I can see this becoming a culture war thing like vaccines. Conservatives will become pro-CSAM because it triggers the overly sensitive crybaby Liberals.
We've already got a taste of that with people like Megyn Kelly saying "it's not pedophilia, it's ephebophilia" when talking about Epstein and his connections. Not surprising though. When you have no principles you'll go as far as possible to "trigger the libs".
Already the case. I can’t dig up the link, but I recall that a recent poll showed that about half of Republicans would still support Trump even if he was directly implicated in Epstein’s crimes.
This has already been a culture war thing, and it's why X.com is able to continue to provide users with CSAM with impunity. The site is still up after everything, and the app is still on the app store everywhere.
When the far-right paints trans people as pedophiles, it's not an accident that also provides cover for pedophiles.
The age of consent between 16 and 18 is a relatively high born from progressive feminist wins. In the United States, the lowest AOC was 14 until the 1990s, and the AOC in the US ranged from _7 to 12_ for most of our existence.
To be clear, I'm in defense of a high age of consent. But it's something that had to be fought for, and it's not something that can be assumed to be safe in our culture (like the rejection of nazis and white supremacists, or valuing womens rights including voting and abortion).
Influential politicians like Tom Hofeller were advocates for pedophilia and nobody cares at all. Trump is still in power despite the Epstein controversy, Matt Gaetz still hasn't been punished for paying for sex with an underage girl in 2017. The Hitler apologia in the far-right spaces even explicitly acknowledge he was a pedophile. Etc.
In a different era, X would have been removed from Apple and Google's app stores for the CEO doing nazi salutes and the chatbot that promoting Hitler. But even now that X is a CSAM app, as of 3PM ET, I can still download X on both of their app stores. That would not have been normal just two years ago.
This has already been a culture war issue for awhile, there is a pro-pedophilia side, and this is just another victory for them.
Waymo may be currently safer than human drivers, but this right here is why I don't believe for a second they'll stay that way. People will complain it took to long to get somewhere because "stupid car was following all the rules!" and they'll be programmed to become more aggressive and dangerous (and due to regulatory capture they'll get away with this of course). I've already noticed this in San Francisco.
Look at when all the "No Kings" protests are happening: on the weekend. Because there is no way the vast majority of Americans can go on strike, because healthcare is tied to employment. This is why healthcare is never getting "fixed" in America--it's doing its job quite well.
I've taken BART and it's fine but expensive (there's an airport fee that's something like $8 per ticket each way). For groups/families I could see rideshare winning on both cost and convenience.
One of the houses across the street from me had its driveway dug up, all the way from the street to inside the garage, for what I first thought was for putting a bathroom or something in the downstairs level. When I walked past the old pipes they took out they were full of roots.
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