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1 day agoBrendan O'Connor: To the US right, school shootings mean nothing, but the shot that killed Charlie Kirk means everything
First the piece of content, then everyone hops on, makes it about them and puts their own meaning on it, and then all the players double down into another culture war, more content, clippable, meme-able, performative. Every now and then people remember that a tragedy has happened, and there's a bit of performative decorum. And then more content arrives in, and dopamine zings.
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