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[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We live in the stupidest fucking timeline omfg

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We never really went past the 'Mortal Combat makes your children violent' rhetoric of the 80's and 90's

[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I was more commenting on the newspaper going to print with the obvious amogus joke but yes that too

The thing about this case is that it's going to be particularly resistant to any kind of spin because it'd be one thing if he shot up a school but 1) it looks like he himself was a victim of the medical insurance industry like so many others and 2) he got his target and there was no collateral damage (thankfully), so he's already become a sympathetic folk hero in the eyes of the public. Real society moment