Today I’m introducing a groundbreaking bill - the National Strategy for Social Connection Act.

It creates a federal office to combat the growing epidemic of American loneliness, develops anti-loneliness strategies, and fosters best practices to promote social connection.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1681350024200962053

    • nekat_emanresu@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I completely agree, but this type of response to it is snake oil. Many anti-capitalists view our social alienation as a required part to keep capitalism functioning, and any superficial attempt to fix it such as this post shows, is just to make it look like they are trying to fix it. See regulatory bodies allowing … everything bad.

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      1 year ago

      Gangs, neo nazis, even flat earth groups survive because lonely people can find a sense of community in them.

      Which is why conservatives are preemptively shrieking about this. They don’t want recruitment to go down.