” I personally think this is just often repeated and regurgitated nonsense.”
Not hardly. Pot smoking is another. Pot porn and video games. I have friends and relatives with boys like these. They are at their wits end.
It is way more common than you think.
You knowing someone doing this is not evidence it's happening on a massive scale. I don't know anyone like that so put the two together and it's a wash. further, Hawley was talking about adults not adolescent teens.
Stocks of some of the largest online video game producers are guiding down and the price has fallen pretty dramatically. Does not jive with men sitting home playing video games on a massive scale.
American is declining rapidly but it has little to do with online gaming and porn. Hawley should be talking about the trillion dollar infrastructure bill his party just voted into existence. He is trying to deflect and it isn't working.