Academician

I mean, it didn’t succeed, but they tried: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch_Supreme_Court_nomination#Filibuster

I’ll admit I loved those books as a kid. I was obsessed for a while with getting a pith helmet so I could go on adventures like Babar.

As an adult…well, the colonialist and racist overtones are no longer lost on me, and my son doesn’t own any of the books. But part of me misses my innocent wonder reading them.

I don’t love Facebook, but I’m not sure I understand the comparison. The objection here is that TikTok is operated by a Chinese company. Meta is a domestic company.