Gotta love the “but is China REALLLLLLLY committing a genocide if China denies it” angle

The difference is that TikTok is literally partially controlled by the Chinese communist government. Not just involved in, it’s like partly owned by

Tiktok is considered worse because it’s involvement with a foreign government.

We rape Africa for those metals the in a similar way we’ve been raping the middle east for oil. I guarantee once the US starts mandating EVs and the majority start to transition over there will suddenly be some reason we need to have a vested military presence in Africa, with the possibility of wars centered around countries with these metals that we need.

It’s better for air quality and would do a shitload towards giving us some spare time to process climate change, but they come with their own baggage of bullshit in terms of environmental damage.