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The solution is to give those laws teeth. Harsh regulations on platforms that serve unmoderated content open to everyone. Enforce transparency on content serving algorithms. Massive penalties for security breaches. Ban platforms that don't comply.

If you're worried about state actors having access to your clearnet data, that's pretty much unavoidable in the internet age. You can lessen that by pushing against the digitization of society. You shouldn't need a smart phone or internet service to live daily life.

Support brick-and-mortar stores, your local library, a local hobby group. Campaign against always-online car features, IoT e-waste, traffic surveillance laws, etc... Don't make me choose between subjecting children to a stream of unregulated bullshit and the right to privacy. It's a false dichotomy propped up by our need for digital convenience.

It’s not social medias fault. This is POOR PARENTING. Plain and simple.

Sounds like absolving social media to me.

The complexity of social media engineering and the scope of its impact is unprecedented. It's not at all the same thing as video game or TV panic. When you account for how much real-life peer discussion is driven by these platforms, protecting your child from this toxic rhetoric is nearly impossible.

You used to have to show your ID to rent a movie in person, why is doing it online any different? If you (rightfully) are concerned about data collection and surveillance, push for legeslative protections on that topic. This is a completely separate issue with a very clear root cause.

If you believe there should be no accountability or oversight for the richest companies ever that have deep personal access to billions of people across the globe, you should wake to the realities of the 21st century.

I would argue that those factors aren't a direct cause, but the isolation leaves them vulnerable to things like this. The internet used to be wide open and your semi-random traversal of independent sites would still expose you to a diverse array of people and content.

The pursuit of profit led to massive, accessible, engagement driven social media platforms. Optimization for ad views meant segmenting demographics and serving them distilled content. The hyper specific content led to these demographics living in echo chambers based on their flavor of polarizing content.

The Tate-sphere is built around exploiting that isolation and selling bogus solutions. There's no specific reason the algorithm funnels into it other than it's catches a broad user base on a charged topic => $$$. The algorithm could just as easily push young men into fighting for socially beneficial causes, but anger is a strong emotion that gives the most money.

So over a few years millions of parents decided to collectively take a hard pivot into bad parenting? Couldn't possibly be an unprecedented media environment with algorithmic targeting?

No you didn't. You said arm them and encourage them to shoot any random guy in a bullet proof vest who shows up. Read your own damn comments.

If it's not our choice to make then keep your stupid counter productive fantasies to yourself.

If you insist on pointless suicide-by-cop for these people, why not have them make a real statement. Distribute gas cans and tell them to self immolate in front of the white house.

If you really super-duper want violence, argue for impactful insurrection with organized goals. Reactionary violence against nameless jack boots is the least useful thing imaginable and you look foolish for frothing over it.

Honest question: if the administration's defense is shrugging because he's in another country, doesn't the judge have an easy layup to shut down CECOT deportations?

They can't have it both ways, either follow due process or keep your slave detention camps domestic. It's not interfering in foreign policy to point out they need to choose.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/politics/due-process-supreme-court-alien-enemies-act/index.html

That doesn't sound like like a 9/9 slam dunk shutdown. It's a 5/4 vote to remind the administration they need some fig leaf of due process. The article goes over all the ways that this isn't really a check on the unconstitutional deportations.

Nobody said you have to enjoy them, learning how to formulate and structure your thought process is still important

Side rant: I fucking hate the phrase "unseasonably warm/cold".

It gives the impression of a one off aberration that will go back to normal. We haven't had a normal season in decades, maybe we should just admit we broke the seasons instead of tiptoeing around it.

Destruction of property

Already happening with tesla, already being targeted as terrorists, personal safety at risk and still not good enough for you. Why not just start an insurgency to satisfy you?

Cyber attacks

Not anything that matters as an individual, especially against a state actor. One of the goals of the admin is destroying federal government systems so they don't give a shit anyway

Catfish

Are you fucking kidding me? Every one of them has been exposed as a rapist, racist, pedophile and everything else. Nobody gives a shit and they're not going to jail for it.

Corporate Sabotage

This isn't even directed at the government? What could this possibly accomplish?...

Deny MAGA service, fire them

Unless the customer/employee is in the White House, who fucking cares? And if anything, MAGA is the most protected class in America right now.

It's not that your suggestions are morally reprehensible, they're fucking pointless. Mass protest is massively more impactful if only because it builds solidarity deep down in our primate brains. The 1M people showing up at a protest are much more likely to tell ICE to fuck off in the future.

If you're not giving useful advice, your family and friends aren't at risk, and you're not willing to get on a plane and do something: keep your mouth shut. Nobody wants to listen to your armchair-revolutionary takes.

Hold on everyone, get your pens out. This guy has a carefully detailed plan to solve all our problems

Except what you're suggesting is not a nice controlled egress through the emergency exit or calling the fire department. The only "other thing" that you could possibly want is violence in the streets. Easy to call for when it's not your neighborhood or safety on the line.

You know what follows a large scale protest at critical mass? It's not shrug and go home...

Dumbass commenters in this thread will be finding flaws in a literal insurgency...

There was nothing constructive about it, literally just said "not good enough" lmao

Friendly reminder that reducing/eliminating outdoor lighting is one of the most impactful changes an individual can take to reduce their ecological/climate footprint.

https://darksky.org/

Do they have control over that? I assumed that was handled by feds

An official language is not a lingua franca. A lingua franca is a bridge language. It is –and can only be– the most common shared language between native tounges.

They could add Esperanto as the official language for government beuraceacy, road signs, laws, public schooling and anything else under the purview of the state. That doesn't automatically expand the utility of the language beyond those use cases.

The population of the EU is ~450 million people. Let's look at how that stacks up against language demographics today (combined first+second languages for 2025):

• English 1.5B
• Mandarin 1.2B
• Hindi 609M
• Spanish 558M [the biggest non-english European tounge]

If we take out the EU's 44% English speakers and make everybody speak Spanish (who doesn't already):

• English 1.3B
• Mandarin 1.2B
• Spanish 931M
• Hindi 609M

So putting aside the logistical and diplomatic difficulties, the math just doesn't add up.

You can't just declare a lingua franca 😂