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Congratulations kids. You officially know all you need to about Congress.

Alternative headline: Kids aren't total fucking idiots

Thought this was an Onion headline

If they cared about kids they’d do something about school shootings, stop blocking food stamps, go after religious figures that sexually abuse children, pass universal healthcare, and a myriad of other things. Congress, and particularly Republicans, don’t care about children AT ALL. Children are a political talking point, a useful point of leverage, for them, but that’s it.

Going after tech companies is useful in two ways:

1. It distracts from going after the actually things that harm children (gun manufacturers, poverty, child molester priests) and lets politicians look tough.

2. They can beat up tech companies that mostly are from blue states without jeopardizing traditional donor base.

Well yea..

man I'm almost 30 and I don't think that anyone in Congress shares my best interests in mind lol, I'm and I'm starting to feel that way with the judicial branch. I'm legitimately beginning to think that the only real solution to it all is to just leave the country.

I think KOSA is a terrible bill. I've written both my senators about it. It only takes a couple minutes.

I could have told them that. congress knows about school shootings and child poverty and healthcare and ineffective methods of teaching and they overwhelmingly choose not to do anything about it.

legislating mentions of homosexuality and transgenders out education doesn't protect kids. refusing to acknowledge history to "protect" one subset of kids feelings doesn't protect kids. and using kids as political chips because they don't have agency doesn't protect kids. it really and solely protects the old establishment which is becoming smaller and more irrelevant to society every day.

I don't have kids myself but I would tell them that anyone who claims to speak for you you need to listen to what they are saying and decide for yourself if they are speaking for you. because I am for damn sure the vast majority are only appealing to the parents, not the kids.

I’ve been fairly certain Congress doesn’t have my best interests in mind since the Iraq War. Most of what’s happened since then has only solidified that opinion.

I don't want Congress raising our nation's children. They always use their "protect children" dog whistle to cause panic and yet get nowhere. Parents should really stop asking the government to raise their children for them.