Or the Diary of Ann Frank. Easier to control the narrative around children than to discuss the politics of grown adults.

Attacking our batons with your shoulder blades and our pepper spray with your faces.

Advertisers don’t need end users. They just need happy bosses willing to cover their salaries.

In that sense, the business marketing team and the Reddit “look at our bullshit numbers” team are on the same side of the field.

A big part of the “Cheney family endorses Harris” push has been corporate flacks racking up favors with the Dem side of the aisle so Harris can replace her cabinet with people who are more business-friendly in the next term.

They’re playing both sides. This isn’t just “Trump Wins: Things Get Worse” / “Harris Wins: Things Stay The Same Amount of Bad”.

Considering

Investigating

Discussing

Will put forward a possibility of

Listen, its this government or we go with the GOP version where its just the MOVE bombing every couple of weeks, while the DOJ issues briefs about busting open a child’s testicles to get information out of his father.

Do Nothing or Do Something Awful. Those are your choices.

when anyone suggests curtailing their political speech

“We should have a day where nobody talks about politics” is less a comment on censorship and more a comment on the speaker likely feeling enervated by the Say Everything Do Nothing cycles of political discourse.

It’s naive, self-serving, and myopic, to be sure. But it does illustrate an overall problem of these social forums. People rehashing the same arguments over and over again. People screaming at one another blindly, making all sorts of trollish comments and paranoid accusations, and generally harshing the vibe of the overall community, pleading and begging for annoymous randos to support this or that political candidate or policy… its not fun.

A day without political speech might be healthier for everyone’s mental state, broadly speaking. But only for the moment, in the same way a man yanking himself up to the surface of a pool and gasping for air feels relief, before sinking below the surface again.

it’s to create a little feel-good bubble for yourself, which is hardly a worthy justification

When you feel helpless and impotent, its all you know how to ask for. A very sad state of affairs overall. Every day going online, expressing anger, doing nothing about it, logging off, encountering horrors in real world, feeling anxiety, and going back online to vent again.

Reflection on held opinions is… political.

AI comments under an AI generated article being inflated by AI account activity. Who even needs end users anymore? Its a perfectly autonomous system.