That would still be taking money from kids. One would assume marketing is involved so that’s tricking kids into making a purchase.

My solution is simply stop letting kids have video games. If we want to censor things, let’s censor them.

So all games should be free?

We shouldn’t allow children online or playing video games. If we’re going full jack Thompson, let’s go full jack Thompson. No one under 21 gets Internet or games.

Assuming insurance covers it. And you only have a 60% chance of having it covered.

That’s nice that you enjoy a much less expansive library of entertainment and practically no social interaction. Most people think that’s too large of a tradeoff in a world where corpos have all the information about you from birth.

Hope you trust your VPN provider, that’s the most common single point of failure given your ISP is collecting and selling all of your data.

You sure they’re not wars? The several million dead injured, and enslaved non whites targeted in said wars probably disagree.

Median monthly income in China according to most sources I can find is just 1300-1400 USD. Still, 82 USD for that income is not expensive, and that’s for higher end private medical care outside the main healthcare system.

It’d be like an American paying for medical care with a weeks groceries.

…neither of those things were wars, and both of those campaigns were successful by any possible measure.

Yes, you know the dozen billionaires that will be in the executive branching in 3 days, or the hundred or so billionaires that completely control the US government?

Everyone that moved to rednote absolutely knows their data was scrapped by Tiktok, including contacts and general behavior on their phone.

We’re 30 years past that mattering. Every corporation and thus every government with money knows what you masturbate to and what makes you laugh. They all know where you work and what your net worth is. If they don’t it takes less than a dollar to find out through your advertising id report.

None of the major data brokers refuse to sell to specific governments.

Both parties have attempted in gain a partisan majority in scotus, one succeeded, and now Republicans have succeeded.

Three of the accomplishments in that selection were struck down before going into effect, the antitrust doj actions are nice and all, but don’t actually fix anything or defend the working class – mainly because the effect the admin desired, price reduction and wage increases, didn’t happen. Inflation corrected wages are lower now than in 2020, and food prices never stabilized.

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That’s a hell of a gpt response and all, but no, state capitalism isn’t a thing and left wing thought has evolved in the last nearly 200 years. Except in the US.

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China didn’t have a war on terror or war on crime.

State capitalism isn’t a thing.

I could not care less if China has every single thing I’ve ever typed. They’re literally half a world away, and have never tried to launch a war on vague concepts.

The US government nor any corporate owner of the US government should have a single idea of my existence except for tax purposes.

When was the last time the Dems did?

He’s not wrong. There’s a reason all tech billionaires switched to the Republican party when it became clear their dem donations wouldn’t help them any more.