First off, I live in the USA

Could have stopped there instead of just wading on in like you already know everything, but then I guess that wouldn’t have been very American

It’s totally valid that a child dying on-screen is triggering for you. I have PTSD, and that feeling of suspension of disbelief being broken is pretty much exactly what derealization feels like, except I get it about things happening in the real world, as well as in movies and TV shows.

With all of that said, I don’t really think you could say the percentage of parents can be said to be causative for how media depicts child death, it’s really more of a direct result of the Hays code - prior to the Hays code depictions of child death weren’t that rare. Child death was more common in those days too, I suppose. It was after the Hays code fell apart, i.e. the 70s where things started to move towards being more violent, and I think that was more likely caused by mainstream depictions of the Vietnam war on the news - and that was probably the decade with more parents than any other decade prior, given the fertility rate peaked in the 60s.

Kids die in the real world, you know? And not at all infrequently. I think our media should be at least somewhat representative of reality.

Sure, my suggestion would be to join the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) and get involved locally with them or some other direct action group in your area.

Hopefully where you live there is already a group of people doing these things and they can help you get more into it.

Allowing a certificate without proper validation for local only networks is a terrible, terrible idea. I could super easily use this as a loophole to set up a honeypot public free wi-fi, redirect all traffic through a reverse proxy and man-in-the-middle every single HTTPS connection, effectively allowing me to harvest everyone’s passwords in a really quick and easy way.

Just use DNS verification. It’s not that hard.

By building a people powered movement through solidarity, establishing workers co-operatives, industrial unionization, pro-revolutionary social spaces and through direct action. As the working class becomes increasingly organized and class conscious, we can increasingly reject capitalism and the state. If the working class refuses to perform labor for the ruling class, in an ideal world, we can remove them from power without a single loss of life. In reality, they would use violence against us, so we would need to be ready to defend ourselves.

By all means, vote away, under our current system, it can be viewed as harm reduction. But if you have time and energy to spare, that time and energy would be far better spent agitating for real change and engaging in the activities I mentioned above.

Vitally, learn about anarchism, and how it presents a solution to our deeply, fundamentally broken society.

You can’t vote your way out of this shit, even if you elect the greatest people ever to live, the entire system is built up with entrenched elites. The military, the media, the intelligence services, the judiciary, lobbyists, and so on. And people can be corrupt and selfish even if they start with good intentions.

There is only one solution: revolution.

I saw an AI-GENERATED ad for AI-GENERATED MUSIC that claimed it was made by real humans who had their livelihoods ruined by AI.

So are you like, rich or something?

I’m not a fan of the Sex Pistols, I’m way too young really, I assumed you were!

In his book, Anger is an Energy, Johnny Rotten says:

“That line, ‘I wanna destroy the passerby,’ I was talking about all those kinds of people, the complacent ones that don’t contribute, that just sit by and moan and don’t actually do anything to better themselves or the situation for others. The non-participating moral majority. I just thought ‘passerby’ was a better phrase, gets to the point quicker. Rather than use twenty-two words, just one nailed it rather well.”

None of us are free until all of us are. If you’re happy benefiting from slave labor, I don’t have anything more to say to you.

I’m an anarchist. I advocate for anarchism. I’m not a fan of China at all. But Capitalism is way worse than anything China is doing. Capitalism is why we have kids working in sweat shops, conflict minerals being mined in war-torn countries, colonialism, slavery, and fascism. World War 2 was directly caused by capitalism.

https://anarchistfaq.org/afaq/index.html

Thanks for the question, I’d be happy to expand a little bit - the basics of it go something like this: the more money you have, the easier it is to accumulate more money. Money can be used to purchase goods and services, including all sorts of propaganda. Over time, wealth will concentrate in fewer and fewer hands. This leads to progressively worse and worse inequality. This inequality is most harshly felt by the most vulnerable to begin with, but eventually it begins to impact more and more of the working class. As the working class begins to push back against the growing inequality, those in power are incentivized to shift the blame onto others, because they don’t want to give up their wealth and power. The wealthy will use their institutional power, their control over media apparatus, etc. to push a narrative that the problems felt by the working classes are caused by [whoever]. They also push all sorts of propaganda to divide the working class into smaller and smaller sub-groups - if you’ve seen stories in the news about how Millenials/Boomers/GenZ are ruining X/Y/Z, that’s an easy example of the ruling class sowing division among the working class. Eventually, as the inequality grows worse and worse, the poor suckers who bought into the ruling class’s propaganda begin to demand more and more extreme solutions to their problems - which obviously aren’t improving, because [whoever] isn’t actually responsible for their problems, it’s the ruling class.

Laws can’t solve this problem, because lawmakers can be bought. Elections can’t solve this problem either, because the problems are so deeply entrenched that even if we managed to elect leaders that truly do represent us, the ruling class have so much institutional power in other instruments of the state - the military, the police, the judiciary, the media, the education system, the civil service, the intelligence services (CIA, FBI, NSA, et al.) and so on - are controlled, directly or indirectly, by the ruling class. This is why we need a social revolution, we need to throw off the ruling class and never re-establish it. If there are rulers, then there will always be oppression.

I’d recommend taking a look at an anarchist FAQ for more information about the problems in society and how anarchism can solve them.

If we made an anarchist society and we all get wiped out by genocide, at least we would die as free men and women, fighting for our homes and our lives. In the present we die as slaves and give our lives to increase shareholder value.

People are so scared of uncertainty, and all of these “what if” questions are just thinly veiled fear and insecurity. I get it. But if we want to live in a better world, we need to find the courage to act.

The inevitable outcome of classical liberalism is fascism. A free market means the accumulation of wealth into fewer and fewer hands becomes inevitable. Then liberalism dies and is replaced by corporatiam. Classical liberalism is propaganda for capitalism. They made you a slave and called it freedom. And you love it.

There is no productive conversation to be had. I’ve stated my case and I’ve stated yours. I’m convinced I’m right, you’re convinced that you’re right. There’s nothing I can do to change your mind. I’m not insulting you or whatever, it’s just the reality of the situation. Your beliefs are built from your experiences and you believe that humans can’t put aside greed to co-operate. It’s sad that you believe that, but I’m unable to change it. Only you can do that, and I’m not seeing any interest, you just want what you currently believe to be correct, and to not have to change your world view. I understand that because I’ve been in the same place. I can only hope something I’ve said has taken root in your mind and will sprout some time in the future.

Again, humans are incredibly co-operative, but we’ve all been subject to brainwashing from childhood against our better natures. We can act against that brainwashing. It absolutely requires a social revolution - we need to be honest about our society and culture. If you think co-operation is delusional, I’d recommend learning a bit about paleolithic and neolithic human societies.

Anyways, I’m sure you won’t change your mind, the brainwashing is real, I get it, it’s tough. As long as you’re anti-capitalist, that’s fine with me, you’ll get there.

Seems like your mind is made up! I think this is just going to be one of those “agree to disagree” situations. The answers to your objections can be found in the Anarchist FAQ, I’d recommend learning more about it before dismissing it!

You’re missing a few major pieces of the puzzle here - why would you threaten me with a bat in the first place? Most crime is a result of inequal power structures to begin with. If all of our needs are met, why would we choose to be violent? Some crimes of passion may occur, but that’s not likely to create any hierarchies.

If we have an anarchist society, then we have already been successful at dismantling power structures. Any attempts to establish new power structures can be dealt with in the same way - in fact, in a much easier way, since they won’t have anywhere near as much pre-established power.

Revolution is not a single, one-off event. Anarchism requires permenent revolution, a commitment by the society to collectively prevent the formation of new power structures. It requires serious social changes that are likely to take at least a single generation, but probably longer.