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I see Trump as a composite of various figures from the Late Roman Republic. He exemplifies the vindictiveness and dementia of the returned Marius, the 'promise them anything' populism of a Clodius, and the consuming greed and frustrated desire for approbation of a Crassus.

But what if we just blame the internet for all of our problems? I have been lead to believe that then the problem will go away if we just completely abandon any form of privacy whatsoever.

The idea that social media is bad for teens is a textbook manufactured moral panic that is not based in reality in the slightest, and it's been pushed entirely by people who have a strong reason to want to end anonymity online and exert much stronger control over the speech of marginalized people.

--consistently coming up between 5% and 10% depending on the study (and it's only very weakly correlated to amount of use), neutral for half the rest, and beneficial for the other half. The number of teens whose lives are better because of social media is *at least* 4x the number harmed by it!

A lot of people have been taken in by the idea that social media is bad for teenagers, but the only way you can come to that conclusion across the board is by badly misrepresenting the science. The actual, scientifically-backed answer is that it's bad for a small percentage of them --

It found that higher and faster rates of Facebook adoption in a country was correlated with higher rates of well-being, although the effect is small and the researchers concluded it was *probably* an invisible confounding variable.

The largest and best-quality dataset we have on the effects of social media (an analysis before and after Facebook introduction in 72 countries) had around 750k data points and studied a 12-year period of time.

So, so, SO MANY people have studied this, and the only people finding negative effects have a very strong personal and career bias pushing them towards findings that aren't grounded in good science. Here's some methodology critique and more links: kidsplaytech.com/wp-content/u...

This is absolutely a myth! Here's a collection of papers showing the reality, which is that any negative effect from social media use is tiny (for both teenagers and adults) and a small number of overall users, and far more people get a positive effect: bsky.app/profile/raha...

This is just???? Who the fuck are you to say how children should be raised, Kathy?

This is so fucking invasive and creepy and police statey jesus fucking christ This doesn’t just police children, this tracks and polices everyone and hands ALL of our information over to mysterious “third parties”.

This is the best tip sheet on the satanic panic type scare around kids and tech I’ve ever seen.

GRAPHE: Global Project Against Hate and Extremism Great in-depth exposé w links of which states are being infiltrated by which Active Club White Supremacist Neo-Nazi branches globalextremism.org/post/america...

The Active Club founder has described such organized fights a “tip-off point for a fascist cultural revolution.” He added, “Every victorious nationalist movement was forged by hardened men who already tasted real danger.” www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/inside-the...

ICYMI

An anti-trans activist lied about a trans athlete injuring cis women. Now she has to pay the price. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/an-a...

Same-sex couple sues anti-LGBTQ+ clerk Kim Davis for allegedly hiding big money she owes them www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/same...

Trans woman sues NBC after alleging she was punished for reporting sexual harrassment by her boss www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/tran...

They all think that, they say all the time "there was no evidence."