LSCanaan
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It's complicated
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There's a phenomenon that explains this kind of illusion as a psychological effect, called the Baader-Meinhof complex. Coincidentally later that night we mentioned it too. It's basically a trick our brains play on us partly explained by the psychological processing of information, selective attention and confirmation bias.
Or maybe Facebook is spying on me, on you, and Hacker News too.
People who grow up in a state of constant war become desensitized to it but you're going to have a problem with their behavior and tendencies once you have them try to adapt to what amounts to a normal life to you.
It's the rhetoric that's been put forth in this election to pander to the lowest common denominator, whether we like it or not.