isles

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[–] isles 3 points 2 months ago

All roads lead to China Main St.

[–] isles 2 points 3 months ago

Be the change you wish you see in the world. :)

[–] isles 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What you say is true, but also ignores the alt-right pipelining that YouTube and others are seemingly complicit in, or at the very least is the result of perverse incentives.

And I'll say the exact same thing about TikTok. It's serving as primary sources for many problems around the world, it's giving more broad and informed, collegiate level discussions of the world, and it's full of brainrotting limbic hijacking. All true and I don't think any generation is fully equipped to deal it.

We can also see historically that banning a "vice" has never effectively removed the vice from society.

[–] isles 2 points 3 months ago

What checks and balances might be eroded today compared to 2017?

[–] isles 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You have to admit, he really destroyed that strawman version of you though.

[–] isles 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, and if you don't like that, there's a lot of work to be done. Grab a shovel

[–] isles 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She wasn't perfect so she is literal garbage, agreed.

[–] isles 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Like the crime of not being paid enough to afford housing?

[–] isles 1 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the tip, I'm trying to be google-free, so I'm testing it out. A little too late for election season, oh well

[–] isles 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sometimes, the point of research is to experimentally prove things we suspect are true.

[–] isles 2 points 3 months ago

Big Wood And Metal Utensil Lobby is going hard, for sure

[–] isles 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it was really great that the US destroyed the Kingdom of Hawai'i. Nice.

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