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US suicides hit an all-time high (apnews.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Neon_Dystopia@lemm.ee to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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The state of mental health in the US is hitting a tipping point.

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[–] COMHASH@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Still I am not able to understand how can Americans be okay with giving $100 billion to ukraine and MIC. It's a sick society, working class people are in misery and top layers are full of deranged warmongering zealots

[–] DesiDebugger@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Meaning those who run said society see it as going all to plan.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The war machine has grown so huge and corrupt that the entire value they extract from the rest of the world goes directly to the military so they can keep operating. At some point it has to collapse on itself.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 2 years ago

It's more like they're so comically unaccountable that they can just demand whatever amount of money they want no matter if it'll be used for military spending. The Pentagon can't account for most of its assets, literally trillions worth of stuff, and I imagine it's the same story for the rest of the MIC.