Next up: US places tarrifs on all cuban imports and exports regardless of weather they have anything to do with the US or not.

Im beginning to realise my entire personality is just adhd.

Lets just hope the US empire falls first. Then cuba can start rebuild itself.

So we need a fascist society where your rights depend on your iq? Smarter people deserve to live without surveilance but less smart people should be spied on?

I am flaberghasted by your hot takes.

Wait so its not against specifically anti musk its on musk in general.

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Are you an advocate for a suvelance state?

So real! As long as your talking about the Avatar that isn’t blue…

99% of people spend majority of there time on screens consuming, which is the other half of capitalism and very important for corporate profits. Also social media is one of the most effective propaganda machines ever, corporations will not willingly throw that away.

Also dude wtf are you doing? You just joined the fediverse like 6 days ago and your insulting people for speaking there mind? Here on lemmy.ml we expect you are respectful even when disagreeing, you won’t be welcome here if you are unkind to everyone who has a different opinion to you.

100% The root cause is addictive algorithms and big tech not giving a shit.

One could argue that the fediverse such as lemmy can be addictive (I should really be going to bed rn but here I am), but nowhere near to the same extent as something like facebook or instagram which causes people to be so addicted they seperate themselves from society and social relationships, get driven to suicide, participate in excessive buying due to ads etc…

Well that’s good to hear that it’s working for some people. It’s strange how some under 16s can still access social media (without using any work arounds like vpns) and others are effectively blocked.

Make TVs and mobiles.phones so expensive that its out of reach of 9-5s and poor people as they are the majority. Yeah I don’t think this is the solution here.

Regulate social media so it’s less addictive, or better yet promote a society where accumulation of wealth isn’t the main driver of big decisions. Overall I still believe mobile phones have been overall beneficial to people who have them.

I live in Australia. The social media ban for under 16’s was not successful at all. (this is anecdotal) Majority of social media platforms did not get effectively eradicated (including ticktock, instragram etc…) for under 16s. And at least snapchat (and maybe others) did get properly banned but then a few months later under 16s could log straight back on again with no issues.

Opinion time: even if the social media ban was regulated properly it still likely wouldn’t be effective, sure children that abide by the law and aren’t completely addicted will stop using social media. But the children that are properly addicted and need help are going to find ways around the ban, like using vpn’s and get driven underground being less likely to seek help since there is now an extra reason for it to be considered shameful. Just like banning drugs, banning social media doesn’t solve the issue.

I think an intelligent Marxist (not me) needs to do a proper class analysis on this I have found individual articles that have shown links between the social media ban and the gambling industry. And the gambling industry doesn’t give a crap about weather or not the ban is successful they just want a public distraction from laws that prevent the gambling industry taking advantage of the working class.

I see that your Australian too, I am interested what information shows the social media ban to be successful, I could be wrong but I think it’s safe to assume in most situations an apparent win for workers is disguised as a win for capital.

Well yay?

I just hope that people living in those countries still get free free access to other UN countries because that is a pretty cool benifit.

Living in australia right now. We still have a 2 party system, we still don’t have socialism. Still 99% of people you talk to will say communism works great in theory but in practice…

I wished preferential voting would have changed things, but it doesn’t.

Wait why is a working class party necessary in current capitalist systems when what we want is to overthrow the current governments and instate a socialist ones?

So real 😭

Mildly unrelated point that I wanted to say here, ive found that I can now find the answers to a lot of my questions by putting lemmy in the search bar instead of reddit. There definetly arent as many results but they are usually higher quality than redits.

Mindustry, great open source game. Although it was so addictive I ended up deleting it. Now I don’t have any games on my phone.

To extend that, people that have there notification sound on all the time is really annoying, just leave it on vibrate it’s just as useful!