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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 111 points 6 months ago

Trump: "I am once again asking the United States to operate like a holding company."

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 87 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe even gazillions. Who knows. People are saying TikTok could be worth forty, maybe even fifty gazillion dollars.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Certainly worth brazillions, which is more than twitter

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Leave us Brazilians out of this!

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

1.5 trump coins

[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 60 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So... he wants to nationalize TikTok? I thought communism was bad?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not nationalisation if it’s owned by a private citizen who also happens to be part of the cabinet.

[–] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Oh, I thought he was suggesting the US government buy 50% of it. I suppose with Trump in charge private corporations are the United States now.

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

The other 50% are going to Trump and his cronies. The US isn't going to see a dime.

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 42 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

wait, so now both CCP and NSA get to mine TT?

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how they'll align on which propaganda they are going to push. Areas of influences?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The owners and controllers of these companies don't care about countries, nations, ideologies or even beliefs ..... all they care about is money and it doesn't matter if you're Chinese, American, or identify as communist or capitalist.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

It's not about ideology, it's about control and corruption. In Europe, both Trump and Xi agree to support fascist movements to weaken the EU. In Asia their interests are not as compatible.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What is BOTH an acronym for? /s

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

sorry, used caps as emphasis... I have no idea if it is an acronym...

I know, I was just being silly.

[–] TeamBrett@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is he saying owned by the US government or by a US oligarch? The former sounds like the opposite of small government. If they're so angry about the postal office being owned by the federal government, why would they be okay with TikTok

[–] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

Is he saying owned by the US government or by a US oligarch?

I don't think he sees an appreciable difference

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's like when theres a spinny wheel at the playground and someone uses their motorcycle to spin and one person gets ejected our of their skin basically but it's gonna be millions of people.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I went to fact check his tweet. Found this instead. Who cares South Park was delayed, we can still have fun with these

[–] WeUnite@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

There's a typo in his post. He said "say up" instead of "stay up".