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Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

  I’m not sure how accurate that really is anymore.

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  • negativenull@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If Ulvade and/or SandyHook didn’t change anything, nothing else will. :/

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What’s astounding to me is any of us old enough to remember 9/11 remember the phrase “9/11 changed everything.” But school after school has massacres of children and it changes nothing.

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      • negativenull@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I remember it well. 9/11 did change lots of things (not for the better either), but it did galvanize the nation. Now my son has to have active-shooter drills in school and we have to act like it’s normal. I guess that is new/changed.

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      • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, you don’t want the kind of change that 9/11 brought.

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      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The difference is that 9/11 was able to be channeled into xenophobia. The same can’t really happen with school shootings. The 40k mindset of hate being a valuable and limited resource hits way too close to home.

        And it’s all a tragedy.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      COVID should have done something. It was a world wide issue.

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      • Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Politically, it did do something. It was a useful wedge issue for republican politiicans to take advantage of, at the cost of people’s lives.

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• CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  particularly the part about how it takes a huge tragedy for the population to realize that maybe we should make society nice for other people.

  I wish that was how it worked! Society would have been so much nicer by now.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah there’s there tragic undertone to the whole thing as well. It showed the underclass actually standing up for themselves rather than fighting to keep inequality in place.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is how society works.

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