How exactly is it “plainly untrue”?

Yes, massively.

Your citations did not support your claim at all, you’re just openly lying and hoping nobody bothers to check.

Literally none of those sources support your claim that:

TikTok, regardless of the country of origin, is known to be spyware on a much greater level than everything else on this list.

So at this point you’re just knowingly lying and hoping nobody bothers to check your links.

Yes, we’re all aware that Europeans are racist.

better curb foreign interference

Wtf. We were talking about domestic bad actors, and now you’re going off any foreign influence?

only to a much greater extent.

If this is a “simple fact” I presume should easily be able to prove it, and aren’t just basing it off general xenophobia.

Lol, yeah. The American government definitely always follows the law…

Also lol at the idea that the US government would shut down or nationalise a domestic big tech company for spying on its customers.

But obviously domestic bad actors are better than bad actors controlled by a foreign and hostile government

How the fuck is that “obvious” to anyone who isn’t an ultra nationalist. I’m way more concerned about my domestic hostile government spying on me.

They’re not joking

TikTok, regardless of the country of origin, is known to be spyware on a much greater level than everything else on this list.

How do you support this assertion beyond just saying “it is known”?

Why?

Least historically illiterate anti-Communist.

You could always actually read the essay that you were linked to, rather than continue to just put your fingers in your ears and shout your false assertion over and over.

You could always actually read the essay that you were linked to, rather than continue to just put your fingers in your ears and shout your false assertion over and over.

Holocaust trivialisation isn’t popular in many places

Insisting on being wrong to own the Holocaust scholars.

It’s true

Glad you get i…

but with Russia or China in charge, it would be even worse.

Never mind

is doing something you don’t like.

It’s. A. Fucking. Genocide.

Biden personally grabbed a gun and started murdering Palestinians in the streets

What if he shot someone on Fifth Avenue?

The joke relied on the fact that China isn’t a democracy not because they don’t have primaries but because they have a “president for life”

That was never mentioned in the joke though. The joke was sarcastically asking about primaries and candidates and other trappings specific to US president elections.

It’s also not true: China doesn’t have a “president for life”, so that makes even less sense. More to the point, the leader of China isn’t even determined by the position of President (in fact, “president” is just the English translation, and a bit of a dubious one), it’s mostly a ceremonial position customarily bestowed on, effectively, the Prime Minister.

their elections are largely ornamental and orchestrated by the CCP.

Well now we’ve just gone in a circle; the original joke was implying that China isn’t a democracy because it doesn’t have the electoral apparatus of a democracy, know we’re saying that it does have the apparatus of Democracy, but those don’t count because we don’t consider it a Democracy.