There are studies done that social media before 14 greatly increases depression in new ways.
And short form content physically shrinks the brain. Studies easily accessible.
Just because boomers are out of touch doesn't mean you or I default are in touch.
Boomer probably had the same deluded feeling of being better than the generations before them but likely lost something.
Since we're wanting to point fingers, why not point some fingers at the millenials who built the digital slot machines that the users today don't know they were curated to use.
Because everything my government does is good and everything the other governments do is bad, as that's what the state-sponsored media I consume told me!
The school system is a sewer of bias with 90%+ of teachers leaning left. Decentralised media is the only chance many kids have of hearing both sides of the story.
Is this a US thing? Maybe it's because your Overton window is flying miles beyond the right-end of the spectrum and you lost touch to what "left" even means?
> The school system is a sewer of bias with 90%+ of teachers leaning left.
Good thing people give a shit about teachers and pay them properly so everyone is eager to become a teacher in order to address that bias. Instead of idk, leaving it entirely as it is and just whining in a partisan fashion about how education has some sort of bias. I mean education has a lot of women who are teachers and the GOP don't appeal to a lot of women because they want to ban abortion and shit like that. So that'd probably explain it simply enough. In terms of priorities what if the massive funding went into teaching instead of recruiting for ICE? Shows to me what's important to people.
Tbh, I don't think minors need to be angry about misinformation about migrants (which is what I got in like 5m last time I created a fresh twitter account), they can wait until they're old enough to vote. They'll still fall for that shit all the same, so there's no need to be upset about it. Might as well ground our kids for their first 16/18 years before unleashing the Nick Fuentes community on them.
That is funny, because the vast majority of leftists, whether it is progressives, social democrats, socialists, or Marxists or what have you would complain that schools mostly ignore leftist ideals in favor of free market capitalism, conservative/traditional US political theory and civics, and propagandized history that always assumes the US was a good guy acting in good faith.
>anybody that doesn't want their kid to be bullied on Snapchat is actually just a puppet of fascist regimes trying to stifle political speech.
They are fascists if they want to prevent everybody else's kids using social media just because they're too shitty parents to teach their own kids that sticks and stones may break my bones but names can never hurt me.
Giving the state the power to regulate social media will just allow the the state to censor and control information again like it does with traditional media.
From the link - This is possibly due to better reporting practices by the police as well as an increasing willingness of victims to come forward, including historic victims of sexual violence.
Not definitive, but certainly a possible explanation.
As Mao said, political power grows from the barrel of the gun. In the past decade freedom of speech and internet freedom has being dramatically curtailed in pretty much every western country where the citizen are unarmed.
> maybe if she'd had a gun she wouldn't have been shot
And how do you imagine that, exactly? You think that cop was fine shooting her for driving away in panic, but would patiently wait for her to grab a gun? And what would you like a person in her situation to do with the gun? Shoot him? The fact is, pulling a weapon in front of a US cop is begging to be killed on the spot. A common point of advice is that if you're stopped in the US by police, you should never look like you're reaching for anything, because the worst-case penalty for that is death. It instantly escalates the situation to life-or-death for a group of people that is largely already itching to pull the trigger.
If he didn't have a gun, maybe he would be driven over by the car. Possibly a few more people too. In Europe, where guns are less prevalent, cars are the favorite weapon used by terrorists.
Luckily, he had a gun, so he was able to save himself and who knows how many more people by shooting an attacker.
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