In a Tuesday episode of the This Past Weekend podcast, Von dismissed any national security concerns being floated about the China-owned TikTok platform, arguing the prevalence of content related to Israel’s bombing of Gaza — where thousands of civilians have been killed — is the real reason the government is uncomfortable.

“I believe that they don’t want people sharing the truth about the genocide in Palestine and that’s why they’re doing it. I believe that that’s what it is and TikTok is one of those places where people can still do that. And they want to own it. They want to own it, dude,” the podcaster and comedian said.

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Mitt Romney confirmed this explicitly. Anyone saying the tiktok ban isn’t about covering up Israel’s genocide in Gaza is denying objective fact.

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Give us a source then mr. objective fact man

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Your one google search you can provide vs. everyone who reads your comment having to do the same thing. Thanks for the source but the ease of retrieval it is irrelevant

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They have been trying to ban tiktok for what like 5 years, clearly it’s about Gaza…

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Well, it was actually Trump that tried to ban it and Democrats were against it. I wonder why Democrats took up the mantle in the past year hmmmmm

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Yes, Israel and Gaza, a world event only relevant in the last year or so

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The cover up is real. Look at the fore thought. /s

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It was not a bipartisan topic until Israel entered the picture.

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Who?

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Comedian who runs a podcast. This is an important event imo because he rubs shoulders with right wing dumbasses and has them in his audience as well. The more they hear opposing viewpoints the better.

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Yes. Him having Bernie on was a great moment as well.

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I swear it would be worth the effort to love bomb right wing media types when they do get stuff right, so many seem to be narcissistic

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Joe Rogan

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Podcast Bro, best not to pay attention or attention to anyone who listens to them.

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It’s extremely valuable that a right-adjacent podcast host is directly saying that Israel is committing a genocide. The more normies/politically unengaged are told this, the better

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Especially because the US gov has indirectly admitted to being concerned about pro palestine “propaganda” on tiktok. So its not even a conspiracy theory

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People who hate podcasts are so weird to me. Especially stuff like Theo Von. Dude just makes jokes.

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It’s pretty obvious especially when IG is nonstop zio hasbro.

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I think it’s more than just that, but that’s the leading excuse they are running with. Not being able to tax it to kingdom come and influence algorithms is also reasons.

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