I don't even get how any editor lives down something like this. Giving green light on publish here is such an incredibly incompetent move
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2025
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MAGA are such idiots
Wow! Ammunition manufacturers have recognized the growing market for trans mass shooters and are releasing a new line, called TransAmmo!©
That's smart marketing.
He says that as if it's not extremely common these days for preliminary, unconfirmed information to spread like wildfire, among everyone. The half-life of news in the public consciousness has grown so short that it's common for public attention to event X to have basically already dwindled to nothing, by the time all of the confirmation/debunking has happened.
Hell, I still encounter people, once in a while, who think Kyle Rittenhouse targeted and shot black people, all these years later, which was one of the very first things claimed about the Kenosha shooting after it happened, and was officially debunked almost immediately.
They haven't developed to the level of understanding and experiencing shame.
It amuses me how much misinformation is on lemmy, which is what this site's members espouse to be against.