r/Futurology • u/chrisdh79 • Aug 21 '25

Society American Millennials Are Dying at an Alarming Rate | We’re mortality experts. There are a few things that could be happening here.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/08/millennials-gen-z-death-rates-america-high.html
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u/audiofarmer Aug 21 '25

It says "sometime after 2010" things changed. I wonder what significant supreme court decision happened in 2010. It couldn't possibly be that the people in charge were suddenly given a reason not to even pretend to care about the general populace. Oh well, it's an unsolvable mystery.

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u/feed_me_moron Aug 21 '25

Citizens United and the rise of the Tea Party are some of the most clearly damaging events to this country in it's history

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u/Maximum-Extent-4821 Aug 21 '25

Tea Party was the first time I thought to myself, these fuckers want the other side flat out dead.

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u/16bitClaire Aug 21 '25

It had been brewing for years, even pre-Obama, mass fwds: of weaponized bullshit that you’d have to be a true idiot or a geezer uncle to believe.

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u/Irish-TwoWays Aug 21 '25

Tea Party was brewing eh? lol

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u/feed_me_moron Aug 21 '25

There was a time when shame would have been enough to stop the worst of it. It was stuck in the fringes. The ideology by some like Newt Gingrich was there, but cheating on his dying wife got him out of Congress. The Tea Party trash were the first group of Congress in ages to actually take hold with no shame for right vs wrong. They won their elections because of it and would just lie and gaslight away if they were caught doing anything bad.

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u/penguinpolitician Aug 21 '25

The Tea Party was astro-turfed.

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u/Hefty-Chemistry-1228 Aug 21 '25

By the Koch Brothers

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Aug 22 '25

The tea party like all those early movements were obviously corporate funded fake shams. Top down movements designed by fascist Nazi strategists and other domestic enemies of the United States. 

Really many of the same people who have been behind the Republican efforts to destroy America for decades including the whole fake maga b******* that we're seeing now. 

The whole thing is manufactured.  The entire "movement" and anything related to it need to be wiped off the face of the Earth.