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A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.

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[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 59 points 7 months ago (21 children)

Package a TikTok bill along with aid for Ukraine, Israel AND Taiwan? Even lumping the aid bills together for 3 different countries is odd but the hell does TikTok now have to do with any of it? This is a weird system you guys got there.

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bernie Sanders has been saying for 30 years that the bill is too damn long! Representatives get very limited time to read bills so they usually don't and just vote along party lines. This is a form of deception and it's intentional.

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