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I think social media is worse for society than tobacco. Tobacco shortens peoples lives, social media is destroying society. We'd ultimately be better living har

• casey2 3y ago
  Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US post social media: 0 Number of civil wars and mass upheaval in the US pre- social media: 1 I'll take social media and quit cigarettes.
  • gtvwill 3y ago
    Lol if you take the number of annual gun deaths in the US each year, you arguably are still in a civil war. 40000+ of your own killed each year just from guns alone. You kill more of yourselves each year than was lost in the entire gulf War of 1990 to 91.
    • lotsoweiners 3y ago
      But a majority of those gun deaths are suicides not murders: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/#:~:text=Though%20they%20tend%20to%20get,)%2C%20according%20to%20the%20CDC https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-....
  • MrYellowP 3y ago
    You make no sense. You know that. How many years are covered by "pre social media" and how many by "post social media" ? The difference is significant.