The Democrats are not fine.

https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/

It’s bad and worse. People are so worried about keeping the worse party out of office that they refuse to criticize the bad party.

He’s not pro-gun.

I just said that.

Neither is he anti-gun.

I’m not very convinced of that.

“It takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures I like taking the guns early like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida he had a lot of firearms and they saw everything to go to court would have taken a long, long time so you could exactly what you’re saying but take the guns first, go through due process second.” - Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du4xz6Lndxk&t=43s

He’s pro-Trump.

I wouldn’t argue with that.

Why take a chance on Biden getting replaced with a good candidate?

The bump stock ban overturned by the Supreme Court was put in place by Trump. He is not pro-gun.

I read that he could be taken off the ballot in some places, but I haven’t verified that.

That’s not true. There are other felons with a chance at winning, they just haven’t been convicted yet.

Gun control advocacy is like a religion for some people.

No, but they aren’t looking at history for a pattern that matches current events. They are looking for current events to match to the historical pattern they already chose, which is Hitler’s rise to power.

They asked for more.

The government sought 151 months — or more than 12.5 years — in federal prison for Easterday

Eating, getting dressed, and talking with real people are all good things for your mental health. Typing on a keyboard doesn’t help, otherwise we’d be the least depressed generation ever.

I agree that typing on a keyboard isn’t a substitute for therapy. Writing can serve as an creative outlet for emotion in the same way as music or painting.

During the court-sanctioned intrusion, the DOJ “enabled temporary collection of non-content routing information” that would “expose GRU attempts to thwart the operation.” This did not “impact the routers’ normal functionality or collect legitimate user content information,” the DOJ claims.

I bet.

Yeah, I wasn’t very clear about what I meant.

I was talking about this part:

I generally prefer not to have a shared identity across communities

Same. It makes it much easier for someone to doxx you.

I am interested in the methodologies. I would like to see what studies use for a baseline in comparisons, whether they are comparing data collected today to data collected in the past, who is making the determination about whether a child has a mental illness or not, what role parents play in these sorts of studies, what sort of mental illnesses the studies look for or find, and the magnitude of the impact found by the studies.

I would also like to see exactly what you referred to as “unprecedented mental illness in kids.”

Have you read studies about how social media may be related to unprecedented mental illness in kids?

I’d like to see those studies.

I see your point.

I think I would still like it. I don’t have a problem with it not being implemented because other people wouldn’t like it.

If you know who is being toxic, you can block them.

Another interesting concept that came from the discussion over that was “constructive downvote” - requirement of commenting why one downvotes a post.

I think I like that idea.