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Something Is Very Wrong Online. Our political conversations take place in the very same spaces that incubate and perpetuate unthinkable violence.
The cycle of violence will continue as long as the medium doesn’t change.
According to Utah’s governor, the fired bullet casing found on the scene had been inscribed with the phrase “Notices bulges OwO whats this?”—a niche online reference to flirting within the furry community that is now mostly just used trollishly. Just last week, I wrote about the mass shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis; the shooter there was also extremely online and apparently affiliated with a number of groups that defy normal political ideologies. There are many overlapping problems at work here: a gun-violence and firearm epidemic; worsening political polarization; social and cultural issues such as loneliness, alienation, and a growing distrust of elites; and disdain for one’s fellow citizens.
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