I’ve never seen such a desperate attempt to twist a really bad take into viability before.

No it is not the same as expensive brand of phone you buy.

And if that what it was supposed to be then it’s even dumber than I thought. Participation in the political brand would be voting. Which young people mostly don’t do. Hence the thread.

In real life young people are not buying the brands of politics they don’t like. They are the exact opposite of the the person complaining about apple from their iPhone while wearing their AirPods.

So it still doesn’t apply.

Also go back, and reread it again. Said it doesn’t require an iPhone. Not that it doesn’t require phones.

Purchasing the iPhone was a choice though. It tools more energy effort and money to do than to not do. So again, not comparable to the country you are born in.

What happened to forced participation you harped on earlier.

Sure you can buy it and complain but a valid question remains “Well why’d you buy it”. And instead of answering this question and trying (and failing) to hide behind the lie that you were Forced to.

A very quick pivot from your previous argument or forced participation.

I hope the young folks do devolope mutual aid networks and arm themselves. Since that’s….you know actually doing something about a scenario they didn’t choose.

Whereas the most effective action about apple policies is buying a different brand.

My god you can’t even understand the point I’m making is the examples where terrible not that the point was wrong.

Yeah but no one’s forced into owning an iPhone, let alone AirPods.

The only one forced is the serf.

Hence the meme fails to say anything. Willful participation(buying apple products) is not the same as forced participation. Nothing is stopping you from buying a third party headphones. Modern life might demand cell phone access, but it doesn’t demand an apple product. Let alone an apple accessory for that apple Product.

The level the meme wants to operate at (deep unavoidable participation in unfair systems) falls apart because it only provided one actual example of that. Hell at least use something like nestle which is so ubiquitous you can actually consume it without being aware. But no one is accidentally buying AirPods. No one is forced to buy AirPods. Apple phones still connect to any Bluetooth headphone.

It’s yet another example of some one mocking faux deep thought while engaging in it.

Worked out so well in getting us a conservative dominated SC and has had consequences that will last a generation but sure, why not do it again

Yes, because the suffering of a serf with literally no option, and the observation of a consumer on a new and unrefined product is the same as someone buying the most trendy brand consumer product with variable alternatives….

I don’t think people without first world problems were buying AirPods and iPhones to begin with.

Ok maybe I’m misunderstanding the ban but the book isn’t transmitting data is it?

I thought the TikTok ban was based on who has access to the data, not that the data exists.

I’m pretty certain transcribing confidential information into a book and calling it free speech wouldn’t circumvent the laws restricting access to that info.

And how nice is it if you are the “wrong” kind of person?

I don’t think such a time ever existed, at least not for the groups currently taking the most heat.

People have been getting publicly harassed for their race, gender, sexuality for as long as this country has existed. They could not “just bowl”. The opportunity never existed for them.

It’s nostalgia for a unity that never existed.