Around 5 billion people have smart phones, it was a first world problem a decade or two ago, everywhere has them. Hell for the poorest African nations a person is more likely to own a smart phone than a car or fridge.

So where, then, are kids getting money for gacha, if parents are buying games in your alternative world?

That would still be taking money from kids. One would assume marketing is involved so that’s tricking kids into making a purchase.

My solution is simply stop letting kids have video games. If we want to censor things, let’s censor them.

Except China actually completes these things. They installed more solar in 2023 than all other countries installed new power of all types combined.

They have more nuclear power plants than the rest of the world combined. They have more wind power than the rest of the world combined.

Oh, and they have more high and low speed rail than the rest of the world combined, and most of that was built in the last twenty years.

So all games should be free?

We shouldn’t allow children online or playing video games. If we’re going full jack Thompson, let’s go full jack Thompson. No one under 21 gets Internet or games.

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Assuming insurance covers it. And you only have a 60% chance of having it covered.

That’s nice that you enjoy a much less expansive library of entertainment and practically no social interaction. Most people think that’s too large of a tradeoff in a world where corpos have all the information about you from birth.

Hope you trust your VPN provider, that’s the most common single point of failure given your ISP is collecting and selling all of your data.

You sure they’re not wars? The several million dead injured, and enslaved non whites targeted in said wars probably disagree.

Median monthly income in China according to most sources I can find is just 1300-1400 USD. Still, 82 USD for that income is not expensive, and that’s for higher end private medical care outside the main healthcare system.

It’d be like an American paying for medical care with a weeks groceries.

…neither of those things were wars, and both of those campaigns were successful by any possible measure.

Yes, you know the dozen billionaires that will be in the executive branching in 3 days, or the hundred or so billionaires that completely control the US government?

Everyone that moved to rednote absolutely knows their data was scrapped by Tiktok, including contacts and general behavior on their phone.

We’re 30 years past that mattering. Everyone corporations and thus every government with money knows what you masturbate to and what makes you laugh. They all know where you work and what your net worth is. If they don’t it takes less than a dollar to find out through your advertising id report.

None of the major data brokers refuse to sell to specific governments.

Both parties have attempted in gain a partisan majority in scotus, one succeeded, and now Republicans have succeeded.

Three of the accomplishments in that selection were struck down before going into effect, the antitrust doj actions are nice and all, but don’t actually fix anything or defend the working class – mainly because the effect the admin desired, price reduction and wage increases, didn’t happen. Inflation corrected wages are lower now than in 2020, and food prices never stabilized.

Clear campaigns with easily defined goals and exact steps lines out aren’t wars on vague concepts, fascist xunt.

Edit, sorry, didn’t look at the last one. Yeah I guess a war on racist characatures is kinda vague, you racist xunt.

That’s a hell of a gpt response and all, but no, state capitalism isn’t a thing and left wing thought has evolved in the last nearly 200 years. Except in the US.

Nope I’m not, but do read that page sometime and ask yourself what the right response is to a group of us citizens and college age Chinese men that steal weapons from police and start killing civilians.

China didn’t have a war on terror or war on crime.