Total Members Voted: 21
Voting closed: November 02, 2020, 06:25:59 pm
I see the analogy and certainly understand the critique. But the severe increase in suicide and attempted suicide amongst teenagers, not to mention increased depression rates, really make social media a different beast. Young kids are in a constant battle to think they need to get likes on everything they do, and when they dont or, worse, when they get twitter mobbed, they lack the maturity to handle it.
The Washington Post has an equal number of conservative op-ed columnists as liberal ones. Unfortunately for the Trumpistas most of them are revolted by Trump (George Will, Michael Gerson, and Jenifer Rubin come immediately to mind and even Libertarian Megan McCardle is disgusted).
Nobody is forced to use social media. Other than LinkedIn (and I have gotten consulting work from contacts there) I don't use any of the others.If a Biden presidency is the same as James Buchanan it will be a couple of orders of magnitude better than Trump.
We had less evidence concerning Russia, and we got a 2 year investigation to find out it was a complete hoax by HRC. So, why not apply that standard here?
Who cares what their opinions are in the Op-Ed section? Their bias is in the news section.
But it has gone way beyond just social media as Gamergate has shown. Maybe the whole Internet needs to be shut down.
I think the bi-partisan Senate Intelligence Committee arrived at a different conclusion than you did.
I see the analogy and certainly understand the critique. But the severe increase in suicide and attempted suicide amongst teenagers, not to mention increased depression rates, really make social media a different beast. Young kids are in a constant battle to think they need to get likes on everything they do, and when they dont or, worse, when they get twitter mobbed, they lack the maturity to handle it. Sadly this does stop with just kids. Just this week a man shot a 6 minute video of him fending off a mountain lion. Sure, it made for a viral video, but at what expense? If he had tripped, because he was distracted from using his phone, that cat could have easily pounced and ripped out his throat, which is how cats kill things. If he bled out and then we saw that 6 minute video, we would have all thought "what a jack ass, he should have put his phone down concentrated on not getting killed." He is no less a jack ass because he survived.
I have documentation from a very highly paid doctor to show that my real name has bone spurs; so it's exempt. However, it does retain the neccessary mobility to wander into the alternate universe to observe and comment.
In the real world it doesn't matter. Use of a pen name doesn't change an author's words.
In the real world it doesn't matter. Use of a pen name doesn't change an author's words.In the alternate universe, it's naturally important because... reasons.
Now I'll speak for us. What we do want is sensible people. People who surround themselves with true experts and listen to them. People who rely on science even when the answers don't suit their agenda. People who are calculated and not impulsive in their words and actions because they realize there are bigger issues at play than their fragile egos. People who don't unnecessarily put themselves or others at risk to simply try to score political points through phony macho bravado. This is what we want. I'm hopefully optimistic the election will prove that this is what we want and the next 4 years will prove that was a good choice.
Forum rules? It does state in the forum rules to use your actual name in your user name.
I was out of pocket most of the day yesterday, so I am trying to catch up. I've been checking my newsfeed and there is nothing about the Hunter Biden story other than the original article in the New York Post and an article saying the CEO of Tweeter apologized for doing whatever he did. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Is the news cycle so short it has already blown over?
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