Ryan Broderick — Garbage Day

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Writer Jason Pargin made a really good TikTok this week about this bizarre side effect of social media-driven news. Pargin, focusing on the 2020 Nashville bombing, which everyone did basically forget about, argues that because the motives of that attack were never clearly linked to a “team” — the bomber was mainly interested in shape-shifting lizard people — the story didn’t have much of a tail online.

Why does it feel like people are underwhelmed by the assassination attempt on a former U.S. President? I feel that this should be a much bigger issue than what it appears to be for most people, because for someone to be able to get that close to an important political figure is a dangerous weakness for the executive branch of the United States’ government. Have we always been this numb to violence, or is this something new?