DougHolland

If the candidate is MAGA and 76-million Republicans vote for him, that's 76-million MAGAs.

I'm not disputing that there's good advice in this article, but when my wife had her leg amputated, being American we had to do it the American way. Our insurance told her which prosthetist she'd be working with. There was no choice, unless we wanted to go out-of-network and foot the bill (no pun intended) ourselves.

If you're doing it [anything] for an audience more than you're doing it for yourself, you'll always be disappointed.

Both sides do it, both sides do it...

Fair, and changed, thanks.

I prefer thinking of it as a post title that differs from the headline.

Google Doodles have gone so far from cute into annoying that I have them blocked, but today's sounds like a doozy indeed.

Rounding up endorsements from Dick and Liz Cheney, and Anthony Scaramucci, and Adam Kinzinger, and Alberto fucking Gonzales, while offering platitudes to the left, is not a path to victory for the Democratic Party.

But I don't think the party hierarchy cares about winning elections. They consistently offer only empty feel-good middle-of-the-road stuff which does not resonate with people who are actually suffering in this society and economy.

Absolutely. Anything worth seeing on such platforms will leak out and be found elsewhere. I certainly didn't find this on Twitter or Instagram or Facebook.

Yup, beyond scary, it's terrifying.

Social media presents an array of worrisome problems, with (so far as I can see) only worrisome solutions. Children's access isn't even the #1 issue, for me — it's social media's Musky ability to flood the world with lies and hate at levels never seen in human history.

And there's no solution that's not worrisome, but democracy can't survive with an intentionally misinformed electorate.

Most people don’t give a shit about politics. They hear some rich fuckwad say “Mexicans are stealing your jobs” and “Haitians are eating chihuahuas” and “The schools are changing Timmys into Tinas,” and it’s oh my god they gotta vote for Trump. It’s not intellectual, it’s reptilian.

How do we get through to them, all the victims who know they’re victims, but never figure out who’s victimizing them? That’s the insolvable riddle-me-this-Batman.

I see the problem, but don't see a solution in this Aussie strategy. An age-ban probably makes social media more attractive to a 5- 10- or 15-year-old, and anyway, any bright kid can get around it, and share their get-around with all their friends.