This isn’t even a "everyone is 12 now" moment, because even 12 year olds love buying action figures of unlikable, genocidal maniacs you should never aspire to be. No, this… this is something else, entirety
There is something deeply troubling about a society that is quick to demand the harshest punishment for children, while celebrating convicted plunderers, tolerating corruption, and rewarding leaders who normalize violence.
Young people do not grow up in a vacuum. They learn from the values we model, the behavior we reward, and the systems we build around them. Violence rarely begins at the moment it becomes visible. It is often preceded by bullying, social isolation, neglect, untreated trauma, and countless missed opportunities for intervention.
If we want children to reject violence, then we must also be willing to examine the ways our society excuses, glorifies, and profits from it. We cannot celebrate violence among adults and expect young people to learn a different lesson.
I don't think people really understand what a "social media ban for children" entails. The only way for the computer to know if you're NOT a child is if you give it your personal information, which means giving the government your personal information.
Sometimes i forgot how moralistic and tunnel visioned by “good representation” people are about art. Most people dont really care about art, they want moral validation with good aesthetics
Are the pro-socmed ban crowd even aware of the implications of the ban? Digital surveillance, data harvesting en masse, eroding of digital privacy, and trusting Big Tech with our personal information all of which are prone to data leaks and could not be accounted for?
“kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan" has become the reasoning of lazy parents/adults on how to raise and empower the youth.
they think bec of that phrase its the responsibility of the youth to raise and discipline themselves.
My root cause analysis of the Tacloban shooting with all info available all goes down too:
1. Easy access to questionable content.
2. Minimal to no parental supervision on children's media consumption.
3. Easy access to firearms.
It's NEVER video games. Period.
I hate it when current sitting politicians, with all their power and influence, use systemic failures to push their useless political agenda. Mga ma’am at sir, nakaupo kayo sa pwesto pero namumulitika lang kayo. Hindi lang kayo witness, you are part of this failure.
I need people to re-read the plot for a second: the brimmer hats aren't simply people that use forbidden magic, they're an actual group that we know did atrocious things (like experimenting on children).
So, even if the girls defected, they would NOT become brimmed hats.
Supposed a child:
1. Is raised in a society where violence is applauded and killings are celebrated.
2. Is exposed to violent video games.
3. Has access to weapons
4. Is misinformed about criminal liabilities
The culture and upbringing is to blame.
no, look up at their internet searches. games won't push you to murder people irl that decisively. they're clearly watching mass shootings on schools abroad.
i find jax tragic in the sense that she wouldve been a completely different person had leeroy gotten her brain scanned at a much different point in her life
the fact it happened during such a traumatic moment means jax was essentially doomed from the start
Weeks of discourse over how Jax is bad transfem rep just for her to end up becoming a Christ-like figure, sacrificing herself so that others could begin to explore who they are 😭 This is what queer storytelling is all about