handedness lays bare “the hypocrisy of the so-called fair competition touted by the United States” and has called for the Trump administration to “refrain from politicizing economic issues”.
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Is this the part where China threatens to take away Ivanka’s trademarks?
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No. Because the real point is to ensure the elite stay that way and the rest of us get fucked.
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We are living in the “Diminishing Upside Era”. 
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