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100%. I really wish TikTok, X, Instagram, Facebook and Reddit got banned. But you can imagine the revolt and anger that'd cause. They'd call us fascists and authoritarians.
We are incredibly cornered, I really don't know what I can do. It's easier when it's a foreigner, but when it's someone from your country, it hurts differently, I feel a lot less compelled to even try, because well, you saw what happened, and there's also the risk of actually interacting with a narco who can use Pegasus to locate my phone's coordinates.
Every year is a new generation of thousands of brand new children receiving access to the Internet and being exposed to these things. With parents who are increasingly more economically depressed and neglectful; just give them an iPad and move on type of parenting.
It's really scary. I am so angry at the top 1%, you have no idea. It's crazy how people get censored the most when they express violence toward the top 1%, like the whole Luigi Mangione and Elon Musk censorship in Reddit and Insta. Also the word "Jeffrey Epstein" getting banned in X I think, for a while, to stop people from talking about it.
But people saying heinous shit get a pass, like say, Asmongold, who thankfully got banned today, but still, it took so long, and it should've been a permanent ban, because he literally said, out loud to his audience of millions of people in Twitch and YouTube, that he would "shoot and kill Mexican women, men and their children for crossing the border." He does dog whistles like that everyday, but just because he did it so blatantly this time, he got the ban. Shit like that is what I mean. It's so transparently clear.
Sometimes I wonder if they are trying to boil the pot until it explodes, which makes no sense, because I am very sure they would likely be the ones getting burnt the most. I don't think they are that smart, even if they hire dozens of psychologists and economists to tell them their best plan to keep squeezing people for profit. They are just killers to me, not different from the narco at all. They behave exactly like a Mafia. Just imagine being Trump, going to sleep knowing you gave an order that killed a bunch of little girls in the Middle East just to distract people from some files that prove you're a pedophile who raped children and even killed them ala House of Cards to silence them? Like what the fuck? Why is this reality? What kind of job is that? What kind of world is this? How are we still supposed to praise and love God if this is their world? If God exists and cares, why are they not doing jackshit about all this pain their children are going through? Everything is incredibly cynical. It seems like only the most sick, blind and delusional people can thrive. Those are the most loyal, therefor the most rewarded by these monsters. I hope Historians manage to record all of this in a way it can never be forgotten or ignored by future generations. As a warning we should never forget.
Oh I know, people would revolt if we took their precious dopamine fix away. Some regulation might help but it's a very difficult problem to solve.
At this point I feel like only some kind of cosmic event can save us from social media, but that wouldn't be so great either.
The rampant cynicism is everywhere and it's making even small societal problems difficult to solve.
Remember: Elon and his stupid fanboiz are "free speech absolutists", though. I mean, he had to buy Xitter, because, otherwise, conservatives had zero free speech, LOL. Because something something shadowbanned, etc.