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This is sad to see. Although it's interesting to me that older people seem to be happier than people in middle age. Is that true? I thought there was an elderly mental health crisis. Rise in suicide rates among elderly etc

[b]Myself am ncreasingly depressed to see that my children are set to inherit a world that is deepening in inequity and loss of opportunity and rise in social media which only makes everything worse. Kids have it tough these days.[/b][/quote]

I really, really don't think this outlook helps. At all. Did you read The Anxious Generation? Attitudes like this are basically reverse cognitive behavioral therapy, conditioning our kids to be anxious and depressed. Tell them the world is terrible and there's nothing they can do to change it and of course they'll hate everything.

Studies show the number one way to give people happiness is to give them a sense of purpose in the world. Community of course helps find purpose - it's a rare person who thinks a solitary life is a purposeful one, though it happens occasionally.[/quote]

It does suck so...

Pretend that it doesn't? 
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It’s always sucked. Always. The world hasn’t changed. It appears that the way people are processing it and incorporating it has changed.

I think it’s the increased isolation through the heavy use of online activities.[/quote]

I liked it better when millions of Americans weren't trying to burn it all down.

I take it that you haven't read the details of the project 2025 "big beautiful bill"?

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So you'd prefer when the British were literally burning it down (1812)? Or perhaps when millions of Americans were actually killing each other (Civil War)? Or when we were literally stealing land from Mexico (Mexican-American War and the long lead up to it) or Spain (Spanish-American War)? You'd prefer a country full of slave owners being willing to burn things down to keep it that way? You'd prefer all the brutality of westward expansion and the lies to Native Americans that required?[/quote]

Right. Because those are the ONLY options. GMAFB.

I'll take the 90s-00s before the GOP put the lunatics in charge.

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If you think this is the toughest time in human history and it’s normal for people to buckle under the stress of it, you don’t know much about history.

Bills? Through Congress? That follow our rule of law, even if we disagree with the provisions. That can be changed under future Administrations. OMG. [/quote]

Liar. I never said “this is the toughest time in history”.

And you still haven’t read it, have you? 
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