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by jasonvorhe 2655 days ago
> Someone shot 50 people, left a detailed explanation, and no one can find out why. Was he anti-immigrant, anti-semetic, disaffected of government...no one knows.

Seriously? No one can find out why?

What about all those journalists reporting about his motives, reciting his meme-infected nonsensical manifesto? How do these people know about his white supremacist views and his hate for Muslims?

Are they all making that up as part of a big cover-up?

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> reciting his meme-infected nonsensical manifesto

I've seen sparse, five-word excerpts, picked and distilled by someone that presumably read the full text.

> nonsensical

Undoubtedly it is; that's never stopped nonsense from being available before. Hell, you can buy hard copies of Mein Kampf with 2-day shipping from Amazon.

There is a tremendous Streisand effect being created around this, and I cannot figure out why.