I've been an active part of two movements that saw police prosecuted and systemic changes implemented which also included being assaulted by police and requiring medical attention. I'm 100% comfortable with the contributions I've made. Every piece of progress and justice I've been a part of has involved (as you say), "making it a problem for people with power", not spouting pseudo-macho bullshit about other people shooting police.

I've fought for causes like this for almost 40 years and I've never seen people so fucking toothless. Forget actually acting on anything, they don't even make art art about it. They just regurgitate corporate talking points about guns and sulk on the internet if someone disagrees. They promote other people dying in a hail of bullets or spending the rest of their life in prison and they won't even send an email.

But it sure is easy to just be stepped back and making a claim for other people to figure out.

A criticism you're clearly not interested in applying evenly to the people in this thread.

Yeah that's what I said but it's unpopular when it's about something that matters.

It doesn't matter either way because if they've got their knee on the neck of an innocent person, it's not safe to shoot at them. Hopefully that doesn't spoil anyone's virtue signalling, macho fantasy because that's a tragedy far deeper than the torture, abuse and summary execution of innocent people.

Then I should have the support of the people in this thread then since they've made it clear that their preferred solution is tutting and suggesting dumb shit that helps abusive cops.

But oh no! I haven't been polite enough! I should have just advocated firing guns at people instead.

Sure I do, because he has the solution of a fucking idiot: "We should be able to shoot at cops with our cool guns".

Maybe you should try getting more upset? If you're going to do nothing of consequence, you could at least do it with some passion. Even on an anonymous platform with no consequences, all you're bringing to the table is "touch grass" tone policing.

They'll scream for blood, but it won't be the blood of billionaires.

They own the largest communication networks across the globe, both traditional and digital. They have access to the most cutting edge AI technology that's fast becoming indistinguishable from reality. They're cooperating with the man in charge of the most elaborate troll farm ever created.

They'll use that power to keep breeding angry, violent reactionaries who blame minorities and swallow whatever their cult leader tells them to. But that will be rookie shit a decade from now. Forget social media sock puppets, our entire chain of knowledge is about to be undermined. Bullshit, agenda pushing academic papers will be published, filled with bullshit, agenda pushing statistics, fawned over by bullshit, agenda pushing media and cited in bullshit, agenda pushing books. It will spew out at a rate far faster than anyone can possibly debunk and even if they try, they're indistinguishable from the AI-powered, sock puppet "experts" they're arguing with.

Laws, regulations and life-altering punishments are the only way to stop them so they're working hard to ensure that never happens.

As much as you possibly can. Remember that in a neoliberal utopia, each week you'd bring tens of thousands of dollars in for a company, be compensated with minimum wage and then hand those wages straight back to the nearest billionaire in exchange for food and shelter. If you have any money left at the end of the week, that's abhorrent to them.

Oh you've been shooting at cops have you? Following through on your super cool solution?

Luckily, they have you to leap to their defense when someone tells them to act on their concerns.

There's a long history of protest against police brutality, all over the world. How many have you been involved with? I'm tired of social media being full of lazy fucks who see shit like this and just say "damn that sucks" and go back to doing fucking nothing or pro-gun fuckstains claiming "Somebody should shoot them. Not me of course, somebody more expendable".

Get them under control then. I'm sick of the fucking "thoughts and prayers" generation.

Don't be coy, tell us what you think we should be using it for.

The slimiest form of whattaboutism. Tankies don't control a major political party, the highest court, giant media networks or any of the smaller institutions that support those. You may as well be shouldering yourself into a conversation about misinformation and education and drooling "but what about flat earthers".

Come back with a real problem.

Because "extreme liberals" push things like equality, respect, social progress and accountability and "extreme conservatives" push bigotry, violence, greed and shit that fixes nothing.

I think more broadly, it happens whenever there is the mentality of "more X, no matter what". Usually that's profit, but I don't think it's mandatory.

If they don't already, they will. The insatiable desire for profit means that even if you paid them $1000 a month for their dogshit rag, they'd sell your data to make $1001 dollars.

Regulations are the only answer and they have to be both enforced and punished heavily enough to not make it worth risking.

You know how we can tell that your comment is nothing more than far-right propaganda? By how oblivious it is to any group outside of "young straight white men".

Your cuddly, caring far-right routinely and deliberately tries to teach children that they're "everything wrong with the world", just not the white male ones. .

They try and bully trans kids into suicide. They gleefully hurl slurs at black kids and gay kids. They teach little girls that their value lies in being a servant with a low "body count". They accuse them of ruining everything from video games to dating and relationships.

But it's not bad when you do it huh?

Your explanation is worthless but thanks for the example of exactly the kind of social media content that lures children to the right. Let's just hope they grow up and learn to see the difference between contrarianism and wisdom.

It's the same thing it's been for decades, people just assumed that white people in wealthy countries were immune to it.

Bingo. Elon has a pathological need to be fawned over and will say whatever he needs to to make that happen.

Initially, he found that warm mouth in the left wing for championing products to address climate change, but he was still being held accountable for his failures and obnoxiousness.

When Trump showed him that reactionaries will love you just being a narcissistic asshole and they could be bought for a pittance, he jumped ship. If a bigger, more easily swayed group of people became available to him, he'd rewrite his personality to pander to them instead.