It is extremely important that your "Vote Blue No Matter Who" way of thinking dies out, because it is what leads to Democrats feeling no pressure from the left, choosing awful right-wing candidates, and then subsequently losing to Trump.

And do you understand how it is the corporate Democrats who have now lost to Trump two times out of the last three elections? And thus how essential it is that Democrats do not go down the same road again if they want to stop losing? And how pressure from the left is essential to this end?

I live in Massachusetts. Do you understand how the electoral college works?

But thanks for wishing cancer on me. Even though I think your way of thinking is what has lead to Trump in multiple elections now, I do not wish cancer on you.

Boy do I still stand by voting Green. It's because of people like you not demanding Dems do better that Dems end up losing so often. And if you don't understand how the electoral college works and factor it into your assessment of the situation anywhere, you're not some brilliant strategical genius.

I agree that the thirteenth amendment has an exception for "punishment for crime", but clearly the point is that slavery is much, much less legal than it used to be and that we can and should try to make things much, much better for children as well rather than adopting a defeatist attitude.

The CRC is really the bare minimum, and I wouldn't characterize it as calling into question children's property status. It's more like a set of guidelines for more ethical treatment of property.

Pour les francophones, il y a Lyes Louffok aussi.

But TLDR, in my opinion the most important takeaway should be to fiercely support voting rights for everybody under 18. All other problems affecting young people will continue struggling to get attention until people under 18 have voting rights and thus more sway in the conversation.

If people are interested in this topic, I highly recommend logging off for a bit and exchanging the social media feed for some good reading: John Wall, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Samantha Godwin, John Holt, Richard Farson, Shulamith Firestone.

We've been through it with light bulbs and seat belts and car seats and fossil fuel, et cetera and so forth. It's just exhausting dragging people kicking and screaming into any sort of progress.

I'm somewhat hopeful about Comingle, which would be like UBI without government. Even though it can't force rich people to participate, like UBI through government could.

www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/...

In my opinion, the first step is voting rights for everyone under 18 so that they can have a say in the conversation about whatever else you think should happen.

Source? Or is it just that for every opinion piece you've read saying social media helps, you've read 10 opinion pieces saying it hurts?

Yes they are. They are banning YouTube in Australia, one of the best places for educational content. And there are plenty of news stories lately of Zionists specifically saying their goal is to keep kids from hearing pro-Palestine "propaganda".

Cool to see a name for this. You can see it with Zionists saying that calling Israel genocidal is disrespectful to Holocaust victims, or ageists saying that comparing discrimination against people under 18 to historical racism and sexism is racist or sexist.