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How would hurting elderly be more harmful than hurting children? I know that we are about to live in gerontocracy, but it’s still a wild statement to make.
by azan_ 2mo ago
How would hurting elderly be more harmful than hurting children? I know that we are about to live in gerontocracy, but it’s still a wild statement to make.
- TheOtherHobbes 2mo agoThe elderly can vote, and are easier to scam. Harming kids creates harmed kids. Harming elders helps install terrible governments which harm everyone - including kids.
- Spooky23 2mo agoLook around. The raging dumpster fire consuming everything was started by armies of stupid old people manipulated on platforms like Facebook. The kids will be ok. The revolution won’t be started by boomer dads.
- SpicyLemonZest 2mo agoThere's just no conceivable legal case there. Manipulating "stupid old people" and causing them to believe bad things is First Amendment protected activity.
- Spooky23 2mo agoSure there is, they are conspiring to break a variety of federal laws and continue to do so. I continue to get ads to join WhatsApp “investor groups” supposedly endorsed by Warren Buffet. I got one the other day that is run by Charlie Munger, who apparently rose from the dead to promote pump and dump schemes. It’s inconceivable that Facebook doesn’t spot that sort of thing. They took a similar eyes off approach to the illegal foreign entity election manipulation.
- Transfinity 2mo agoThe DOJ pays a lot of attention to elder abuse: https://www.justice.gov/elderjustice/about-elder-abuse https://www.justice.gov/elderjustice/about-elder-abuse I don't know that I would agree it's _worse_ than what FB does to children. But there's clearly a parallel, in that a vulnerable segment of society is prey to a careless corporation and the heinous ecosystem of scamers and abusers they foster.