The sort of person who is literate and is able to understand what the words they’re reading mean, but has never had a single independent thought in their life, and as such is not able to think beyond the words on the page in front of them and infer any context, wider meaning or implications. So they can read that an 8 year old did a charitable thing, and then have zero further thoughts about what the conditions are that mean the other 8 year olds are getting into food debt.

Now I think about it, probably the exact same type of person that condemns Hamas because Oct 7th “wasn’t very nice”, without a single thought about the history, motivations and actions that lead up to Oct 7th.

Imagine reading the article, and being so that you think “yes this is a wholesome good news story, all is well with society, silly OP mustn’t have even read it.”

I have some bad news for you.

Also it’s like the most inane solution to the problem at hand I can think of.

Problem statement: our society is so sick it has developed our offspring into socially withdrawn shut-ins.

Solution A: address the issues in our society to try affect the material conditions of our youth’s existence and their experiences of community/work/recreation, to try make things actually better for them and give them a society worth engaging with.

Solution B: pay money to a private corporation to have a fucking weekend’s themed getaway of a skin deep simulation of our children’s life experience, so we can develop a shred of empathy for our own children (!?!). With this new found empathy we will then do…. Nothing really.

I’ll be honest, I was half way through writing a similar comment to your until my sarcasm detector finally went off.

And what about Occupied Korean society may be causing these social breakdowns for their children? Is it the alienation they feel from some of the most oppressive capitalism on earth?

Yeah and make sleepy joe actually take his dafis this time.

Depends. (Haha)

Was the non speakers mic turned on while the other candidate was speaking? Makes more sense for it to have been trump in that case. Also depending on the mic type I’m not sure how well they pick up ‘distant’ noises like that? I would guess there are also some room mics to pick up audience reaction and questions, could have been off one of those. But I don’t know much about microphones so I don’t know about that.

Mostly worn by Gentlemen, not for the hoi polloi. It’s a duelling sword / fashion accessory / symbol of rank depending on the time and the individual. Primarily worn at court and in town rather than on campaign though officers may have carried them on campaign, again as a symbol of rank.

Here is the link to Al Jazeera, who made the documentary. Content warning for those that don’t know what this documentary is: it’s a harrowing documentation of Israeli war crimes in Garza, so I should expect it to be pretty triggering for many and very distressing for all.

Behold Plato’s American man.