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Mitt Romney Says Congress Supports Banning TikTok for Israel
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NefeshBarYochai
2024-05-14 00:43:04 UTC
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In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.

“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”

The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.

Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.

“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”

A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.

https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Sharx335
2024-05-14 03:39:19 UTC
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Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
%
2024-05-14 04:54:50 UTC
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Post by Sharx335
Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
party lines are
John Larkin
2024-05-14 05:05:48 UTC
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Post by Sharx335
Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
Sharx335
2024-05-14 05:24:19 UTC
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Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
The Doctor
2024-05-14 05:45:37 UTC
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Post by NefeshBarYochai
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
Antifa backed of course!
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trotsky
2024-05-14 08:09:56 UTC
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Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
Antifa backed of course!
Cite?
Idlehands
2024-05-14 12:45:52 UTC
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Post by The Doctor
Antifa backed of course!
Cite?
Don't waste your time, binky aka The Doctor never proves any of his wild
ass claims.

I suspect someone told him this so not it's a "fact" in his little "mind".
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Sharx335
2024-05-14 15:43:29 UTC
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Post by NefeshBarYochai
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-
supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
Antifa backed of course!
Cite?
Anyone using "trotsky" as an ID deserves NO cites but a straight trip to
Hell where the other trotsky residesl
trotsky
2024-05-14 20:38:07 UTC
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Post by Sharx335
Post by The Doctor
Post by NefeshBarYochai
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-
supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
Antifa backed of course!
Cite?
Anyone using "trotsky" as an ID deserves NO cites but a straight trip to
Hell where the other trotsky residesl
So you have just a pile of horseshit too. Good to know.
The Doctor
2024-05-14 22:06:24 UTC
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Post by John Larkin
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Post by NefeshBarYochai
In a conversation with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Sen. Mitt
Romney (R-UT) acknowledged that banning TikTok has such strong support
in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public
relations battle.
“Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut
down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney
said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the
postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative
to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok
broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the unfounded
allegation that it’s a Chinese spy tool because its parent company,
ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real
purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort
failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and
pro-Palestinian content.
Blinken blamed social media in general when asked by Romney why Israel
was losing the global PR war. Palestinian journalists have been able
to broadcast to the whole world the atrocities committed by Israel in
Gaza using social media, including graphic videos of dead or wounded
children being dug out of rubble following an Israeli airstrike.
“Now, of course, we’re on an intravenous feed of information with new
impulses, inputs every millisecond,” Blinken said. “And, of course,
the way this has played out on social media has dominated the
narrative. You have a social media ecosystem, environment in which
context, history, facts get lost and the emotion, the impact of images
dominate. We can’t discount that, but I think it also has a very very
challenging effect on the narrative.”
A bill to ban TikTok was included in the $95 billion foreign military
spending package President Biden signed into law last month. The
legislation gives ByteDance nine months to sell TikTok, or else it
will get banned. But ByteDance has vowed to fight the ban in court and
said it would rather shutdown TikTok than sell.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/05/06/mitt-romney-says-congress-
supports-banning-tiktok-for-israel/
Post by John Larkin
Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
It's a Chinese plot to undermine America by rotting the brains of our
youth. It's working.
As demonstrated by all those pro-terrorist illegal campus occupations.
Antifa backed of course!
Cite?
Anyone using "trotsky" as an ID deserves NO cites but a straight trip to
Hell where the other trotsky residesl
Hear! Hear!!
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The Doctor
2024-05-14 05:45:02 UTC
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Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
Tiktok is Communist China spyware.
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John Larkin
2024-05-14 15:04:45 UTC
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Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
Tiktok is Communist China spyware.
What do they have to learn from spying on their audience? TT selects
for morons.
Sharx335
2024-05-14 15:44:28 UTC
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Post by John Larkin
Post by The Doctor
Post by Sharx335
Tiktok is a colossal waste of time...showing imbeciles prancing
about,for example. Waste of energy and bandwidth.
Tiktok is Communist China spyware.
What do they have to learn from spying on their audience? TT selects
for morons.
As do many other aspects of pop culture. Always has, always will.
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