• MacN'Cheezus
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      1 day ago

      It’s all manufactured outrage if you ask me. They want you to get mad and stay mad so they can tell you who to hate and what to do about it instead of doing something productive with your life.

      Without social media and the Internet, none of us would have ever heard about this incident (or others like it), unless it happened to someone we actually know, and our lives would have likely been better for it. Definitely more peaceful.

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          15 hours ago

          Because there aren’t two sides to calling a child a slur. It’s verge straightforwardly wrong every single time.

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            15 hours ago

            I don’t really recall anything about two sides. I saw an additional complaint that the new left out context, like they always do, in order to get more clicks.

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        20 hours ago

        You hit the nail on the head. A polarized populace is easier to extract money from. The proof is in how much money poor trump supporters are willing to give to a “billionaire”. There is a whole economy around a polarized populace. News, poloticians, “influencers”, and various businesses like truth social that caters only to a polorized populace. In the end, this is all about money. As it always is.