Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Valmy]

Otoh, if you're a young child, your experience will probably be worse being trafficked than getting covid.

A nation's problems and one person's biggest problems are often not the same.

But why not child murder? Isn't that a bigger problem? At least the trafficked ones can still escape or be rescued or something.

[The Minsky Moment]

Incredibly, child trafficking has existed and been a serious problem since time immemorial, despite lack of any interest from Trumpy nutters that follow Qanon crap on the internet. There are organizations that track this problem and advocate for resources and attention to combat it.  Which involves, e.g., strengthening social services, funding local community resources, reforming immigration so that desperate migrants have some choice other than to turn to the worst criminals for "help", etc. and other things that the Trump admin has spent much of the last three years undermining.

Sadly it turns out that sharing memes on Facebook and increasing COVID infection rates by violating basic public health guidelines does little to decrease human trafficking.

[Duque de Bragança]

From you know whom. 

You keep saying that, and I don't think any of us know who you're talking about.

You are the one I have to to keep telling where most of the memes from that anti-vaxxer, pandemic, QAnon, pro-Trump, anti-5G and anti Bill Gates, vaguely libertarian conspiracy theory poster, come from. 

And I keep having no idea what you're talking about...

Focus on identity is so identity politics. 
I thought it would be obvious, somebody on my facebook contact list. Given the focus on Germany, with some crappy German-speaking memes from time to time, it is easy to guess it is an acquaintance of mine. From my Frankfurt days, to be precise.

[Razgovory]

"Jews killing children is a much greater concern than the Bubonic Plague."

[Duque de Bragança]

"Jews killing children is a much greater concern than the Bubonic Plague."

Well, he did not fall to those depths.

[Razgovory]

"Jews killing children is a much greater concern than the Bubonic Plague."

Well, he did not fall to those depths.

It's the same thing, just updated for the 21st century.

[Syt]

There's still such folks out there.

[grumbler]

There's still such folks out there.

Yeah, and what's ironic is that it was trivially easy to point out that no such person gave any such speech.  In fact, rabbi Abarron Haviv doesn't even exist online anywhere.

There's a car dealership in Tel Aviv called "Aharron Haviv," though.

[Eddie Teach]

He said too much, so the Elders have repressed any mention.

[DGuller]

He said too much, so the Elders have repressed any mention.

Always with the conspiracies.  The elders are just not very good with technology, being the elders and all, so that's why you can't find any mentions online.

[Tonitrus]

I make it a policy to never trust any quote appended to an image.

[merithyn]

Incredibly, child trafficking has existed and been a serious problem since time immemorial, despite lack of any interest from Trumpy nutters that follow Qanon crap on the internet. There are organizations that track this problem and advocate for resources and attention to combat it.  Which involves, e.g., strengthening social services, funding local community resources, reforming immigration so that desperate migrants have some choice other than to turn to the worst criminals for "help", etc. and other things that the Trump admin has spent much of the last three years undermining.

Sadly it turns out that sharing memes on Facebook and increasing COVID infection rates by violating basic public health guidelines does little to decrease human trafficking.

Wut?? Unpossible!

[Valmy]

I make it a policy to never trust any quote appended to an image.

[The Brain]

I make it a policy to never trust any quote appended to an image.

There are so many things wrong with this. Do you actually think this way?

[Valmy]

Do you actually think this way?

Yes