What are they doing right in Nevada?
Suicide rising across the US
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#12The article avoids pointing out the obvious, but the map makes it clear this rise is predominantly among white Americans.
Whites are the only racial group that you are allowed to openly hate and make disparaging jokes and comments about in polite company.
Whites are even gaslit into not believing that such a group even exists ("whiteness is a social construct"). Imagine if they same were done to any other group.
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#13What are they doing right in Nevada?
What happens in Vegas, stays in YouTube.
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#15THIS IS NOT a politically motivated post. Compare the map in TFA with this map, which I trivially Googled: http://news.gallup.com/poll/203117/gop-maintains-edge-state-... It's not a perfect correlation, but to my untrained eye, looking at both maps, it seems to me that red (eg, Republican) states appear to correlate closely with higher suicide states. But please judge and compare the maps for yourself and form your o…
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#16"Hey kid: did you know that your very being is offensive and actually downright violent towards me and there is nothing you can do about it because it literally has to do with a fundamental aspect of who you are." Absolutely shocking that suicide is up.
I don't know why the downvotes. What you say is true.
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#17THIS IS NOT a politically motivated post. Compare the map in TFA with this map, which I trivially Googled: http://news.gallup.com/poll/203117/gop-maintains-edge-state-... It's not a perfect correlation, but to my untrained eye, looking at both maps, it seems to me that red (eg, Republican) states appear to correlate closely with higher suicide states. But please judge and compare the maps for yourself and form your o…
There is a running joke that all geographical heat maps are palette swapped demographic maps.
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#18"Hey kid: did you know that your very being is offensive and actually downright violent towards me and there is nothing you can do about it because it literally has to do with a fundamental aspect of who you are." Absolutely shocking that suicide is up.
Yeah strawmen suck
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#19What are they doing right in Nevada?
Reasonable cost of living and good jobs.
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#20What are they doing right in Nevada?
The graph is only showing changes in suicide rates. Perhaps Nevada's was already high?