Agreed man, kids feel hopeless cos they genuinely don’t see a future for themselves and they understand they will never achieve the same level of success or comfort that their parents did. Like, sure social media is shit but the ban feels like people pearl clutching instead of actually reckoning with why the youth in Australia is growing up so troubled. It starts with having a conversation with u18s instead of dictating to them. IMO? Lower the voting age to 14 and create a youth parliament. If we genuinely believe in democracy should we not expand it to include everyone our laws affect?

Hungary and turkey with a general rise of far right parties in France, Germany and the UK. I’d say fascism is pretty popular over there.

You wrote a lot to not say much, China’s ‘new brand of socialism’ is just state run capitalism. Don’t get me wrong, they have achieved a lot and modern china is very impressive, Id like to visit one day. Still ain’t communist, and the ccp knows this, they just like the branding.

China is communist in name only, clearly. Would take a determined moron not to see that. Anyways, tankies are just red coloured fascists so I guess it’s silly to expect much from them anyways.

I think seppo fits better than yankee these days…