I don’t exist to entertain you, and I don’t find your ideological bent worth more of my time.

Have a pleasant evening. :)

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For starters, requiring ID verification. That is something that is very obviously easy for an adult to provide and for a child not to. At the end of the day, that will be for each individual country to decide.

Though I imagine over the long-term there will be more nuanced solutions.

The problem of people losing their cognitive abilities is far more consequential than a small group of people having a more difficult time because they don’t socialize easily. I’m just looking at the bigger issue here.

Seeing as how the linked article is an editorial, I took a look at the link from the Guardian.

And it’s all people saying how it’s more difficult to talk to their friends now. But how? You still have a phone that dials numbers. Your parents, presumably, have the ability to access social media and obtain any numbers you need if you inadvertently failed to do so. You have email. And it’s free.

The last line reiterates how, while this is ultimately a parental failing, the parental failing has been so astronomical and the harm to kids’ cognitive abilities and mental stability so profound that regulation is essential.

I look forward to the day when social media use is banned globally for all underage people, and if you need more information as to why, go speak to any schoolteacher in America who can’t get their students to pay attention for more than 60 seconds, or who can’t retain information that is literally written on the board in front of them. And it’s getting worse because most parents just park their kid in front of a screen all day.

Like recycling, this is a problem that cannot be solved by expecting individuals to act. Government regulation of social media platforms is necessary.

“Bad baby. NO SQUEEZIE.”

I’m stoked for this.

THAT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.

And… maybe keep this factoid tucked in your mind when JB, another scumbag billionaire, tries to pretend he’s progressive in order to run for president.

There are few stories, apart from the Epstein files, that have spent more than a week or two in the collective consciousness.

I think that’s by design. It’s no secret that the TikTok algorithm (or rather, short-form video in general) and LLM’s have a destructive effect on a person’s cognitive abilities and attention span. Schoolteachers are dealing with the worst of this phenomenon.

That said, it’s a good reminder.

Also a good reminder that your power to create change is local, if you’re courageous enough to get involved, because without Alex Pretti and Renee Good, it’s hard to imagine CBP having to rethink their brutality. It’s not over though. Legal immigrants, children among them, are still being terrorized and chased down city streets, so it’s important to help where one can.

There are few things more American than a family squabble, at a youth hockey game, escalating into a shootout and ending in a mass shooting with multiple people dead.

Awful.

That’s fair. Gen Z and millenials are radicalized by their corporate social media feeds too. I just default to Boomer because, for so long, Boomers were emblematic of this kind of thinking.

Not only wrong, but willfully ignorant. Your point of view is ignoring so many basic facts, two of which are exceedingly important:

1. You have no power whatsoever at the national level absent a billion-dollar fortune or membership in the Epstein Class.
2. Our only power is local, and locally, progressives are winning, and it’s not just Mamdani.

Hell, look at my state: deep red Missouri. You probably haven’t given it a second thought, but in 2024 we approved state amendments to mandate required paid sick leave, a $15 minimum wage, and legalizing abortion. Kansas City has passed two extensions of its streetcar line in recent years, which is amazing because KC is a car-centric town. (And the streetcar is free.) We even imprisoned a killer cop, one of the few places in the entire country to do so.

In deep-red Missouri.

The alternative explanation is that, on top of having to overcome billionaires, we have to deal with brain-dead partisan Democratic voters who think someone is ‘electable’ because they don’t consume any info that isn’t fed to them from their moronic, corporate-owned social media feeds or MSNBC, or they ignore how shitty a candidate is because that politician possesses a vagina.

Sounds like they didn’t rig any votes, just didn’t give them a fair race

That’s some hair-splitting right there. They were quoted as saying it’s their right to hold unfair primaries, in court, which to me is as good as an admission.

But we know they’re rigged. It’s why superdelegates were invented, and why Bernie never had a chance despite being immensely more popular than Hillary.

You’re not getting a progressive because you aren’t trying.

L-O-Fucking L.

Unfortunately the primaries are rigged, and it’s legal. We know this because the DNC was sued after 2016 and admitted it in court.

We’re not getting a progressive anywhere near the presidency.

Eventually, well over 1000 people were tried and sentenced,

But not a damn one with any real power, and that’s the problem.

Which is why I figure the only semblance of justice that will be had here will be social or civil, not criminal. I think we will see victims suing the agents who attacked them, or raped them, or otherwise brutalized them. There will be stories in the media about these monsters that will result in some flavors of social consequences.

But I’d be shocked if any of them spend significant time in prison.

You’re probably right. I hope you’re right.

We have to tell them in every possible way, that we expect JUSTICE.

Dems won’t listen. We told them we wanted justice with 1/6’ers. You saw how that turned out.

I didn’t think anyone would see it as inflammatory only a positive development.

I imagine it’s mostly just us Lemmings who see it as a positive thing overall. :)

The term “civilizational erasure” makes my skin crawl.

I took the ‘no tolls’ driving route south to Texas for a tournament last year, and saw dozens of abandoned small towns. I figure every one of these had a factory or a plant at some point that was moved overseas so one rich asshole could have another yacht or something, and the residents were forced to pull up stakes and move, leaving tons of perfectly good real estate and infrastructure behind.

That’s the civilizational erasure you get when you align with the US.

Reminds me of when Obama supposedly ended the Iraq War but left around 50,000 “military advisers” in Iraq.

These fuckers love a good bait-and-switch.

They’re also the ones who gave us that soulless ghoul Tom Homan.