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Woah, someone posted the outside picture above, and it was so perfect that I figured it was photoshopped. Now I'm not sure after seeing your picture.
Might’ve been fireworks, that killed the driver (meh source linked)
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Can we not just have regular crime or accidents anymore? Must everything be terrorism? That singular label is how the government is circumventing the constitution.
The loss of meaning feels like a real problem. It feels like the last ten years has had a lot of rapid turnover with our post-truth world.
People want to use extreme language to describe extreme events, make people emotional. But when every event is labeled that way, it loses meaning, even if it is true:
We have had actual racism, actual genocide, actual antisemitism. But if every event becomes these things, what do the words even mean?