The first book I read about this was Killing the Black Body, which detailed how slave bodies were handled (physically and by society) and then how that progressed into the eugenics movement that is still alive and well today.
From there it was just noticing it in the news whenever it comes up. Which is why I was hinging my statements on the frequency. I haven't done any analysis, it just hits the news often enough that I'm disgusted.
Thanks to Thallamanond and Nathaniel for providing specific sources.
It's social media in the technical definition - it's a place to view media, both entertainment and news, with commentary, groups, the ability to follow someone, etc. Which makes it social.
But yeah, it's not quite like Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn. A little bit like Twitter though.
Pretty regularly, they catch fertility doctors performing eugenics based procedures without patient consent. Like with shocking regularity.
Also, it isn't super uncommon for male fertility doctors to substitute their own semen instead of the correct material that the patient(s) provided.
Evil people go into these jobs because it gives them the power to push their own agenda without much oversight, and by the time someone can make a claim against them, and is believed by anyone else, they can move on.
They can sue a company doing the corporate media thing very successfully, because it doesn't directly fund them....but they can't hold gun manufacturers, oil and gas companies, etc. accountable for actual harmful effects.
Is social media good? Hell no. But it isn't illegal. These kids can literally work in factories again, be married off to pedos, and these people are faking outrage to distract from all of that.
The problem, from the perspective of the rest of the caucus, is that if any of them are held accountable for anything, then they're all on the chopping block once a more extreme person wants to make headlines.
If there were a conviction, that might move some of them onto the roster of those willing to vote to censure or remove. But for un-adjudicated wrongdoing? They'd just be opening the doors for it to be used against them as well.
Most of it. If you lived past puberty you'd live to be a normal age, 50+. Kids tended to die of disease, but once you're basically an adult, you're a lot harder to kill.
The board of Twitter is who sued to force the sale, since musk had kicked himself in.
That doesn't mean his offer and subsequent behavior with the company isn't market manipulation to be investigated, which is being done by the government.
Both things can be true. He stupidly kicked himself into a deal he was forced to complete, and his behavior since has indicated that he's just gaming the market since he had to complete the deal.
He did this to 1) score ideology points, 2) send Congress into a tailspin so they can't pass a budget in time, so that 3) he can campaign and fundraise off of that for his run for governor of Florida.
So yeah, seems to be working out well for him. That's the main problem with republican ideology - their voters are all about selfishness, so the fact that this benefits him and negatively impacts the entire remainder of the country is a good thing in their minds.
Paid off for Madison cawthorn until he blabbed about the republican cocaine orgies and they released that weird video where he was humping his male cousin.
I wonder what the monkey's paw will do to him if he does manage to pull this out.