Holy shit people under capitalism are fucking evil towards the most vulnerable people.
How many boomers are losing their shit over kids committing petty crimes is insane.
You'd think they'd click that it's because of poverty and, you know, there being NO FUCKING FUTURE.
But no, old people are screeching about how kids are little shits that need to be punished even more. They want to just arrest everyone and create career criminals instead of solving the real root causes behind it (poverty, capitalism, lack of society caring about their problems).
They act as though this was caused because "people are too nice to their kids now."
Holy shit, are you joking?
These poor fucking kids man.
I hate that the media can just heard old people like this, stop them from seeing issues created by powerful adults by attacking literal children.
It's the most obvious fash propaganda technique and yet they fall for this kind of shit all the time
Society has been turned into child sacrificing monsters, what hope so we have of a better future if THIS is what the people with the most power believe.
A species that eats its own children is doomed to extincton.
My state legislature in the USA is spending an inordinate amount of time crafting legislative fixes for the recent spree of car thefts that Young Criminals are committing after seeing tik toks about how easy it is. Given the racism and fear of cities here, you can imagine the confluence of weird reactionary ideas that goes through people's minds. They think it's Chinese psyops directing the hordes of illegal anchor babies to wreck their pickup trucks.
And it's not like youth crime isn't a problem. I street park my car, and we've had break-ins and catalytic converter theft in this neighborhood, so I personally want some solutions. But there's never any thought put into actually trying to improve the opportunities that these kids have. Or to providing support for direct interventions in the lives of those kids who are most at-risk (it's usually pretty obvious which ones those are, you can just ask their teachers). Instead, we just get the usual responses: more cops, and platitudes about how the state government is going to sue Kia. Meanwhile, we continue to create a world that is utterly hostile to kids. Children of Men is an aspirational goals for these people, I swear.