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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

Millions of us bat eyes at casual death. Don't pretend we haven't been talking about this kind of tragedy for years.

(It's a classic deflection tactic. Pretend public awareness didn't exist to justify past failure to act, ostensibly pretending future action is soon to follow.)