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Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane (bloomberg.com)
Deena Shanker, writing for Bloomberg: If you pull out your phone to check Twitter while waiting for the light to change, or read e-mails while brushing your teeth, you might be what the American Psychological Association calls a "constant checker." And chances are, it's hurting your mental health. Last week, the APA released a study finding that Americans were experiencing the first statistically significant stress increase in the survey's 10-year history. In January, 57 percent of respondents of all political stripes said the U.S. political climate was a very or somewhat significant source of stress, up from 52 percent who said the same thing in August. On Thursday, the APA released the second part of its 1 findings, "Stress In America: Coping With Change," examining the role technology and social media play in American stress levels. [...] The highest stress levels, it should be noted, are reserved for those who constantly check their work e-mail on days off. Their average stress level is 6.0. So those of you who think it's somehow pleasant to work from home on a Saturday afternoon, you're actually fooling yourself.
This is 45's and peoples like him, standard operating procedure. Exhaust you, damage your mental health, make you stop fighting them. It is important to rest and take care of yourself so that you can RESIST and PERSIST!
This.
Right now is not a good time to try and correlate American stress levels and mental health to any other trend than that goddam mother fucking yellow bellied blue balled orange bastard.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
No. Fuck off with the moral relativism strawman argument, you disingenuous piece of shit.
No, YOU fuck off with your double standards, you brainless waste of protoplasm.
You're now getting payback for every damn time one of you progtards called a Republican a "Nazi" or "Raaaacist!!!!" just because they didn't agree with your intersectional race-baiting victimhood-competition virtue-signalling I-care-more-than-you we-call-ourselves-"tolerant"-while-we-call-others-Nazis-over-policy-differences SHELTERED, CLOSE-MINDED, ARROGANT, INTOLERANT BULLSHIT.
Why don't you go fucking have a riot for losing an election that your own damn worthless lying sack-of-shit corruptocrat of a candidate told you it would be improper to not respect the results of? Until she fucking lost and you losers had to cast about for blame and finally agreed with Ronald Reagan's assessment of Russia an an evil empire - despite the fact that the only thing Russia MAY have done is to do the job the fucking media abdicated and point a shining light on the corruption inside the Democratic Party.
Maybe you're going to fucking "resist" with violence? All you gun-grabbing twits are going to resist against those of us who actually believe in and take advantage of our 2nd Amendment rights to bear arms? You want to threaten violence? Come and get ventilated, dipshit. That's how we make the green grass grow.
California will secede from the US? Go right ahead - then the parts of California that voted for Trump - the parts that supply the food, water, electricity, and gas - will secede from the independent California and rejoin the US - or better yet, the remaining US sends in the Army and fucking takes those parts because that's the way the world really works you useless asshole, thus leaving the independent country of California with the Bay Area, Sacremento, Los Angeles, and San Diego. And no water, food, electricity, or gas. But they'd siphon off what? 30-40 million Democrat voters? Who can then turn their independent California into a larger version of Greece - or Venezuela without the oil reserves. Good fucking riddance to those boat anchors. Maybe Mexico would want them back? Go for it.
Seriously - FUCK YOU! you anencephalic howler monkey.
You're too stupid to even know you're a dumbass.