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LAS14

(13,783 posts)
Sat Nov 26, 2022, 03:27 PM Nov 2022

The fragmentation of our common perceptions is worse than I thought.

At Thanksgiving dinner (6 adults), all progressives, I mentioned the multiple mass shootings in the week leading up to Thanksgiving, and most hadn't heard about them. I asked one where she got her news and she said the NYT, but she probably only saw the main running stories.

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The fragmentation of our common perceptions is worse than I thought. (Original Post) LAS14 Nov 2022 OP
It was a busy week. maxsolomon Nov 2022 #1
Busy? Hermit-The-Prog Nov 2022 #2
I'd like to suggest that details of new mass shooting events Hortensis Nov 2022 #3

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. I'd like to suggest that details of new mass shooting events
Sat Nov 26, 2022, 07:31 PM
Nov 2022

aren't the most significant news we shouldn't miss. Harsh, but true. It's enough to know the traitors' plan to use civil unrest to encourage American to accept a coup d'etat is proceeding. But equally important to divide the total dead every now and then into 330 million to get critical perspective news coverage tends to obscure.

It took a lot of bad electoral choices to bring us to this point. If only all those grieving for our dead had been among those who voted responsibly over the past 3 decades. It should be so different.

Fwiw, these days the word "progressives" is claimed and applied to such different sorts that I don't know what's meant by it. I'm a progressive liberal Democrat, along with almost all of the 81,000,000 progressive Americans who voted for progressive liberal Democrat Biden and the Democratic Party's very progressive platform. Hope you had a houseful.

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