Kids Don’t Think Congress Has Their Best Interests In Mind With Their Grandstanding ‘Protect The Children’ Hearing::We’ve covered a few stories this week related to the Senate hearing on “kids safety” and there’s going to be a lot more in the coming weeks as those same Senators grandstand and yell about “protect the children!” and generally make fools of themselves. I think Casey Newton’s summary of the spectacle is about right:…

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    10 months ago

    Um… as a parent, there’s no way kids know what is good for them.

    Not saying congress is right, but we shouldn’t be asking kids. Sorry to any kids reading this.

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      10 months ago

      All the bad choices and dumb decisions I made as a kid… Everybody downvoting this is either a kid or suffering from amnesia.

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        10 months ago

        All the bad choices and dumb decisions I made as an adult…

        Being older dosent stop ye from making stupid mistakes, heck it’s more likely ye make bigger mistakes that are harder to fix

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        10 months ago

        I mean that’s cool but also not really a rebuttal to the user above. Now the person above is not correct. Kids absolutely know when they’re getting the short end of a deal or at least when it comes to stuff they care about. And Congress didn’t give a flying fuck about the good of the children or we’d have a food guarantee for all children and single prayer health care already.