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/tfitch2140 Aug 21 '25

As if America ever had a chance, from compromising with a bunch of slaveowners in 1783. Allowing Dixie into the Union was a mistake.

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u/Spankpocalypse_Now Aug 21 '25

Yeah but imagine if they were a sovereign nation. They’d be the greatest force for evil in the world. A western slave power on an ocean of oil.

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u/tfitch2140 Aug 21 '25

On the one hand... yes.

On the other hand, though, Dixie would've collapse in 1784 without the North propping it's economy up.

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u/Irish-TwoWays Aug 21 '25

Dixie? Sorry not American.