Don't pretend you're someone else because I embarassed you, it's beneath us both. Well, at least me, nothing is beneath you.

For sure the public sentiment on Flock is exactly the same in 2024 as it is today and sure, if we want to get really semantic about what a ban is, if only the town pasing a specific ordinance with the word ban, than sure.

But you did and I think while the sample size is small but it leans towards my assertion. I mean, Republicans have made crime and immigration their #1 issue even supporting the man who promised to eschew rights and break laws to deport immigrants, why wouldn't they support such things? It's an ugly world.

If we have to go back to WWII I think that makes my point.

Is that a rubber duck and a doughnut?

Exhibit A

About 7 million Americans tried to vote in 2024 and couldn't because of common county level voters suppression tactics. Combine that with the flood of Russian propaganda and we were pretty well fucked.

When your crackhead neighbor who owns a fuck ton of guns is going through a thing letting your other crackhead neighbor fuck with him because you're hoping the two of them are going to off each other is not actually a sound policy. Because instead of getting two dead crackheads you usually get one of them killing the other one and then you've got a crazy crackhead running around without anything to keep it in check.

A better solution would be a intervention. Maybe help your neighbor get off the crack. But on the other hand you'll probably hoping that your neighbors going to kick the bucket and that you can take advantage of that for a quick buck.

They don't really give a shit about privacy and they're just going to have their own homegrown companies rape your privacy and push billionaire propaganda it'll just be more local billionaire propaganda as opposed to international billionaire propaganda.

The point I'm trying to make is this isn't your upstanding up for privacy or the rights of children or any of that this is just standard run of the mill international politics enacted by the same ruling class we should be getting pissed off at but we never actually do.

Just a quick Google search and it looks like a bunch of cities in California have dropped Flock and and it looks like the state is looking at restricting some of their methods, I dunno if a full statewide ban has happened anywhere yet.

Now a real interesting thing would be to cross reference which cities banned it along with voter data because a lot of California is quite red just not red enough to overcome the coastal cities. Santa Cruz, El Cerrito, Mountain View etc, probably a trend.

Also the real blackpill is get on your local Nextdoor group and read when arguments about Flock are happening. A lot more than you'd want to are onboard with the idea. California isn't immune to bloated and influencial sherrifs and police and folks who only say "pwease pwotect my pwoperty at all costs"

Too bad about the music because I went through one of my playlists and there's so many good Canadian artists, even just in my playlist theres like a dozen: Death from Above 1979, Peaches, Metric, Broken Social Scene, Destroyer, Wolf Parade, Leonard Cohen, Angine De Poitrine, Neil Young plus all the other famous ones like Alanis and Celine and who could forget "Now, now, the Canadian government has apologized for Bryan Adams on several occasions."

OK, show me your best example compared to the 2024 Trump admin, don't forget the rounding up part, that's kinda key here.

The LP is dead as a doornail and 80% of libertarians became MAGA as soon as they felt like that they could be the boot and just let the Tea Party movement wash over them like ocean waves. It was mostly Republicans who didn't want to be associated with the Iraq War when Bush was wildly unpopular anyway so MAGA fits most of them like a glove.

The issue of free speech has been ceded to the Democrats in the national divorce, along with free trade, American football and the Constitution in general.

Maybe as Americans we should stop voting for the "track people and round them up" party who are currently in power.

Sorry but the idea such a thing would happen under a Harris or a Hillary or any Democrat administration is just conservative propaganda at this point.

It's called "I get all my information from X: the everything app" where this type of outrage porn is injected into people's veins nonstop.

I'm going to ignore "majority" because that's immeasurable and dumb but Hollywood has long played nice with the US military, famously even. I mean what else is Top Gun: Maverick than pro American?

No what you are demanding is Hollywood say nice things *about your politics*. That's what you really want so go watch some more Daily Wire or Uwe Boll action movie slop and buy some Black Rifle coffee, there's plenty of conservative grifters out there ready to swallow up your dirty dollars.

Of American social media companies that have become propaganda arms for billionaires.

Not that the ruling class of Europe really particularly cares about billionaire propaganda but they aren't going to let foreign countries billionaires spread propaganda inside their borders because what kind of fucking stupid person would allow that?

I mean besides America.

This is always been how Facebook survives. Young people inevitably bail on Facebook because they don't want to be on the same social media Network as their parents and Facebook just buys up any competitor they move to.

But if you ban social media for people under 16 you can't do that and they won't get into the habit of using it so when they turn 17 they won't bother. Already we see social media use dropping because of all the bots and Nazis but if you haven't gotten used to using it and made it part of your daily routine you're going to log on and be slapped in the face with that nonsense right out the gate and without all the kiddy filters that were at least hiding the Nazis, mostly.