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Breaking news alerts would be sent to phones around the world. "Bombing at New York theater ... Multiple casualties ... DEVELOPING." The Survivalists out in the Dakotas start loading up their weapons with ammo and standing watch on their properties for looters. Twitter is going nuts. Total lockdown at all public buildings in the Northeast US. Etc etc.

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Uh like none of this happened when the dumpster bombs went off in Chelsea last year. They closed the streets for the investigation and to look for more bombs but it wasn't even close to a "lockdown of all public buildings", I'm pretty sure they just halted traffic. You could even - yes- walk around the area where the bomb went off the next day. It was a block from my office.

A dumpster is one thing. A theater seat cushion is something else.

I agree that we're a bunch of nervous Nellies these days, quivering in thrall to an overgrown police-military-industrial complex. But I'd probably draw the line at continuing to show the movie after a bomb goes off in the theater, as described in the article.

I really don't know where this class of triggered ppl get their energy though... to do it day in day out. They seem to be waiting for the next trigger like addicts or something.

It's the addiction of the victim mentality. It's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_abuse

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