Prehensile_cloaca

Social media is the front of the house.

What destroyed the internet are the cabal of Corporations monetizing every interaction and directing flows from the back of the house.

Unfettered Capitalism killed the internet experience.

That’s a Mentos commercial

Always seem to find the required number of Democrats willing to cross the aisle to enact punitive legislation.

The Controlled Opposition party is remarkably reliable.

Way, way more.

Is that what I said, or are you creating your own scenario by cherry picking my response?

I get the sense you just want to be angry about this post and responses in general.

I’d prefer not to have this type of Reddit back and forth, especially given you’re already adding details and reframing my words to fit your narrative.

Best of luck to you.

Strangely combative and leading way to pose your question.

No, not unworthy at all. But there’s also a wide divide between asking questions and actually seeking to understand. It’s been my experience that many people have developed a questioning mechanism to mask/cover their embarrassment or willful ignorance, and those people don’t care at all to learn the root lesson, they simply want to “win” whatever they perceive as an argument. Winning the conflict is more important than learning the new information. And socially, that process becomes exceedingly tedious.

As the quote goes, “I can explain it to you, but I can’t understand it for you.”

Ban social media and advertising/marketing. Smart phones are just a small computer.

That sounds like criminal charges should be levied more than just letting the owners off with paying a fine.

Metaphors are hardly a new device. Anyone who knows how to read above an elementary school level should readily understand metaphors and similes.

No reasonable, articulable suspicion of crime? No ID.

Just commenting re: the manufactured shortage of labor. I don’t disagree that nearly all agricultural industries will be affected, but this result seems like the outcome of short-sighted voters, more than anything else.

Upstate NY and pretty much everywhere outside of developed metropolitan areas have gone MAGA and have been voting Republican against their own interests for years.

This is what they voted for- to shoot themselves in the foot.

*sow

The majority of white women voted for Trump in 2016, 2020, and 2024.

"White women are still voting for the Republican candidate

Although women as a whole have historically voted for Democrats, white women have not. Instead, over the last 72 years, a plurality of white women have voted for the Democratic candidate only twice, in 1964 and 1996."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/06/election-trump-harris-women-voters

Oh please. Boomers as a cohort have earned the enmity. They stole the economic welfare of their children and children’s children while hoarding resources and lavishing themselves at every turn. Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z have all been sacrificed on the altar of Boomer prosperity. All the while, they made sure that the ladders they used to gain a foothold in upward mobility were immediately pulled up afterwards.

The last 40 years of decline is directly attributable to the choices and votes of Boomers, who, because of their enormous population size, have had an outsized influence on all aspects of American development.

So many Boomers have proven incapable of remote Mgmt. If they don’t have staff in line-of-sight, they always seem to default to “they’re not working hard,” regardless of actual productivity.

Boomers need to retire already and remove themselves from their perches at the top of corporate ladders.

History will remember John Roberts’ SCOTUS as a cornerstone in the USA’s decline.

The lefties yearn for the reel

Kaiju No. 9

Too many people are having kids and should never have become parents. Boomers flooded the world with their negligent parenting.