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Comment by djvdq | Hacker News Reader

What a naive thinking. Of course China has control over you through TikTok. What if they will modify an algorithm to make you vote for right people that they want you to vote? You’d think that they don’t have any control over you when in fact you’ll be used as their useful idiot

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I am not a product of any corporate or government controlled social media. However if I had to be one, being influenced by China rather than US corporations seems better. The two US parties have no substantive difference on economic and foreign policy. So I can't see why the CCP would care which one wins which election.

Spoken like a perfect, useful idiot...

We are all useful idiots to different extent in this system. I have become less useful and less idiotic as I have grown wiser. I am less worried about Chinese propaganda and manipulation than the domestic sort which is much more powerful and impacting to my life.

Why not both?

>The two US parties have no substantive difference on economic and foreign policy

.............. what.

I can't believe how wrong that statement is:

https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/democrats/2016/6...

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/democrats-vs-republicans-whi...

https://thehill.com/policy/international/516856-republicans-...

Yeah, better to be influenced by Chineese, then start to belive what you see, then start to think how they want you to think, and then vote for people they want you to vote. Perfect useful idiot, congratulations.

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