• Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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    9 hours ago

    And evidence shows that it made mental health worse, because of course it did. But at least they aren’t protesting the Gaza genocide so mission acomplished

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      yup. sometimes under 16s have nowhere else to turn, so they turn to social media. if they don’t have that, what are they supposed to do?

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        Okay but designer drug algorithms are not an option.

        I imagine they will go to the same places you, or I, or the billions that came before did when we were raised prior to social media.

        If my brother’s only friend left is heroin. I am still not going to give him heroin.

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        Kill themselves. It’s what I would have dome, and what may have already happened. It’s a cruel assault on young people, which is why the only moral stance is open defiance

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          I mean that’s what happens when we group children with teenagers. They are treated the same despite being vastly different. In essence, majority of people where in support of striping of rights of their people. And people say we aren’t falling into fascism.

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      Cutting addicts off from their drug of choice has short term affects of immediately deteriorating mental health. More at 11.

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        I’m deeply skeptical of anyone slinging around drug metaphors l. Can you considered that isolating marginalized people is bad for them? Or do you not care? Or do you like it better that way?

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          You can be skeptical of the drug metaphors all day but we know it is extremely addictive and harmful. They know it is too. Right here in this article is proof of that.

          No I think that social media as a whole is a blight on society, and you can whataboutism all day to make anything seem like a positive so it’s worth keeping.