While my own parents weren’t helicopter parents in the traditional sense, I was around adults more than most kids much of my childhood and that was both good and bad. For childhood it was harder because my maturity level relative to my peers was much higher. I expected peers to behave like the adults in my life and with reason and maturity and found neither. On the other hand it was an investment into adulthood and I had dodged A LOT of things other people did not.

Yeah that doesn’t jive anymore in the era of smartphones and social media unfortunately.

Parents are overworked in increasing wealth inequality.

School becomes a necessary daycare. Less time with parents, sadly. More time learning bad habits from peers.

Combine with easily access internet access. And if parents are strict they’re accused also of being helicopter parents bubble-wrapping their kids from reality. Connect the dots. Most saying it’s easy aren’t actually parents themselves.

Google says GenX and Boomers, mostly.

Millennial are raising alpha mostly now.

Disinformation Age.

“The great irony of having the vastness of all human knowledge at your fingertips but being unable to discern truth from fiction, even before AI.”

Deal.

I’ll be honest, I think Trump is enough of a sociopath to not hesitate sending any of his children.

Though that may conflict with his “legacy” and keeping his line alive. Idk.

Presidential war-time bump traditionally called the, “rally round the flag effect.”

When poll numbers are down and you need a distraction, just start a war!

Surely Rittenhouse will say this is hypocritical, right…!?

Babbitt was also repeatedly warned to back down.

Haha!

Okay, tankie. Thanks for the chuckle.

Shame I can’t tag multiple comments.

lol if you think that’s insane then you should see the comment I tagged you with! ;)

Well, they kind of have but that’s also relative. Were it not for AIPAC’s grip in the party, I wonder how much further they would’ve gone.

It’s going to have the opposite effect in time. If center-right moderates are called radical Marxists, then they might as well at least be social democrats or democratic socialists anyway and at least have some sound policies instead of watered-down right-wing garbage.

Students and Junior devs alike also contributing to pad their resume and document experience.

MLK was great but not immune to fuck-up. Granted he knew how to pressure the weak link, but it’s worth noting those liberals became the gateway to legislative action. Certainly wasn’t the southern Confederates.

What they’ll (well, some) never admit is that they’re okay with Taliban law if it conforms to their narrow definition of acceptability. So long as they’re the in-group, then to hell with everyone else.

Wait, what? Definitely not unrelated. In fact, there’s a huge inverse relationship between educated scientists and belief in flat-earth, pseudoscience, anti-vaxx crap. They’re even less likely to be religious.

There’s a reason education attainment predicted better than nearly anything whom someone voted for in 2024, too.

In fact I’d say this extends far beyond mere correlation and the causal relationship is pretty obvious.

Sounds like a weak hit-and-run but I suppose nothing of value was lost. Adios.

I refuse to argue with people this lazy, having critical-thinking deficits, and/or stoned.

Good day.

No, I’m saying that the utilization the slur midget against people who ARE short is still derogatory toward a person’s characteristics that are outside of their control, whether they are subject to dwarfism or simply below-average in height.

But let’s pause here for a moment. I wanna make sure you’re hyper-focusing on what I think you’re hyper-focusing on because I refuse to believe someone can be this ignorant as to ignore what I’m actually saying. Are you actually, truly being transfixed on whether we can insult people based on height versus dwarfism while ignoring the broader argument I am making? In your own words, can you please describe what that broader argument is so that I understand you get it? Consider this a “read-back.”