Comment by lazide

I definitely notice and care how serious it is. Knowing what is going on, frankly Canada should be doing conscriptions and switching to a wartime economy. Hope is your enemy with someone like Trump.

But ‘that doesn’t make sense’ (except, if we don’t ignore the obvious truth, it definitely does), so we’re all going to pretend it’s just Sabre rattling and rage baiting. Because no one wants to take the hit for something that ‘should never happen’.

Which it kind of is, but isn’t really. It’s infuriating, as is the inaction, but that’s why it works/happens.

And part of why it works/happens is the escalating ridiculousness for the last 5-10 years overall in the media when it comes to hitting outrage buttons.

For instance, on the mass shooting side, depending on how you count, there were between 103-706 killed in ‘mass shootings’ in the US in 2021 [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shooting], out of a country of 350 million. 103 per the FBI, 706 per some action group I can’t remember.

You’re roughly as likely to die of a lightning strike (or more likely to die from lightning), as be involved in a mass shooting. Yet, it gets endless airtime - which the media admits even just makes the problem worse. [https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2016/08/media-contag...]

And endless goal post shifting of even what the definition is, so that the problem grows and grows.

Meanwhile, we ignore actual problems.