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The Vance Boelter story left the news cycle quickly because it's not 1963 anymore and nobody gives a shit about dead politicians, they caught the guy relatively quickly, and it happened right before the Israel-Iran shit kicked off. The Idaho shooting left the news cycle as quick as it did because "retard with a gun" doesn't generate as many clicks as it used to, and because pretty much everyone unanimously agreed that ambushing & shooting firefighters is a profoundly degenerate thing to do. Not everything is a fucking glow-op to MaNUfAcTUrE CoNsENt for the American Fourth Reich.
If I sound a bit MATI right now it's because I kinda am. I remember a while back ITT there was a brief mention of /r/redscarepod and how it was one of the few left-leaning subs that wasn't completely insufferable, and that was true for a while, but ever since the election it's been astroturfed HARD by pearl-clutching shitlibs. The same people who were making fun of Dementia Joe 8 months ago are now unironically nostalgiaposting about his presidency. Other than not every post there being political, it's indistinguishable from /r/politics at this point. Guess I just feel a bit foolish for ever thinking there may be a few redditors left that aren't terminally online propaganda sponges.