Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]

Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by drewcon on Thursday May 05, 2022 @11:41AM (#31274790)

“Boomers” I suppose are responsible for passing the clean air and clean water act which had the effect of essentially ending pollution as we know it in the US.

They also essentially created the welfare state…

They were and are pretty bad on effective drug policy.

LGB discourse went off the rails when progressives added all the other letters. To be fair, it’s not just boomers who are deeply concerned with the political religion of queerness.

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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by naravara on Thursday May 05, 2022 @11:52AM (#31274935)

> They also essentially created the welfare state…

Nah the Silent Generation did that.

But also most of our political gerontocrats are also either Silents or very early Boomers. They're not really the core of the Baby Boom generation.

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Re:Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a ma... by standardUser on Thursday May 05, 2022 @02:05PM (#31276645)

You forgot a couple letters, each of which represents actual human beings who have historically been denied fundamental rights and have been subject to violence, including state violence.

Also, your understanding of the origin of the welfare state is way off the mark. Sometimes, the best thing a person can do is spend a little time studying basic history.

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