Tim Barrus, New York Times
Trump Hates Tik Tok
As someone who works with kids, I see them vigorously laughing.
The ones I work with go the beating heart of the matter.
They shut down Trump’s rally in Oklahoma. This is what is called collective power. This is why the government is going after Tik Tok.
All the other formal declarations about security are smoke screens.
The kids voted. They shut Trump down, and made him appear to be fat and ridulous.
If only their parents could do the same. And that is what the Republicans are afraid of. In their playbook, this cannot be allowed to stand.
They will do whatever they have to do to in order to render Tik Tok ephemeral.
But that is the strength of Tik Tok. Adults don’t get it. It is fundamentally ephemeral. One analogy would be a judge telling a jury to ignore a defence attorney’s remarks that the attorney wanted out there. Authority or no authority.
Tik Tok is an act of hope. Most of it is mating behavior. Adults are threatened by that, too. Social media as a tool that can be employed to subversively shut the parental rhetoric down.
They have pushed the adults out of the way. And they are dancing everywhere you care to look.