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US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings
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#32Obviously what this country needs is even more guns! The more guns a country has the safer it is!
/s
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#33I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
Watching city sub-reddits devolve over the years has me feeling the same way. It seems coordinated.
I think it is often coordinated but I doubt all of it is “outside influence.” It doesn’t take many extreme nazi/far right folk to make a dent and they can easily coordinate a small group to trash a subreddit to be more effective.
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Depends where you are if doing so represents an upgrade in safety, I live here and really want to get out, not so much due to shootings but general political corruption.
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#35Why do posts like this get flagged? Are Americans not allowed to talk about their violent culture on HN?
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#36I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
They don't need to be "outside" influences. We're totally capable of radicalizing ourselves domestically.
It's both. Russian troll farms work by amplifying internal destabilizing factors.
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#37I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
Late stage capitalism....divide the country through politics so nothing can get done and remove any nuance from discussions
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#38I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
100% I'm surprised this isn't more obvious to others. The media certainly isn't helping the situation either.
Please be more specific when you talk about "the media", the most abused term in American culture.
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#39I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
The oligarchs want us to fight each other, rather than fight them. Divide and conquer has never failed them. Push the culture wars to distract from the class war.
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#40I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.
I think there are probably outside influences involved. But also, we've already had a civil war that predates the internet by a long shot, and I don't think we necessarily need outside influence for this to be an outcome given a lot of the incentives for radicalized viewpoints.
With such a large, expansive, and diverse population we are a country with many nations inside it. There has certainly been a long history of different viewpoints in different areas, dating back to the decades long debates over the creation of the constitution and bill of rights.