delirium trigger
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That's crazy. He talks about resistance but from "the big bad corporations" as if there isn't any resistance from normal citizens.
All these fucking communists can ever do is point the finger at businesses.
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[UK] Bans social media access for under 16's
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That's crazy. He talks about resistance but from "the big bad corporations" as if there isn't any resistance from normal citizens.
All these fucking communists can ever do is point the finger at businesses.
RafterXL
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Well, that's exactly the plan. This isn't about children, it's about controlling literally everything you see and everything you say. They are already the worst country in the world of this stuff, and it's going to get much, much worse.
German Shocks
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I apologize for getting political, but man, it's time for you Brits to retake the country.
It's sad enough you guys already lost 95% of your empire and military strength.
It's sad enough you guys already lost 95% of your empire and military strength.
Zacfoldor
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I'm gonna AI harder.
I read it all.Fuckin' tuck in, fam.
This is framed as funny, but it's actually pretty scary.
This kid is basically saying they have NOTHING else to do other than consume algorithmic content on various social media.
Not go outside. Not play with friends. Not hang out with family. Not engage in hobbies or meaningful pursuits. Not read.
I understand this child was being hyperbolic, but I do think there's a kernel of truth here, that they have no other meaningful plans, and I think that's really a showcase of today's society.
There are a tremendous amount of problems with society at large today.
Kids can't read.
Massive over consumption.
People being retarded/assholes for internet points.
Attention spans across the board are fucking shot.
Video games have to be dumbed down to the lowest common denominator.
Studio executives have mandated that movies get dumbed down and over explain everything so the film can be "watched" as a second-screen experience.
Dating in 2026 is a fucking nightmare. If you don't instantly meet a laundry list of requirements set by someone, they swipe left and you're completely forgotten.
People are butchering their bodies to pursue whatever idealized beauty trend is currently happening right now.
Fast fashion aesthetics both in clothing and home decor are incentivizing the rapid production of cheap goods to meet a breakneck, ever changing demand.
A lot of this... Can be distilled down to a common problem. Social media.
Social media really first "started" with "MySpace." Sure, there were other websites prior, but it didn't really EXPLODE until MySpace. Everyone had a MySpace page. And in your social circle, you fucking knew where you stood when it came to someone's Top 8. This created an environment where people started putting a lot of focus into their online presence. We posted everything, constantly. Work. Kids. Events. Parties. All of it. Because everyone you knew was also on MySpace, it meant that everyone you knew also knew everything you were doing, thinking about, etc. And you for them. You became hyper connected.
Suddenly, you didn't really need to hang out as much anymore. Getting together for a movie night with your friends or just walking around the mall and catching up was suddenly less important, because you already knew everything they were doing. You liked their posts all week.
This grew even more with Facebook. Introducing games like Farmville increased our screen time dramatically. Not only were we posting every random thought we had, when we weren't doing that or liking posts from friends and family, we were spending more time online playing stupid games and being shown advertisements. That idea caught on.
With the advent of the "modern" smartphone around 2007, there was now a whole new way to capitalize on this behavior. It became easier than ever to take pictures right from your phone, post, and share everything you were doing.
Fast forward nearly 20 years and people are more addicted to their phones than ever. We post everything we are doing, but instead of a picture and some text, it might be an entire video, a live stream, whatever. People are constantly voicing their opinions online. And "The Algorithm" is constantly feeding you more content based on stuff you have previously engaged with. To make matters worse, various platforms like tiktok, etc, will actually PAY YOU based on how many views your videos are getting. So now, people are financially incentivized to be radical online, whether that's through ragebait, or extreme behaviors, or whatever.
So now this has created a society that today has very little patience for anything. The next thing they might like is only a swipe away. They can't figure anything out on their own, because they are so accustomed to being told exactly what to do and how to do it. This creates an environment where no one needs to sit down and problem solve. To "figure it out."
Now, if Atreus doesn't tell Dad how to solve the puzzle after about 45 seconds, the player is just going to get bored and quit playing, and do something else. That disengagement is the worst possible thing for a game developer. So they design around it. They know that modern players don't have the patience or attention span for it, so they design around it. If there's any friction at all, the player will just give up. Then it's back to scrolling for more dopamine.
You can be retarded and or an asshole to others because if you record yourself doing it, you might make money, or it might make you popular. Remember when people were just straight up stealing anything not nailed down? Potted plants? Car doors? Remember when all those stupid internet challenges got people hurt, and people have died?
Remember when the internet told us labubus were the most important thing in the world? And people would GET INTO FIGHTS over stanley cups and a fucking tote bag? And people would spend hundreds of dollars on fucking squishy dumplings? Then all of your home decor HAD to be beige. Then gold and silver. Then christmas colors. Your house is beige still? Gross. Kill yourself.
You don't have square shoulders? You should get plastic surgery. Your forehead is HOW MANY fingers wide? You're already 19 and you don't have a BBL or any botox? What do you mean "I've never had any lip surgery before?" Are you even trying to be pretty at all or.. is ugly just.. fine? Maybe you should try hitting yourself in the face with a hammer because everyone knows broken bones grow back stronger and thicker so you can break your jaw over and over again to become a gigachad.
Of course then to meet the overwhelming demand that social media has put on plastic surgery, new clinics pop up all over the place with questionably qualified "doctors." Before your procedure has even fully healed, square shoulders are out. Now you just look like an ugly linebacker. Ew. Gross. Cringe.
Fashion has gone from "what's in this season" to "what's in this week." Everything is made cheap and fast these days, and nothing is made to last anymore. It doesn't need to. You're going to wear that dress or pants for a few days, maybe for a video or two, and then it's off to the landfill.
Social media is a plague that has ruined society in so many ways, or at the very least, heavily contributed to its downfall. Too many voices, often from bad actors looking to make a buck, had too much power, and way too much influence over the masses.
Ban all of it. As much as I would like that, as long has the almighty dollar makes the world go 'round, that ain't happening. Not when that industry generates around 250 billion per year in revenue from ads alone.
It's like watching a train crash in slow motion. I don't see a fix for this. Not until people decide enough is enough and just quit using the platforms.
I do not agree but I respect your opinion.
For me it's the opposite. This is the best time to be alive ever.
You see, society doesn't really have much use for me but I'm very clever. I'm smart as can be and I'm very anti-social(not in a hostile or disruptive way, but rather I'm just an introvert, I don't like going out or the company of other humans much). I don't like being around people at all. I can't imagine having to share my living quarters with women and children(aka have a family). It's just not gonna happen to me.
I see the world not as us making progress moving towards some distant goal I won't be here to see. Rather trying to have the best lives we can while we live is what I think I would prefer to strive for.
So imho let social media be. Freedom is scary yo. We push existential human fears onto others but we should let them enjoy the fruits of our societal labor.
AI is the next step beyond social media. It will engage with us at a level not yet imagined.
It just doesn't seem right to me to take away the ability of anyone to use the Internet, especially for "protect the children" politics.
If parents think social media is the devil they can disallow their child from using it. No government involvement necessary. The government realizes nobody cares enough to do anything so they are going to force it. Are they not?
Just seems a little overboard and bigtime first world problems. Also there may be an element of exaggerated fear(depending on who you ask). I don't think social media is as bad as you say but that is just imho. Truth is though, even if it was, I would still be for it. I'm 100% biased and don't have kids.
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Article: Two of the main statistics:
At least 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, drugging, torture, filming for blackmail/distribution, forced Islamic conversion, coerced abortions, and lifelong trauma.
Estimates put the proportion of Muslim gang members at ~95%.
The rape of Britain.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
If there was ever such a thing worthy of a revolution.
We did it over far less.
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
Ding ding ding
UnrealEck
Member
It's just social engineering. They're laying the groundwork for an authoritarian communist style government where people are completely propagandised daily.
This was also revealed to be true btw.
It's all about control and keeping power. People actually thought Starmer would resign for past failings. They were so naive.
This was also revealed to be true btw.
It's all about control and keeping power. People actually thought Starmer would resign for past failings. They were so naive.
Toots
Gold Member
I thought kids were ban on all social media apps. If not then it is a shit measure. The problem is social media in itself not what type of social media you consume, just like hatred is the problem in the leftist vs right wing battle not who is supposedly more deserving of hatred than the other.
Parental control only work when the parents are "parenting". One of the biggest problem of society is that entitled parents who are also braindead morons fuck the future of their kids by raising them wrong. If you know a better solution to that than State interventionism tell me because i don't.
Bojji
Member
Something done almost 100% by Pakistani Muslims - "don't mention the race"
Holy Shit...
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
People don't hate the UK government enough.
250k girls raped by these people.
Whole report
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Toots
Gold Member
Dude im with you on this one, i admit i was misinformed.They're not banned from BlueSky or Discord.
I wonder why that is,
I should have been smarter than to think starmer would do something sensible for once.
nightfly
Member
But... But... THE CHILDREN!!!!!!!
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Bojji
Member
Vlad was right all along.
He (probably) was a sex slave to Ottomans when he was a child.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Historical records did account for it.Vlad was right all along.
He (probably) was a sex slave to Ottomans when he was a child.
Let's ask the clanker,
Historical accounts and psychological analyses suggest that Vlad the Impaler was likely subjected to sexual abuse during his captivity in the Ottoman Empire.
- Hostage Status: Vlad and his younger brother Radu were sent to the Ottoman court as political hostages in the 1440s to ensure their father's loyalty.
- Allegations of Abuse: Several sources indicate that Vlad was exploited as a child sex slave and subjected to buggery, which some psychologists believe contributed to his later psychological trauma and violent behavior.
- Brother's Fate: His brother Radu was explicitly noted to have become the personal sex slave of Sultan Mehmed II, a dynamic that intensified Vlad's resentment and hatred toward the Ottomans.
- Historical Context: While some historians argue Vlad was treated reasonably and educated, others point to widespread Ottoman practices of using young foreign boys as sexual slaves as evidence that Vlad's suffering was part of a systemic pattern of abuse.
German Shocks
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
Yeah, this should not be tolerated at all.
Bring out the guillotines for these officials, I say.
P:axMagellanic
Member
The harder they squeeze the more they lose control. Every institution in this country is loathed and has lost any semblance of trust. They're zombified and running on momentum.
100 percent I think there's going to be a slaughter in this country within 10 years. I'm comfortable enough saying 5.
We'll need our Anglo brothers to smuggle rifles and resources in, because the state will side with the invaders if it means protecting itself.
100 percent I think there's going to be a slaughter in this country within 10 years. I'm comfortable enough saying 5.
We'll need our Anglo brothers to smuggle rifles and resources in, because the state will side with the invaders if it means protecting itself.
P:axMagellanic
Member
Be interesting to watch all the cunts in labour, lib Dems, and Tories shout him down in parliament over this.
Bojji
Member
I think I read somewhere that 1/7 Pakistani Muslim men were doing the rapes, and of course almost all of their relatives knew about this (and helped with it). How can "moderate Muslims" tolerate this?
"Evil" doesn't even describe it, deport or kill them all.
Draugoth
Gold Member
Like privacy entusiasts warned: The UK Gov want an easier time arresting people for online posts, and a easier time tracking them down.
The fact that this ban is coming up a week following two brutal attacks is telling. They are afraid of social media and children seeing what their governement is doing.
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German Shocks
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You see this go all the way to feminists, who will blame it on "men" and will say no more.
Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
It is. If you're an Islamic rape gang
German Shocks
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
I feel like this will radicalize a new generationIt is. If you're an Islamic rape gang
Bojji
Member
Classic:
The crime the Netherlands would rather forget
In the early hours of 20 August, a 17-year-old girl set off on her bicycle, making the journey from central Amsterdam to the nearby village of Abcoude after a carefree evening out. What followed was any parent’s worst nightmare. In distress, the girl dialled emergency services, reporting that...
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Dr.Morris79
Gold Member
I'm hoping
I loaded up an everyday carry recommendation video by a guy in the UK and he showed his Leatherman Arc but said it's illegal for him to carry in the UK outside of his home because it has a locking blade.
I looked it up and confirmed.
A Leatherman multitool is illegal to carry. Would be hilarious if not for what is being done to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable girls who have no means of self defense or recourse with the corrupt police.
The population has been thoroughly disarmed and pacified, jailed for online posts. Next is complete information control and the death of anonymity.
I looked it up and confirmed.
A Leatherman multitool is illegal to carry. Would be hilarious if not for what is being done to hundreds of thousands of vulnerable girls who have no means of self defense or recourse with the corrupt police.
The population has been thoroughly disarmed and pacified, jailed for online posts. Next is complete information control and the death of anonymity.
German Shocks
GAF's Nicest Lunch Thief and Nosiest Dildo Archeologist
At this point, who in the UK really cares about what's illegal to carry?
Brits must do whatever they can to defend themselves against this crazy incursion.
It's only sad that they're also fighting the people meant to protect them.
Bojji
Member
I think what is happening in UK is even worse than China, at least in China they are not bringing in foreign rapists into the country - you are only controlled by the state.
And feminists will say it's ok when brown people are doing it.
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DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Sounds to me like the Brits need their own form of IRA.
WW1&2 did a number on the genetic populations that impacted well into the future, almost by design for the west.
nush
Gold Member
I can go to the Go Outdoors retailer here in the UK and NOT buy a full tang Buck brand Knife and a leatherman with no questions or ID or age check at the checkout. They are right there in a locked clear plastic case in the camping section. Good job I didn't buy those.
P:axMagellanic
Member
We're dealing with tone-deaf Robespierre style retards here. Zealots to their very core.
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