Equalization often feels like oppression to the dominant group that’s been favored and catered to in society’s history. Like Christians being upset over secular public institutions, or some white Americans thinking they were the victims when Jim Crow laws were overturned.

From a fellow dude…let it go.

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The people you are probably referring to exist on like, two instances. Everybody always ends up on the “.ml” ones for their first experience and is immediately horrified by the hardcore tankie content. That’s because those specific instances are run by actual Marxist-Leninists.

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Sounds like my hometown in Northern Virginia next to DC. There is quite a contrast between where I’m from and the rest of Virginia. I won’t be surprised if NoVa becomes its own mini-state soon once they get tired of red Virginia’s shit.

On the main traffic artery running North to South, interstate 95, there used to be a giant-ass Confederate flag a couple years ago next to the highway being flown by some dude who had property there. Stood for years, sorta marking the point where you were entering no man’s land just south of the town of Stafford.

Broadband had pretty much had taken over most places by the mid-2000s. That was 20 years ago. There are people who can drink now who were born after 9/11.

What I’m trying to say is, yes, we’re old. Dialup to younger folks is like what rotary phones were to us.

almost looks like we could be entering the modern dark ages

It was never guaranteed that society post-industrial revolution will eventually progress into a utopia. The past 150-200 years of relative decency and attempts at a democratic and fair civilization may have been an anomaly in human development. It may have been as short and fleeting as democratic Athens…followed by a couple thousand years of tyranny.

Not every country has such a paranoid view of their government as Americans do. Some systems function a bit better when the people want something done.

Suspending or terminating the Constitution by the federal government is definitely a good reason for secession if I’ve ever seen one. I hope California and other such states are thinking hard about their future here. That would be the last act of the United states.

Software patents are fucked, ain’t they? You can implement a thing using completely different code, algorithms, hell even programming languages/CPU architectures, and you’d still be infringing. There was some stupid fight over a simple slider UI element to unlock a phone a few years back.

His son, Khaled, interrupted him with a smiling comment: “Trump will end the war!”

No. No dude. You all have made a terrible mistake.

Please no, he’s just another limousine liberal, up there with Hillary and the gang. I think people are done with that. Let’s get some real revolutionaries in there.

Snake oil is back on the menu, boys.

That’s great. That’s a personal antecdote though. I was online, unsupervised at 14 years old back in the late 90s, and being into anime and furry shit, I definitely had more than a couple people online trying to roleplay sexual shit with me…a fourteen year old kid. Even though my account profiles stated so. Unfettered, unsupervised access is also not the solution. I’m basing my opinion on this on my own experience as well. There are a shitload of predators out there.

I am not saying a blanket, hamfisted ban is the solution either. This is more complex than being a black and white problem. Where the fuck is everybody’s parents? They should be the ones actively guiding their kid through online spaces, not the government. It was literally a slogan in the 90s to “ask your parents before accessing such and such website” on every ad having to do with the Internet. WTF happened.

Warmest November I ever recall feeling in 35 years. It’s literally in the 70s/80s F on the mid Atlantic US coast.

I don’t care about the laws, I don’t think parents should be allowing access to social media to their five year olds. Preteens maybe, with heavy supervision, yeah that’s reasonable, but not toddlers for fuck’s sake.

The law can go fuck itself, sure, but parents need to step the fuck up in this day and age. There is no reason for a 1st grader to be posting to X/FB/whatever. They should be playing Legos, riding bikes, and digging holes in the playground dirt.

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We’re not doing that.

You wanna get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid? Because that’s how you get a kiddy diddler messing with your kid.

The same parent that handed the kid a device to be on social media can also take the kid out somewhere to socialize with other kids.

Half a century of sabre-rattling and proxy wars with another superpower with an opposing ideology will do that to a country. It’s going to take a long time before “socialism” isn’t a dirty word here, if ever. The Cold War fucked us, ideologically. We still cling to raw capitalism like the Bolsheviks are hiding around every corner. This stuff is still huge in living memory, my own included. As a kid spending my childhood under Ronald Reagan, I’d often hear about the Berlin wall and how it was being used to keep people from escaping to the West. Which is true, yes, but it was definitely also used as a propaganda tool here, a showcase of what “socialist thinking” can bring.