• Miles O'Brien
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    10319 days ago

    … And?

    Why do we give a shit?

    Why is this newsworthy?

    Are we going to hear about his time working in retail soon? I’m sure it will provide deep insight to find out which store he worked at for 3 months, 8 years ago. clearly that’s relevant information.

    • @[email protected]
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      2419 days ago

      Because it’s a opportunity to trot out the low hanging fruit of ‘Videos games promote violence’, providing a convenient target to point the finger at.

    • @[email protected]
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      1819 days ago

      I don’t want to be conspiratorial but this helps stop the class awakening all of this was helping bring about. The more we know about him, the more people will identify or not identify with him and then we’re back to culture war being the conversation instead of class war.

    • @[email protected]
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      1018 days ago

      Because they are going to milk every click they can, except anything that scares the billionaire overlords