Crazy how there are stories like this every day in the USA, but Americans will still eat it up when politicians say we have to do something about China or Russia or Iran's violation of human rights.
Most propagandized people on the planet
we're going to see unprecedented levels of teens playing on the street this summer, followed by unprecedented levels of curtain-twitchers posting photographs of teens on facebook going "WHOS KIDS R THESE. WHY ARE THEY OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. I HAVE NOTIFIED THE POLICE"
that’s the question isn’t it. what WILL she do? there are no youth clubs for her to attend. food, cinema tickets, any sort of third space activity is all too expensive. their parents are underpaid, saturday jobs don’t exist any more, children have truly been abandoned by the govt
ridiculous that we have all these supposed billionaire geniuses running around, and their greatest innovation of our lifetime has been stealing our personal data to sell us targeted ads.
You used to be able to go to the garden shop or hardware store and they’d get excited about your projects/give you pointers and now half the time you ask where something is and are met with a blank stare.
marner: “i bottled the cup once again!”
hart: “im the worst goalie in scf history!”
eichel: “im washed as hell!”
howden: “im a national embarrassment!”
real footage of seth jarvis and the good ole canadian boys on the strip:
I love that students are still making statements, still walking out, still talking about this - when it feels everyone, everything has “moved on” I’m glad to see this. Not because it materially changes any realities for Palestinians (and Lebanese, Iranians, etc) but because it forces everyone who witnesses it to remember the on-going, unending crimes of our country against entire peoples.
doing this without investing in kid-friendly public spaces and programmes makes no sense whatsoever. all this is gonna do is push kids to use more fringe and unregulated social media apps