YoungSheldonAdelson [they/them]

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Cake day: December 24th, 2022

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  • This is the same website that helped coordinate violent actions in Myanmar against Rohingya people. In Myanmar, Facebook had essentially no non-English language moderation. So the leaders of the violence campaign were posting their plans openly on Facebook and facebook picked it up and pushed it to more people because anti-Rohingya content was bringing in the most ad dollars and platform engagement.

    From Amnesty International;

    It revealed that even Facebook’s internal studies dating back to 2012 indicated that Meta knew its algorithms could result in serious real-world harms. In 2016, Meta’s own research clearly acknowledged that “our recommendation systems grow the problem” of extremism.















  • I’ve always had a problem with them making exceptions to try young persons as adults in court. Either there is a reason to consider young persons less competent than fully grown people or there isn’t. What responsibility are we talking about? The shooter has no more responsibility to take. They are dead.

    What I want to know is what did America get out of killing those young persons? Why does America love killing young people and puts up no barriers to entry when it comes to annihilating a classroom full of elementary school students? It’s practically impossible to make a living as an artist or to create something worthwhile in this country. But if you want to kill a bunch of children, boy, America is the place for you.


  • CW for the whole thing.

    The news says it was a teenage perpetrator this time. I’ll try to discuss the phenomenon in the abstract. I have no expertise in the subject, just a lifelong Amerikkkan.

    The confluence of white liberal parenting(the worst parents in the world), crypto-white supremacist communities, cities, and towns run by fascist death-worshipers, the market forces acting on them, and America itself produce mass killers like this intentionally. Every single time, and it has never happened by complete accident, a context is created by America that allows this to happen. A terrible, horrible gun culture, laws, information, and access. Instead of raising a kid with any direction or care the parents will allow market forces to pull and influence their child in a billion different directions. Now they are going to talk about mental illness, which at this point has been created by all the other external factors, but the community doesn’t see it that way and cannot do self-reflection. All that is left is a lonely individual, with no direction, constant precarity*, piloting a body producing a variety of different hormones linked to aggression and bad decision-making(we’ve all been there too.) Does it matter at this point how much this person was bullied or was a bully? That their motivation was revenge or just rage? I don’t believe so.

    There is immorality involved here, but it’s not in the perpetrator. The immorality is from their parents, from their communities, and America, The Great Satan, of course.

    *Children and teens are an oppressed underclass in America. They have no power, influence, or representation. With all the bad parents we have in America children are basically prey to the market.