Their only interest is profit, it was only a matter of time for that interest to consolidate into corruption and greed. In a world where making choices that benefit all do not generate as much short term gains as making choices that benefit a select few, it is easy to see exactly why these companies operate the way they do. Their interests are not ours.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We should have regulated tech (and hard) decades ago. Were Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg not example enough for tech enthusiasts, or now that it’s too late is it the right time to shed our naive fairy tales about the Billionaire Supermen who want nothing more than to save us all?

Leave him now.

The more time goes on, the more I feel this.

The patriarchy harms us all, indeed.

We have a particular segment of the population, many of them Boomers, that overdosed on the internet and refuse to accept that the internet lies to them, manipulates them, and acts as a conduit for propaganda tailor made for their lack of critical thinking and short sighted ideals. Cable TV (esp news outlets) was the primer for this and continues to act in tandem.

These are largely the same people who told us ‘video games make the kids violent!’ along with many other tropes that have been fed to them so they have zero incentive to see themselves as part and parcel to the problems we face today.

Now, we have an entire generation of new voters that have spent half their lives steeped in this Trumpian bullshit. They too are so lost in the version of reality that is being sold to them online that they don’t even see actual day to day reality for what it is.

Idk how we fix this, aside from something really major happening that unites us against our oppressors, or a multigenerational project akin to educational rehab.

Fucking ewwwww spot on

That’s an interesting perspective to me, esp when I invert it for myself.

I love ‘girl’s girls’, and wish there were more of us.

Naw man, the torn up bottom hem is a vibe.