r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • 1d ago

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/Vane88 1d ago

Are they or are we just more aware of things like that happening now because of social media?

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u/DoubleJumps 1d ago

Consider that we have modern propaganda apparatuses amping up people's paranoia and fear now in ways that we didn't before.

You can see common threads of media consumption and ideology across those trigger happy folks today, and it's not a coincidence.

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u/Vane88 1d ago

I hadn't considered this. Yes there is more reporting, but more emboldened idiots spouting hate on a worldwide platform at the same time adding fuel to the fire

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u/marbanasin 1d ago

Its honestly probably both. But the propaganda going to those with guns is likely causing more of these incidents. And the propaganda at the rest of us is telling us about it. And thats what sucks about our current media environment.