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jballs@sh.itjust.works to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

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jballs@sh.itjust.works to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 2 years ago
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LEWISTON, ME—In the hours following a violent rampage in Maine in which a lone attacker killed at least 16 individuals and injured numerous others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from …
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    I hope the writer for this article makes residuals. They’re getting a lot of use out of it

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      They do actually rewrite it slightly each time they repost it, even though the title is the same

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        They just change the date, city, number of victims, and then change the fake person’s name for the quote. The rest stays exactly the same.

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          Yes, that’s how all news sites do it now

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            But in this case it’s part of the point of the repeating article that the article is nearly identical every time

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          What? This whole time I thought it was always the same article shared over and over when there’s another shooting, I mean the original one from years ago. That’s somehow sadder…

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      It would be darkly funny if they had an “____ Days Since We Had to Repost This” counter for it.

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        It will be stuck at 0

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          It would, no exaggeration. There are 1 or more mass shootings every day in the US.

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