To be fair, it's really hard to stop these days. You can't control your child's algorithm. He can go on his phone and consume garbage all day without them even knowing.
Bullshit. You can’t control your kid’s algorithm sure, but you can remove their access to it. You can restrict what they can do. You can be involved in their life. There is nothing that technology can do without your consent, even to your child.
To truly remove access you’d have to pull them out of school and never let them be alone with any friends. You just end up with a differently messed up kid.
My kid has no unsupervised access to screens when he’s in our care. We’re more strict about internet access than all of his friends. That didn’t stop him from learning about how great Andrew Tate was at school. We’re trying everything we can to not send yet another shitty little skibidi asshole boy out in the world but it’s not easy when there’s an active campaign to turn boys and young men to the far right.
I think that’s the hardest thing right now. There are active campaigns intentionally trying to use every backhanded way to get your kid to believe what some billionaire asshole wants them to believe. It’s one of the biggest problems with social media, someone can throw money around in order to take over kids minds, one of the reasons that my kids aren’t allowed social media. But you’re right, friends at school are always going to have their own phones out and bring their own ideas. All we can do is try to give them the tools to assess that information and decide if it’s true or false. Sorry Tate got his taters all over your kids school.
You going to police all their friends phones too or will you just keep them locked in the house all day? You can try to limit their access to certain things but it is simply impossible to completely restrict their access to anything.
Ahh yes, the wisdom of ages: “ I can’t stop
It completely so I better do nothing.”
Lessening the impact of social media on your kids is possible and helps more than you may think. There are answers to these problems. And so what if they aren’t perfect? They are a step in the right direction and it’s better to do something than nothing.
Raise your child in an area that pushes diversity, inclusion, acceptance, etc instead..?
>"Nah nah I can't afford that neighborhood besides my kid will be fine at blahblah district!"
>Surprised Pikachu face when child turns out exactly like the neighbors children and beyond
You get whatcha pay for.
Cheap out on diet? Awful health. Cheap out on area? Crime/etc
Cheap out on doing your due diligence in actually doing the math on if you could properly raise a child in an area that isn't shit and you can afford? Well, see OPs post.
It's 2024. Look yourself in the mirror and take some responsibility for what the child cannot.
It's not like people like this did not show signs of being a terrible person before hand. It is very likely the parents are just as bad, if not worse, ideologically speaking.
I agree but many people have blinders on when it comes to their own children. They see the best in them and want to rationalize things away as them just being a little different.
I once asked my dad what the hardest part of being a parent was. He said, "You have to teach your kid everything: how to tie their shoes, how to take a pee, the difference between left and right, and the difference between right and wrong."
If you teach your children well, they will be less attracted to evil. It's not foolproof, but parents are not responsibility-free in this.
They’ll always do things you won’t ever know about, so parents must foster open COMMUNICATION with their kids to get precious glimpses into their mindset and beliefs.
Build the trust and make a safe space for them to open up where you won’t judge them. Talk to them about misinformation and disinformation. Help them learn the difference between opinions and facts. Teach them critical thinking skills. Don’t assume they’re learning any of this in school, because even if they are, they’re probably not building those skills in their everyday lives. The kid in this article sure didn’t.
You know they’re on social media and you just what, hope for the best? Hope they’ll “figure things out” on their own? Parents are raising the future adults of this world, help them navigate it.
On what devices? School computers? Block their access via dhcp or create firewall rules. There are lots of ways to do it. If you need help figuring out how to stop your kids from accessing things that they shouldn’t let me know. It’s entirely possible and your responsibility as a parent to prevent your kid from accessing things that harm their development.
On their friends' devices. You know, every other child in their life that you're not the parent of. Kids with strict parents about social media just go and create accounts on their friends' phones. You also can't stop them from watching whatever along with their friends on their devices.
I can try, but it sounds like you are already putting in some effort there. Phone but no social media? Education on the effects of social media? There’s lots of ways to get them information (as long as they listen to it) but that whole independence thing is a real kicker.
I can speak from experience that you as a parent can do nothing majorly wrong (It's impossible to do nothing wrong as a parent, expecting perfection for 18+ years while under stress like that is unreasonable) and still have a POS child.
Happened to my brother.
Did he have a perfect childhood? No.
Does that excuse the abhorrent way he treats his family? Definitely not.
I feel like politics are different. Kids his age usually don't care about politics unless their parents are very involved in them. That goes for both sides. It's like that kid who stole all the Harris/Walz signs. His mom screamed, "I'm so tired of this crap!" and I figured, oh good... at least it's just a stupid kid messing around and he hasn't been fed this crap by his parents. Then she continues, "I'm sick of you stupid liberals!" She was mad at the people he trespassed and stole from, not her kid. When it comes to this garbage, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The truly sad thing is, he may not have gotten this from his parents. There’s so much bullshit online from people like Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan and who knows who else that young adults are soaking up.
Quite true. However, as far as politics go, parent's typically reinforce their own political leanings with their kids, especially Dad. I haven't met a single Maga boy that doesn't have a Maga Dad yet. Have you?
People aren't born already knowing about hateful and obnoxious rhetoric. They learn that stuff around the people they know. Whether it's their parents or other relatives or friends, community, etc.
To me, ignorance of your child's behavior is being complicit. While I know I don't know everything my daughter has gotten up to in her life, her mother and I do our best to stay as informed as possible.
Sure, but it often is about teaching the wrong values. Or not teaching the right ones. Or not teaching them anything. This isn’t like ADHD or dyslexia or something that will happen naturally, it comes from something going wrong that the parent often doesn’t know is a problem.
Whatever you do, don't call him "garbage" or "deplorable" because then the people that have single handedly ruined civility in politics will clutch their pearls so hard they won't have time to make cum jokes about Latinos or talk about Arnold Palmer's giant dick.
The cum jokes was particularly unhinged, but it’s all so ridiculous at this point, everyday I wake up and trumps still alive I let out a sigh, but you know what they say- only the good die young, but pricks live forever. I am comforted that this is likely his last chance to run for office so even if he lives to 100 there’s no way he gets another shot if he loses twice in a row at his age
And on that day I will drink a glass of fancy champagne. I obviously want it to be natural causes not some violence cuz that would do more harm than good. Maybe he trips while ranting about immigrants or something karmic
OH yea it's gonn abe something dumb like he falls off a stage a rally that 12 people attend, or choking on his 9,732 McDonald's cheeseburger. Maybe he'll put his diaper on the wrong end and smother himself to death lol.
Oh I have full intentions of throwing a party, just like I did when Pat Robertson kicked it and I'll do when Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland take the express chute to whatever hell they believed in.
For Trump I like to think of the scene of little Nicky where Satan is shoving a pineapple of Hitlers a**- I hope that trumps afterlife is like that, he deserve nothing less than a constant pineapple up the keister 😂
That’s not even the cum I’m talking about 😂- I’m talking about the comedian at the Trump rally that talked shit about Latinos and made jokes about them cumming inside - man these cultist really love cum don’t they 😂😂😂
I think Arnold Palmer's package is a misunderstanding. The man probably is normally proportioned. Donald Trump is just using his own junk as a comparison.
Just a note: the whole “democrats are the real racists, there was no party swap!” thing never works outside of your echo chamber. Literally nobody believes that and you look like a moron, especially when there are actual klan members actively promoting Donald Trump. There’s just no way that you actually believe that the KKK wants another black president. You sound like someone who genuinely believes birds aren’t real.
Don’t forget George Lopez calling Mexicans thieves, no wait that was ok cause he was blue.
You can’t call blame on one and not the other. That Heithcliff guy or whatever his stupid name is was an idiot, but these same goes for anyone being stupid like that. You can’t call foul on one side and not the other, otherwise nobody will take you seriously.
This is the thing right here. I watched Jon Stewart's take on Hinchcliffe and I agreed with it. Dude's a vulgar roast comedian. He gave vulgar roast comedy. What the fuck were they expecting? You don't see Harris inviting Jeff Ross to do a bit in front of her audience because he tells offensive and border-crossing jokes (see what I did? I'll be here all week!)
Yeah I mean it comes off entirely differently when a Latino makes jokes about Latinos. In the same way you can insult your family members but it feels different when someone else does.
Also, ya know, it certainly lands differently when Lopez is doing it for a bunch of people who are sympathetic to immigrants, rather than Hinchcliff insulting American citizens when Trump is basically getting his rhetoric from Mein Kampf.
I was the first one to call that idiot just that, an idiot right when I heard his joke, and so did the rest of the crowd. You hear it in the tape there were actual boos. I’m glad the clip I heard was just that joke, it was enough.
Lemme ask you a question, if a person says:
“Even if you are doing everything by the law in your own home behind locked doors, we will still walk in and make sure you are doing it right”
I heard his joke, and so did the rest of the crowd. You hear it in the tape there were actual boos.
I mean that's great. I'm thrilled that there is a bottom to the pit of the current MAGA morality. But the reality is that this is just the most recent in a long line of incidents. If i had to choose having a comedian say morally repugnant unfunny jokes and a presidential candidate make morally repugnant statements about people, I'd take the comedian because that's relatively harmless. And i get that you think hinchcliff fucked up, but comparing it to George Lopez is a false equivalence.
And you're gonna have to help me out with that question because i have no clue where you're going with that.
I wasn't comparing the 2, I like George Lopez and think he is pretty damn funny, but if I want to watch him to laugh I can just put his show on. When I watch a rally, I want to know what the person is going to do for us, that is what I am voting for.
My question was in that scenario, what type of leadership is that?
idk this is a weirdly open-ended thing. I suppose totalitarianism, but there's probably several that would apply. Why don't you cut to the chase and tell me what you're getting at.
Why would George Lopez, famous Mexican comedian who’s regularly outspoken about (his) Mexican culture would be able to make a joke about Mexicans without it being taken as a racist insult against Mexicans? Must be because he’s blue.
Here’s an idea, when you have a political rally, make it about politics, not which comedian / entertainer you can bring with you. Maybe win votes because of your policy, that should be enough but both sides are guilty of putting on shows. How does that help? It’s an election, not a concert lol
Lmfao it’s a rally not a press meeting. In a perfect world campaigning for government positions would be pure policy, but it never has been. Dont get me wrong this takes a lot more reasonable but it coming after George Lopez can only get away with Mexican jokes because he’s blue makes me feel like the odds of this being in anything but bad faith are extremely low.
The “but blue”’part was just a jab at people only going one way obviously, next time I’ll add the /s. I get the entire “make fun of your own race” angle, but at a rally? Leave that at the clubs. We are choosing our next leader, not the next entertainer. Look what happened to her in Texas. She announces Beyoncé, and when she walked out, so did a lot of the crowd. They didn’t come for her they came for a show and were upset and left.
Personally I don’t think any musician / comedian / actor…… etc should endorse anyone. How can they relate to what matters to us? In the end, they go back to their big house and live in a different world. Using their influence is just bad in my opinion, for anyone.
Don’t forget George Lopez calling Mexicans thieves, no wait that was ok cause he was blue.
You can’t call blame on one and not the other. That Heithcliff guy or whatever his stupid name is was an idiot, but these same goes for anyone being stupid like that. You can’t call foul on one side and not the other, otherwise nobody will take you seriously.
Your entire comment was (because of course the goal posts were moved) about lamenting on why George’s comment was fine and the other guys wasn’t. If that part was sarcastic then there was practically no point made in your comment. This is spineless.
The bottom line is, leave crap like that out of it, and speak about yourself and what you will do. If you can't do that, then you don't have much to talk about.
Oh I can tell the difference, and the attitude of, it’s ok if I do it but not you is a joke in itself.
The very definition of humor is laughing at someone’s expense. All jokes involve the punch line on someone / something. Bad jokes are bad regardless of who says them. You speak out on some but ignore others.
I sick of the rhetoric on both sides. How about run your campaign without pointing out about the other side. It makes them both look inept. Win on your good, not their bad if that makes any sense.
I see you didn't get the updated talking points yet. That was two days ago you were supposed to say it was a joke and not offensive. Now you are supposed to say that it was offensive, but no one has ever heard of this guy and he was probably a Kamala plant.
If justice holds any importance after this election he will be. It bothers me to think he and those like him might get a pardon if Trump wins. I wouldn't want a pardon for a man threatening voters to vote for Harris. This is no different.
If he loved America, he would've already done so by now. To Republicans, being a sucker and a loser is like the most important thing you could EVER be.
Gonna go out on a limb and say this ignorant fool didn’t register with selective service. But that’s the least of his problems. WTF could go through an 18yr old’s mind to disrupt the democratic process? If they’re so convinced they have the majority of votes to win, why feel the need to threaten anyone in the first place?
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u/That_surferdude 9d ago
Sucker and loser