Someone is truly in here going 
The hundreds of people gunned down daily is really a small percentage of the population so it's all just scaremongering. Several dozen people are upvoting it. I think I'm done with hexbear for a bit. Thanks for the fun posts, everyone
Being a child is criminalized. And the children are suffering. The point of childhood anymore doesn't seem to enjoy some innocence and learn life lessons and make mistakes in a loving or caring environment where you're shielded from most of the consequences. The purpose of childhood is to mold you into an ideal member of the proletariat. And to never ever misbehave, because the Eye in the Sky (whether that's your parents or the police state) is always watching and you'd better get used to it.
I've talked about the atrocious state of childrens' rights in this country, and had some really good discussion here about it. It's only getting worse. Don't walk or bike home from school, wait for your parent to come get you in an SUV. Don't go skateboarding, you hooligan. Don't hang out with friends or other kids in the neighborhood with only the admonition of being back before dark. Don't drink a beer, even as an adult- you'll go to jail. Don't host a party, you'll go to jail. Don't have awkward teenage sex. Don't go hang out downtown or explore the woods, you'll be raped and abducted and sold into slavery! Just stay home, on your phone where it's safe.
I fucking hate this. This shit honestly makes me despair more than climate change. I'm not sure why that is, obviously what we're doing to the climate could well spell the end of human civilization. I think I'm just really upset at this very clear, yet less dramatic impact of living in a fascist society. Being a child is criminalized.
I grew up relatively near a mall, and "mall kids" were never a thing, even in the early 2000s. I would be the only kid riding my bike as all the other kids were inside playing video games or watching TV.
I had mall kids where I was, and did some mall kidding myself. Problem was that the mall was like 4-5 miles away so getting there was a time investment.
i was a mall kid in the 90s. everybody knew somebody who worked at the food court where maybe we could get free refills. or worked at the movie theater in the mall, remember those? being a mall kid was totally a thing in the 80s and 90s, until malls stopped wanting kids around (aka "unattended minors"). the arcades closed, the mall cops appeared+multiplied, and trespass orders were issued because too many young people clustering in a place was thought to frighten away "real" shoppers. by the time i was 16, i knew 3 people who were banned from the mall (mall security would phone the PD on sight, even if they were cutting across the parking lot on the way to work), not for shoplifting or anything. just for being someone who hangs out too much and drawing the ire of the security bozos... and also
coded.
by early 2000s, the once-popular mall completely stopped being a destination for young people. even as i turned into a young adult, i had been passively conditioned to think of the mall as a place hostile to my presence... definitely not going to see any friends there hanging out, not a place to people-watch, so i never went there to make a purchase either because getting there was more of a hassle than whatever retail place actually specialized in what i was looking for.
dead/dying malls make me laugh. the entire concept was a climate controlled market district with casual eateries meant to attract casual milling around. and then they decided to actively drive away future customers.
they did it entirely to themselves.
Word. The sheer amount of hostility towards people casually existing in public spaces that has spread further and further over the last few decades is incredible.