I’m trying to maintain optimism that this current extreme escalation is the flailing death throes of a generation raised into bigotry and self-aggrandization, and that we’ll come out the other side of this being a better society (the younger generations today are so much more openly altruistic and progressive on the whole).

Well, I don’t fault you for any of it. This part will require vigorously investigating, rooting out our liberal narrative, and reeducating ourselves.

All I see here is a temper tantrum

So to answer your question: no, it’s not worse. It’s a desperate attempt to make something start tipping the scale back toward liberty and peace.

I doubt that means much to people out of eyesight and earshot to whom we’ve never allowed to have the same liberty and peace.

I engage regularly there in precisely those discussions.

All I see here is hurt feelings for rules enforcement

No worries

Crowd control Decepticon

Huh. Bunch of poor people getting kicked off EBT starting January.

This post is just mean. And funny AF. 🤣

pondered letting “tweens” access a private mode inspired by the popularity of fake Instagram accounts teens know as “finstas.” That document included an “internal discussion on how to counter the narrative that Facebook is bad for youth and admission that internal data shows that Facebook use is correlated with lower well-being (although it says the effect reverses longitudinally).” Other allegedly damning documents showed Meta seemingly bragging that “teens can’t switch off from Instagram even if they want to” and an employee declaring, “oh my gosh yall IG is a drug,” likening all social media platforms to “pushers.” Similarly, a 2020 Google document detailed the company’s plan to keep kids engaged “for life,” despite internal research showing young YouTube users were more likely to “disproportionately” suffer from “habitual heavy use, late night use, and unintentional use” deteriorating their “digital well-being.” Shorts, YouTube’s feature that rivals TikTok, also is a concern for parents suing, and three years later, documents showed Google choosing to target teens with Shorts, despite research flagging that the “two biggest challenges for teen wellbeing on YouTube” were prominently linked to watching shorts. Those challenges included Shorts bombarding teens with “low quality content recommendations that can convey & normalize unhealthy beliefs or behaviors” and teens reporting that “prolonged unintentional use” was “displacing valuable activities like time with friends or sleep.”

https://lemmy.ml/comment/22522523

And Russia

Heavily propagandized people by the governments that brought Operation Paperclip and Victims of Communism memorials that never happened because oops, all Nazis.

Since we’re name-dropping. Phillipthebucket

The creator is a Zionist. Eta: as well as the most prolific contributors.

Ram Dass and Timothy Leary pissing off the US government and academia for reproducing religious experiences with LSD.

That’s a US military intervention.

What racist, afraid of your own shadow scummy behavior you display.

You don’t get banned on hex, grad, or ml for it either, either. People should really check the mod logs a few times daily.

Ah yes, the communities of the zionist genocidal apartheid apologists.