You didn't actually say anything in retort. Merely saying ditto, or saying that something is supposedly a straw-man, isn't a supported position, it's the lack o

You didn't actually say anything in retort. Merely saying ditto, or saying that something is supposedly a straw-man, isn't a supported position, it's the lack of supporting your position/claims. It's particularly obvious "suicide" is meant as a figure of speech, although frankly it's not too far from the truth, given what deindustrialization (loss of very large numbers of manufacturing jobs) did to large swaths of the US. It did in fact cause large increases in suicide numbers, along with a horror show of other consequences / fallout. I doubt anybody is confused over the dire consequences of what happened across the US as manufacturing jobs got wiped out.