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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps we should shift our focus onto Tyler’s parents who thought is was perfectly acceptable to probide their young child with machine guns rather than blaming a possibly trans roomate?

It's safe to say that his militia upbringing had a role but so did the roommate/boy-girlfriend. It's all connected and they are all internet nut jobs.

But if you prioritize the issues here, the trans roommate is the least important unless he is an accomplice. It all began with Tyler’s parents giving him machine guns obviously.

They can't be separated like that. They fed into each other. The main common denominator is the radicalization and violent rhetoric that came at this guy from two different angles.

Nope the #1 common denominator is that a radicalized person was given guns.

It's not because if it wasn't a gun then it would have been a bomb.

Sure, let’s get rid of guns first.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps we should shift our focus onto Tyler’s parents who thought is was perfectly acceptable to probide their young child with machine guns rather than blaming a possibly trans roomate?

It's safe to say that his militia upbringing had a role but so did the roommate/boy-girlfriend. It's all connected and they are all internet nut jobs.

But if you prioritize the issues here, the trans roommate is the least important unless he is an accomplice. It all began with Tyler’s parents giving him machine guns obviously.

They can't be separated like that. They fed into each other. The main common denominator is the radicalization and violent rhetoric that came at this guy from two different angles.

Nope the #1 common denominator is that a radicalized person was given guns.

It's not because if it wasn't a gun then it would have been a bomb.

Sure, let’s get rid of guns first.

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps we should shift our focus onto Tyler’s parents who thought is was perfectly acceptable to probide their young child with machine guns rather than blaming a possibly trans roomate?

It's safe to say that his militia upbringing had a role but so did the roommate/boy-girlfriend. It's all connected and they are all internet nut jobs.

But if you prioritize the issues here, the trans roommate is the least important unless he is an accomplice. It all began with Tyler’s parents giving him machine guns obviously.

They can't be separated like that. They fed into each other. The main common denominator is the radicalization and violent rhetoric that came at this guy from two different angles.

Nope the #1 common denominator is that a radicalized person was given guns.

It's not because if it wasn't a gun then it would have been a bomb.

Anonymous wrote:🚨 BREAKING: The FBI and state agencies have launched investigations into multiple LEFTIST groups in Utah for possible advanced knowledge of the Charlie Kirk assassination, per Axios

They’re also probing whether or not these groups provided material support after the kiIIing

At least one group deactivated their social media pages soon after the shot was taken.

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA is killing the country. No hope. It’s just so sad. We are ceding our leadership in the world, in economics and freedom. Totally depressed

Yes, they've turned on their own. The shooting is an example, but minor compared to what they've been willing to do to their country.

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Who TF cares what some rando on X is saying about some rando on TikTok?

Meh. He was so unappealing lthat I think the publicity is likely to just give more energy to the left to produce better and more genial influencers. I had never seen his face before this or listened to him talk. Not impressed at all.

Democrats/liberals/progressives etc. do need to produce better influencers and have more grassroots support … or even astroturfed support lol … but when we do, we get attacked by useful idiots like Taylor Lorenz. Can’t win.

Meanwhile the far right gets kids from a very young age when they aren’t even old enough to discern propaganda and biased reporting. My 10 year old loves watching people’s gaming videos on YouTube. He especially loves strategy and war type games, mixed in with clips of older shows and movies like The Simpsons. Guess what else his algorithm was showing him? PragerU. Their videos were just coming up for him mixed with everything else. I blocked their channel and a few others. Now imagine how many parents have no idea what PragerU even is or that their kids are being served RW biased videos all the time, wrapped up in nice production value and disguised as educational children’s content.

Yeah maybe don't let him watch YT

That’s not the point. The point is this stuff is out there and for every person like me who’s aware of it, there are 10 who aren’t, or who are just happy their kids are watching something educational/newsy and aren’t actually listening to what the videos are saying.

My child was getting PragerU vids as well. And he complained about it.

Thank you, just blocked PragerU and Tuttle Twins. Any others I need to block for my kids?

This is not going to work. Once they’re on social media you have no idea/control over what they’re seeing. Get them off social media and, yes, You Tube is social media and just as bad as the rest.

It depends on the age. They are eventually going to be on social media. You have to talk to them about it, just like you talk about everything. I’ve raised skeptics, for better or for worse, but I’ve tried my best to instill in them that they should always question people that seem to have all of the answers without any qualifications. I’ve made a lot of parenting mistakes, but that’s one thing I’m proud of.

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Anonymous wrote:MAGA is killing the country. No hope. It’s just so sad. We are ceding our leadership in the world, in economics and freedom. Totally depressed

So a guy in a romantic relationship with a trans person shot and killed a conservative pundit, and your argument is MAGA is killing the country!

Anonymous wrote:MAGA is killing the country. No hope. It’s just so sad. We are ceding our leadership in the world, in economics and freedom. Totally depressed

Anonymous wrote:MAGA is killing the country. No hope. It’s just so sad. We are ceding our leadership in the world, in economics and freedom. Totally depressed

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps we should shift our focus onto Tyler’s parents who thought is was perfectly acceptable to probide their young child with machine guns rather than blaming a possibly trans roomate?

It's safe to say that his militia upbringing had a role but so did the roommate/boy-girlfriend. It's all connected and they are all internet nut jobs.

But if you prioritize the issues here, the trans roommate is the least important unless he is an accomplice. It all began with Tyler’s parents giving him machine guns obviously.

They can't be separated like that. They fed into each other. The main common denominator is the radicalization and violent rhetoric that came at this guy from two different angles.

Nope the #1 common denominator is that a radicalized person was given guns.

It's not because if it wasn't a gun then it would have been a bomb.

Anonymous wrote:I think a purge night for political nut jobs on both sides would be perfect to weed out some of the extremism out there

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Anonymous wrote:Perhaps we should shift our focus onto Tyler’s parents who thought is was perfectly acceptable to probide their young child with machine guns rather than blaming a possibly trans roomate?

It's safe to say that his militia upbringing had a role but so did the roommate/boy-girlfriend. It's all connected and they are all internet nut jobs.

But if you prioritize the issues here, the trans roommate is the least important unless he is an accomplice. It all began with Tyler’s parents giving him machine guns obviously.

They can't be separated like that. They fed into each other. The main common denominator is the radicalization and violent rhetoric that came at this guy from two different angles.

Nope the #1 common denominator is that a radicalized person was given guns.

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Who TF cares what some rando on X is saying about some rando on TikTok?

Meh. He was so unappealing lthat I think the publicity is likely to just give more energy to the left to produce better and more genial influencers. I had never seen his face before this or listened to him talk. Not impressed at all.

Democrats/liberals/progressives etc. do need to produce better influencers and have more grassroots support … or even astroturfed support lol … but when we do, we get attacked by useful idiots like Taylor Lorenz. Can’t win.

Meanwhile the far right gets kids from a very young age when they aren’t even old enough to discern propaganda and biased reporting. My 10 year old loves watching people’s gaming videos on YouTube. He especially loves strategy and war type games, mixed in with clips of older shows and movies like The Simpsons. Guess what else his algorithm was showing him? PragerU. Their videos were just coming up for him mixed with everything else. I blocked their channel and a few others. Now imagine how many parents have no idea what PragerU even is or that their kids are being served RW biased videos all the time, wrapped up in nice production value and disguised as educational children’s content.

Yeah maybe don't let him watch YT

That’s not the point. The point is this stuff is out there and for every person like me who’s aware of it, there are 10 who aren’t, or who are just happy their kids are watching something educational/newsy and aren’t actually listening to what the videos are saying.

My child was getting PragerU vids as well. And he complained about it.

Thank you, just blocked PragerU and Tuttle Twins. Any others I need to block for my kids?

This is not going to work. Once they’re on social media you have no idea/control over what they’re seeing. Get them off social media and, yes, You Tube is social media and just as bad as the rest.

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Who TF cares what some rando on X is saying about some rando on TikTok?

Meh. He was so unappealing lthat I think the publicity is likely to just give more energy to the left to produce better and more genial influencers. I had never seen his face before this or listened to him talk. Not impressed at all.

Democrats/liberals/progressives etc. do need to produce better influencers and have more grassroots support … or even astroturfed support lol … but when we do, we get attacked by useful idiots like Taylor Lorenz. Can’t win.

Meanwhile the far right gets kids from a very young age when they aren’t even old enough to discern propaganda and biased reporting. My 10 year old loves watching people’s gaming videos on YouTube. He especially loves strategy and war type games, mixed in with clips of older shows and movies like The Simpsons. Guess what else his algorithm was showing him? PragerU. Their videos were just coming up for him mixed with everything else. I blocked their channel and a few others. Now imagine how many parents have no idea what PragerU even is or that their kids are being served RW biased videos all the time, wrapped up in nice production value and disguised as educational children’s content.

Yeah maybe don't let him watch YT

That’s not the point. The point is this stuff is out there and for every person like me who’s aware of it, there are 10 who aren’t, or who are just happy their kids are watching something educational/newsy and aren’t actually listening to what the videos are saying.

My child was getting PragerU vids as well. And he complained about it.

Thank you, just blocked PragerU and Tuttle Twins. Any others I need to block for my kids?

This is not going to work. Once they’re on social media you have no idea/control over what they’re seeing. Get them off social media and, yes, You Tube is social media and just as bad as the rest.

DP. Definitely keeps your kids off social
media, including YouTube, for as long as possible. Once they’re in middle and high school, though, they’re going to be exposed to all kinds of stuff despite your best efforts. You have to keep talking to them about this until you’re blue the face.

Make sure they understand why you kept them off social media. Make sure they understand the mechanism by which content creators have to keep upping the ante in order to increase engagement, in order to make more money. Make sure that if they feel they are being led, however subtly, down any sort of ideological path, that they stop and question who might profit off of that.

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Who TF cares what some rando on X is saying about some rando on TikTok?

Meh. He was so unappealing lthat I think the publicity is likely to just give more energy to the left to produce better and more genial influencers. I had never seen his face before this or listened to him talk. Not impressed at all.

Democrats/liberals/progressives etc. do need to produce better influencers and have more grassroots support … or even astroturfed support lol … but when we do, we get attacked by useful idiots like Taylor Lorenz. Can’t win.

Meanwhile the far right gets kids from a very young age when they aren’t even old enough to discern propaganda and biased reporting. My 10 year old loves watching people’s gaming videos on YouTube. He especially loves strategy and war type games, mixed in with clips of older shows and movies like The Simpsons. Guess what else his algorithm was showing him? PragerU. Their videos were just coming up for him mixed with everything else. I blocked their channel and a few others. Now imagine how many parents have no idea what PragerU even is or that their kids are being served RW biased videos all the time, wrapped up in nice production value and disguised as educational children’s content.

Yeah maybe don't let him watch YT

That’s not the point. The point is this stuff is out there and for every person like me who’s aware of it, there are 10 who aren’t, or who are just happy their kids are watching something educational/newsy and aren’t actually listening to what the videos are saying.

My child was getting PragerU vids as well. And he complained about it.

Thank you, just blocked PragerU and Tuttle Twins. Any others I need to block for my kids?

This is not going to work. Once they’re on social media you have no idea/control over what they’re seeing. Get them off social media and, yes, You Tube is social media and just as bad as the rest.