About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 year ago

    Ok first of all I get you, as someone from Europe, the greatest strengths of America often sound like the biggest weaknesses to me.

    And then ofc if you wanna talk about it I’m here and I will listen :) hope you’re doing good.

    • @PRUSSIA_x86
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      241 year ago

      American culture was deeply scarred by the cold war in ways that I don’t think many people realize. Over the last 80 years, the pursuit of self-interest has come to dominate every aspect of life and in turn degrades any attempt at community or helping one another. It’s quite sad actually. The America that gave my grandparents the opportunity to drag themselves out of poverty has turned around and eaten itself alive.

    • AggressivelyPassive
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      151 year ago

      Yep. Extreme egoism is great if you’re a winner, but horrible if you’re not. And most people are not winning.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I would argue it’s not even good even if you are winning.

        Even if you strike gold and get rich, what use is all of it if you’re alone?

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          61 year ago

          Well, you don’t have to be alone and you don’t have to be super rich to be a winner.

          Even a western middle class person is a winner. Not winning as much as Musk or Zuckerberg, but still winning.

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      1 year ago

      Literally can’t talk about because I get death threats because I made some bad people mad. And I know what they are capable of.

      All my social media is watched by them.

      Edit: I always get down votes for my real life experience posts. The world is fucked, you just shut out anything that goes against the privilege you were born into. Life is death war and chaos. You can either live for humanity or continue making rich criminals richer while you deny reality. I’ve seen people get other people murdered by cops on purpose. It’s real. This is America… There is zero hope.

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          What the fuck? How privileged are you? Your so fucking caught up in whack dumbass pop “doomerism” that you think gang shit doesn’t go on… Your pathetic. Wake the fuck up and walk through a ghetto you pathetic piece of shit. I’ve almost been murdered literally… have you…? Have you? You piece of privileged piece of shit? I’ve had people shoot guns outside my house and threaten to kill my family and your pathetic ass wants to call it doomerism? Wake the fuck up and get smacked out of your precious privileged life.

          You never want to know what it’s like. Every day I think about killing myself because of the reality I’ve seen. And you want to call it doomerism… Jesus Christ America’s dead as fuck.

          Imagine someone threatening to kill your mom or dad or sister or brother… Ive fucking lived that. America’s fucked. And all because I came in contact with the wrong person randomly. I literally went to the police and they don’t care. I literally got laughed at. America is fucked to the core. You people are so pure and desensitized from holywood you think the reality of humanity is fake. It’s disgusting and pathetic. But let me guess you change your whack ass Facebook profile to support the latest cause… Piece of shit.

          Don’t think the underprivileged dont see you fake people pushing pop politics, you are seen, and you won’t be on the same team if a civil war comes along.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            You misunderstand me. You were complaining about downvotes from people who don’t share your experiences. You were also claiming that absolutely everything is terrible, here.

            Yes, you’ve had bad experiences. I don’t doubt that. But the downvotes come from those that don’t share your experiences and completely disagree that “everything is terrible.” You’re labelling absolutely everything bad based on your own personal experiences and, while I get it, is not really how things work