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    This is very sad, and preventable.

    Reading the article it sounds like this woman unfortunately just spent too much time on social media reading all the doom and gloom of the media and people amplifying it in places like reddit, Twitter and Facebook.

    wanted to live in a land disconnected from the world, which she viewed as chaotic and dangerous

    she and her teenage son could be happy and safe away from the news, the viruses, the politics of modern-day America

    had been “discouraged with the state of the world”

    Rebecca Vance’s fears intensified during the pandemic

    Consuming too much of this crap has really affected peoples mental health, from Trump, to BLM riots, racism, covid, it’s broken some people who spend too much time on social media.

    So much so that they think the only way out is to hide away from society.

    Reminder, friends, to take frequent and extensive breaks from social media for your own mental health.

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      The teenager — whom Jara described as a smart and caring son who had been a “mama’s boy” and had been home-schooled

      The only food found at their shelter was a single package of ramen

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      Please, I knew people who were exactly the same back in the 90s, there are always people who go down the paranoia rabbit hole and don’t come back out.

      Lot of them were praying for the collapse because that’s when God would raise them above the wicked heathens and sodomites because they’re secretly special but everyone else is too evil to admit it.

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        The article said the poor kid was homeschooled, which is often a hallmark of religious fundamentalism. Not trusting the world and thinking it’s out to get you is also a hallmark of fundamentalism - but also of mental illness.

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          She’s from Colorado Springs (massive conservative area) and she became concerned about the world and wanted to live off the grid in 2022 (when Trump lost). The writer of this article sure does beat around the bush and struggles not to say whether she was a right wing nut.

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      The BLM “riots” were 99% protests where the only violence was on the part of the cops harassing protesters.

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        100%. Some people exploited the riots to break into stores but they were the significant minority, and additionally some were outed as bad actors who actually didn’t support the movement.

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      You can’t lump in blm riots in there, those were protests stoked to violence by police officers, so what you should be saying it’s, corrupt police forces resulting in blm protests

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        Maybe I’m being too generous, but I was reading it as this person consumed too much media, including lies and exaggerations, and it warped their world view. I guess I read it as a topic like and not calling them riots themselves. Kinda like the “race riot” in Tusla, but idk.

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        Man gotta love when those protesters storm the local grocery store to fight social injustice. BLM!

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      Not reading Twitter has a tangible impact on my anxiety. You can feel it rise when I used it, fell away when I stopped.

      I haven’t used Facebook in almost 2 years now and it’s so nice

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      And remember that despite some unique large scale issues we have today, there were much, MUCH worse times to be alive. “Majority of Americans live a peaceful life and die at 70-80” is not reportable news but still largely true.

      Things are far from perfect, there are major issues, but I’d choose to live today than almost the entirety of human existence previously.

      There were definitely way more violent times in the US: there were pandemics, there were revolts, there were wars. We live in an amazing time but it takes a bit of grand perspective to realize that all the bad news is easy to see in a matter of minutes. You can have death and destruction delivered right into your home in a matter of milliseconds. It’s much much harder to see all the wonderful things happening in the world

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      she and her teenage son could be happy and safe away from the news, the viruses, the politics of modern-day America

      Just close the apps. That’s literally all it takes to avoid like 90% of the crap that she’s talking about. But the viruses… did she think those don’t make it to the forest or something?