That’s a bummer. A democratic club like that might have an opportunity to show off what a healthy democracy looks like. Most of the organizations that succeed in this simply ignore everything they doesn’t stay exactly on message and refuse to reply to a quickly churning news cycle with inevitably reactionary rhetoric.

What’s Togo?

I never realized it was so democratic. Do y’all have initiatives to encourage democracy elsewhere? Or in general?

I don’t think that social media isn’t problematic. I think it’s been used as a tool to distract people from bigger issues by inflating it’s importance.

I also think social media is used as a coping mechanism when better coping mechanisms haven’t been learned. Social media is a tool and it can be used in a healthy and an unhealthy way. Granted, developers create these platforms to take advantage of our vulnerabilities, we should learn how to responsibly use these tools. And simple education is likely enough to mitigate the vast majority of issues relating to it.

I have a hard time believing you’re gen z but regardless, these things are always being said. Every generation has somebody trying to blame technology for “corrupting the youths.”

Corruption is code for “things I think are bad.” They aren’t bad. It’s always just been a simulacra of whats bad. A thought, a book, a cassette, a game, a “trend.” None of it has ever been real and none of it has ever posed a real threat.

However, there is a real threat. And that’s the media that keeps trying to encourage you to believe there’s always a threat looming over you. Some of it is unintentional like when the news reports a murder and everyone mistakenly thinks crime is rising because the news only reports on high profile events. Other times it’s very intentional and it exists to trick you into being angry and afraid.

And that serves to distract you when they take away your rights and protections. When they fool you into believing that immigrants are taking your jobs, what they’re really doing is galvanizing a group of people to vote a certain way so that their intended winner gets payed, the media outlet gets payed, and all their rich buddies get tax breaks.

And other ways they distract you is NyQuil chicken, twerking corrupting our youths, “nobody wants to work!,” quiet quitting, youth today are soft/weak/lazy.

None of it was ever true and it was all just to distract you. And the vast majority of depression comes from a society that has beaten us into believing that this is they way things are supposed to be. I’m supposed to have a meaningless job so I can barely survive. I’m meant to be alone. The cost of healthcare is just how it is. That’s a regular number of school shootings. Not everyone gets to have a fulfilling career and that’s normal and okay.

It’s all a lie. These are the real problems that some of the media doesn’t want you to think about. Because if you do, you won’t vote for their chosen shill.

https://reddit.com/r/economy/comments/xvg52v/anything_less_is_passing_the_cost_of_doing/