Paris Marx: The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power

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The TikTok ban is all about preserving US power
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All of whom are genocidal zionazis who can never go against the US gov's imperialist interests.

The only US president who tried to do something half-decent, JFK, for wanting to abolish the CIA and giving an anti-imperialist speech titled “Imperialism: the Enemy of Freedom” to seemingly curtail the US’s invasions in foreign countries, made himself an enemy of both the political parties, and was thus assassinated by the CIA.

Political systems in the imperial core, specially in the US, only exist to protect capital and imperialism, while giving a thin veneer of “democracy”.

Btw, Putin has an approval rating of over 75% in Russia. Russia is much more of an actual liberal "democracy" than the US, where Trump won despite getting less votes.

If he has such broad approval why do his political opponents keep dying? Why not have an actual election?

While he does seem to genuinely care about Russia — it was under his presidency that alot of the mass capitalist privatizations after the USSR's overthrow were undone and life in Russia started to catch back up to what it was, though it remained capitalist — he's still a liberal. I imagine that's probably because of a mix of wanting to increase his chances of victory even a bit more, and because there's no genuine leftist opposition in Russia right now that would actually improve it (all his genuine oppositions have been far-right so far).