Thomas Pardee
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Thomas Pardee
@Pardee
Almost always more interested in how we talk about a thing than I am in the thing itself.
Los Angeles, CA انضم Nisan 2008
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@rosecransaint You can be a superfan and acknowledge weak seasons.
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The actual clip makes it worse... she's just saying this season is slow... but picking up, and she likes the cast! This is not trashing, this is sharing a completely harmless opinion. Andy is a disaster.
Bye Wig Hello Drama@HousewivesHub
Clip of Sarah Michelle Gellar calling #RHOBH boring, which annoyed Andy Cohen, especially since his radio show’s name was displayed in the background.
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Some of the most diabolical crowd work I’ve ever seen
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings? CPAC CROWD: *cheers* SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.
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@billybinion No one is doing that self-righteously. It’s literally the opposite. I feel like you know that though and are trying to obfuscate or redirect away from what appears to be your position, which I guess is that social media is harmless? Why not say that and defend the point?
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I wouldn’t take someone seriously if they self-righteously lectured smokers about the horrors of tobacco while taking a drag from a cigarette, and I do not take people seriously as they yell about how social media is destroying society while they post 6 times an hour
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Many of the loudest voices decrying the horrors of social media are the same people posting every hour on the hour. If this technology is truly cancerous, then lead by example and log off. I won’t hold my breath.
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Addicts warning about the dangers of addiction is literally how it’s done, Billy. Who could be better placed to make the case?
This is so disingenuous it actually makes me nauseous. What exactly are you defending? What point are you making?
Billy Binion@billybinion
Many of the loudest voices decrying the horrors of social media are the same people posting every hour on the hour. If this technology is truly cancerous, then lead by example and log off. I won’t hold my breath.
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Don’t believe your lying eyes, everyone.
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
“As for social media ‘addiction’ there literally is no such thing. No diagnosis for that. Social media is not remotely the same as alcohol, nicotine, or heroin. There is no such thing as ‘dopamine hits’ which is merely pseudo-science sounding garnish on a load of served-up crap” grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/the-meta-tri…
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@Pardee Omg based on his reaction I expected her to actually be trash talking ??? She’s clearly a fan she has a lot of opinions and enjoys the cast like hellooo 😭 god he’s such a loser
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@insolventXBT @deadalright Hopefully I am! I had a mostly developed brain when this happened to me, and they’ve gotten a lot better at hooking kids now.
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@Pardee @deadalright You sound more "addicted" to social media than the kids you infantilize.
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One again Taylor Lorenz takes a comically wrong stance in support of people being glued to their god damn phones 24/7 as if it is not the single most urgent social problem of multiple generations.
Taylor Lorenz@TaylorLorenz
Her mother beat her, abused her, weighed her daily, called her fat, her sister tried to take her own life and her father abandoned her. Yet none of that apparently led to this poor girl’s anxiety, depression and body dysmorphia, it was lip gloss review videos on youtube
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@deadalright Social media is not a “treat” dude it’s an entire dimension of existence for these kids. And it’s increasingly impossible to opt out of.
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@Pardee Could she take little Debbie to court if she got addicted to sweets? I really think in these situations it's the parents responsibility to step in and limit their kid. All treats can be addictive, you can't ask the government to prosecute everyone making treats
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@RealHarryFlash This seems like some kind of performance of personal parenting virtue + a bizarre advocacy for companies rights to not be regulated. That is not my crusade. These companies are evil and I’d like to figure out how to hold them even a little bit accountable.
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Actually I'm a person who thinks companies should not be liable for bad parenting. I'm a father who would never blame an outside entity because I neglected my kids and let the internet parent them.
I'm a person who believes that juries should rule on facts, not on women's tears.
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@matthewgoldin You can argue the merits of this case or how we want to define addiction, but to dismiss the public reaction to these altogether unregulated companies’ obvious predatory behavior as some kind of mass hysteria just seems strange to me. It’s right in front of our eyes.
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@matthewgoldin I’m asking because you’re suggesting that this is a moral panic. I’m trying to deconstruct your reasoning there because it seems very clear to me that a functioning society very much depends on our ability to curb the behaviors of these tech companies.
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@deadalright I think refusing to see how video games and social media are not the same kind of addictive is to willfully ignore the glaring truth.
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@Pardee It's the extreme usage that's the issue here. While these people design the apps to be addicting it's going to be a hard sell in court to prove they need to offer some sort of disclosure. It would seem intuitive that parents should screen time. It's like video games in the 2000s
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@benjamuniverse1 @swageshia I care. I think a very good goal for the government should be protecting vulnerable citizens from bad actors who would take advantage of them for profit.
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@swageshia @Pardee The question isn't about whether the internet is "good for kids". Who cares? This is 100 percent in the control of parents. This is parental failure, not social media failure.
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Taylor Lorenz defends social media the same way an alcoholic or coke head defends their drug of choice.
Everything else is the problem.
Thomas Pardee@Pardee
One again Taylor Lorenz takes a comically wrong stance in support of people being glued to their god damn phones 24/7 as if it is not the single most urgent social problem of multiple generations.
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@odomasTay @rudy_betrayed "access to tech and media is healthy for people‘s brains" lolololololol
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@Pardee @rudy_betrayed Oh yeah, the difference being that sugar causes diabetes and access to tech and media is healthy for people‘s brains
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@odomasTay @rudy_betrayed I'd love some fucking partnership from my government (which I bankroll to benefit me and my community) in protecting me and my family from powerful entitites that would do us all harm. Yeah! I would.
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@Pardee @rudy_betrayed Sounds like you want the government to do basic parenting.
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@odomasTay @rudy_betrayed Obvious clear differences between sugar and a thing that was invented 20 years ago and is literally stealing the brains of our youth.
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