> You can distrust the US government and also think there's reasonable evidence the Chinese government has access to TikTok for domestic or foreign intelligence.
I wish people would stop giving me permission to believe two things at the same time as a way of pairing
a) the thing with overwhelming evidence that I'm worried about and they're trying to minimize, with
b) the thing that there's little evidence for that they're trying to get me to believe.
It's a marketing tactic. a) suffers by association with the innuendo and rumor of b), and b) is strengthened by being associated with the extensive documentation of a).
They're not giving you permission, they're defending their own beliefs. "You" here could be replaced by "one" or "a person", similar to the French pronoun "on".
I wish people would stop giving me permission to believe two things at the same time as a way of pairing
a) the thing with overwhelming evidence that I'm worried about and they're trying to minimize, with
b) the thing that there's little evidence for that they're trying to get me to believe.
It's a marketing tactic. a) suffers by association with the innuendo and rumor of b), and b) is strengthened by being associated with the extensive documentation of a).