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U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Re: U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs

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Post by colpabar »

sieongioetnio wrote: post #58
GiorgioG wrote: post #9

In the last few years inflation has hurt the fuck out of all but the richest Americans. Financial stress leads to depression. Add both political parties are constantly telling us the other side is ruining everything and it's just piling it on. A recession is here/coming.

I don't understand this concern about inflation. It was never that high, didn't last very long, and wages kept up pretty well (real wages are higher today than they were a year ago [1]). People are panicking over a problem that has done little real harm. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/economy/real-wages-inflation/...

Should everyone just eat cake then? Nobody cares what CNN or any other org says when they can see with their own eyes that milk and eggs and everything else cost more now than they did just a few years ago.

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Post by sieongioetnio »

chrisco255 wrote: post #59
jackmott42 wrote: post #34

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There's something about yourself you should evaluate if you can't fathom someone else thinking differently than you, and you let those things affect your mood and happiness. Also, I don't know if you saw the Durham report, but there's plenty of more reasons to be troubled with the established players in Washington: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/15/politics/john-durham-report-f...

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Post by ashleyn »

thelopa wrote: post #40
kayodelycaon wrote: post #33

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Moving to a heavily blue state may be a better and far cheaper option, they are holding the pro-queer line for the time being. Judging historically on blue states' treatment of some other issues like immigration, I don't expect them to cooperate with any anti-queer laws on the federal level.

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Post by George83728 »

throwaway202351 wrote: post #110
George83728 wrote: post #97

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Same-sex marriage wasn't nationally legal until 2015. How can you say that social conditions for LBGT people in America are worse in the present than in the past? Maybe if you're only looking in the past few years, but zoom out to view a few decades and it doesn't make sense. What qualifies as extreme anti-LGBT rhetoric today was very mainstream 20 years ago.

If someone was born post-AIDS (so roughly age 40 and below), they'd have gotten to see things slowly improve until 2016, when they started sliding back.

> until 2016, when they started sliding back.

I really doubt there are statistics to back this up. More likely, the number of people consuming rage-bait (drawing attention to the worst) on social media such as reddit has done up.

Without such social media, an asshole yells abuse in a store and it ruins the day of 20 people in earshot. With social media, it gets uploaded and viewed by 20,000 people.

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Post by sieongioetnio »

carimura wrote: post #50
jackmott42 wrote: post #34

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I know people like this too. Trump is obviously a flashpoint, but is it really him or is it the constant media narratives being fed to us about "the other side" being a danger to our safety. Many folks on the right that I know have the same (but not to this extent) visceral reaction to say Biden, Newsom, etc.

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