• Strangle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is very sad, and preventable.

    Reading the article it sounds like this woman unfortunately just spent too much time on social media reading all the doom and gloom of the media and people amplifying it in places like reddit, Twitter and Facebook.

    wanted to live in a land disconnected from the world, which she viewed as chaotic and dangerous

    she and her teenage son could be happy and safe away from the news, the viruses, the politics of modern-day America

    had been “discouraged with the state of the world”

    Rebecca Vance’s fears intensified during the pandemic

    Consuming too much of this crap has really affected peoples mental health, from Trump, to BLM riots, racism, covid, it’s broken some people who spend too much time on social media.

    So much so that they think the only way out is to hide away from society.

    Reminder, friends, to take frequent and extensive breaks from social media for your own mental health.

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      1 year ago

      The BLM “riots” were 99% protests where the only violence was on the part of the cops harassing protesters.

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      1 year ago

      You can’t lump in blm riots in there, those were protests stoked to violence by police officers, so what you should be saying it’s, corrupt police forces resulting in blm protests

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        1 year ago

        Man gotta love when those protesters storm the local grocery store to fight social injustice. BLM!