Tanuki aren’t folklore:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_raccoon_dog

Underage drinking is still more common than it should be,

Sure, but it’s significantly lower than legal drinking.

We as a society acknowledge the harm of underage drinking so prohibition is effective. Prohibition of adult drinking was puritan bullshit the majority didn’t agree with so it didn’t work.

I think you’d find a majority of parents agree social media is shit, but they’re unwilling to isolate their child. In this case prohibition would be effective.

Prohibition didn’t work for drugs either

I didn’t realize it was common for 14 year olds to drink alcohol and take heroin where you’re from…

“I only let my child smoke crack 3 hours a day”

If you set parental controls on your own teen’s device, all you’re doing is isolating them from their peers and making them the kid with the weird parent who doesn’t let them post on tik tok.

Social media isn’t what it was when we were growing up. It’s designed to prey on them the same way slot machines create gambling addictions.

I’m no puritan but I do truly believe banning kids from social media and restricting teens at a legislative level would be a net benefit for society. Same as alcohol or drugs.

Ban exports and travel into Russia until they leave Ukraine.

People don’t have to believe in Islam, Christianity, Judaism or any other religious bullshit.

If billions of people want to worship a pedophile, warmongering, rapist, I’ll reserve the right to make fun of them.

You said you can’t understand the appeal of youths having stupid haircuts when we did the exact same thing in our day.

You’re implying straightened emo hair or spiked frosted tips and jnco jeans were a timeless look?

Fair.

Where were the polish and Lithuanian colonies?

“I’m too tired to get the joke but I can still make an incredibly aggressive post attacking a stranger on the internet”

Maybe someone else should be keeping their mouth shut…

You’d have to prove all matter has consciousness for this right? Rocks, the sun, hydrogen atoms. We have evidence for the existence of reality before life but not the other way around.