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:…
If they cared about kids they’d do something about school shootings, stop blocking food stamps, go after religious figures that sexually abuse children, pass universal healthcare, and a myriad of other things. Congress, and particularly Republicans, don’t care about children AT ALL. Children are a political talking point, a useful point of leverage, for them, but that’s it.
Going after tech companies is useful in two ways:
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It distracts from going after the actually things that harm children (gun manufacturers, poverty, child molester priests) and lets politicians look tough.
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They can beat up tech companies that mostly are from blue states without jeopardizing traditional donor base.
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man I’m almost 30 and I don’t think that anyone in Congress shares my best interests in mind lol, I’m and I’m starting to feel that way with the judicial branch. I’m legitimately beginning to think that the only real solution to it all is to just leave the country.
Alternative headline: Kids aren’t total fucking idiots
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.
All the bad choices and dumb decisions I made as a kid… Everybody downvoting this is either a kid or suffering from amnesia.
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
Am idiot adult, former idiot kid. Can confirm.
You clearly don’t realize that a good chunk of the backbone of Reddit was literally developed by a 13 year old.
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.
single prayer health care
That’s the problem, we need more prayers! My new favorite typo
Must be one hell (pun intended) of a prayer to cover everything!
I’ve been fairly certain Congress doesn’t have my best interests in mind since the Iraq War. Most of what’s happened since then has only solidified that opinion.
