[0xDEF]

From across the pond it feels like American millennials and Gen-Z have already declared their country to be a failed state.

How much can a nation progress if its youth is pessimistic about everything? It doesn't matter whether the pessimism is based on actual problems (healthcare, housing prices etc.) or learned through terminally online reddit/twitter consumption.

[SonicScrub]

As the folk-wisdom goes "Twitter isn't real life". The ones who have that opinion are the terminally online.

[godzillabrennus]

It’s amazing reading this knowing a billionaire squandered that brand name after pouring billions into acquiring it. I hope when the smoldering ruins are auctioned at the bankruptcy proceedings jack gets to buy it back and uses it for his decentralized network.

[bogota]

Don’t confuse what you read online or in the news with what is actually happening.

[jamesaurichs]

If we're talking about the contents on TikTok, there's probably a very good reason why the ultimate owner of TikTok, the Chinese government, wants that kind of content to be the majority sentiment on the platform.