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They conclude: “We must take back our politics. We need to restore the rightful role of science in our political and societal discourse.”

They even sing to each other, their World War I-era characters sharing a love of American folk songs that gives them a societally acceptable passion to complement the one they can’t demonstrate.

TikTok responded saying it categorically rejected the commission's "misleading characterisation of our platform" which sought to "scapegoat our company on industry-wide and societal challenges".

The series endures because it’s a “comic masterpiece,” Simon said, but also because it “deals with a pervasive societal problem in America: loneliness.”

These incidents demonstrate that violence is not confined to one political ideology but reflects broader societal dysfunction.