Yeah, sorry. Its a bit much. I have read about school teachers frustrated with the situation…I don’t know how common it is.

I have two teenage boys. It is a worry.

I know that older men have been targettimg boys for over a decade now, seducing them with edgy memes, porn or whatever then exploiting their social awkwardness with appeals to misogyny and twisted versions of gender roles which is a pipeline to other bigotry and the whole alt-right movement. Radicalised young men are the emerging threat now as boomer power dies out.

You hear of little kids talking about their favourite social influencing sex trafficker rapists like it’s socially acceptable now. I worry that the social progress women have made is going to go backwards, perhaps a lot, and I have a daughter as well.

Despite being very competent gamers and consuming plenty of online media my boys seem to have escaped with their critical thinking intact so far. I don’t hover over them. They could be into stuff of course and I wouldn’t know. We have walked into this with our eyes closed.

Oops. Sorry. Every time the media runs click bait about North Korean missiles hitting Australia I get the ruler out and see Europe and the western coast of the USA are closer than me. I recalled distances from Beijing to Sydney vs European cities, not the South China sea.

Still there are over 600 million people living to the north of us in the ASEAN group, a couple of their countries having contested claims in the South China Sea. It is fucking weird that we fly past them all to go up there and swing our dicks around. It looks arrogant and it looks like we are the US’s bitches. When Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines ask us for help perhaps we should be good neighbors. Until then what the fuck are we even doing?

Yep. Its a different hemisphere. Europe is closer to China than us. Why aren’t the Brits, French and Germans doing this?

For us to travel half way across the world to intrude into their airspace is clearly provocative and dumb considering they are a major export market and we have a tiny military that would be better served protecting our national security. As Canada and Europe are finding out, the US alliance isn’t what it used to be. If China started shooting back, chances are Trump would leave us to fend for ourselves. We probably aren’t getting those submarines either.