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[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 72 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mass shootings in the US get way less coverage in China because it gets to a point where people start dismissing it as propaganda. Big ones make the news for a while, but most of them get touched on briefly and the news moves on.

Like, surely, after your 3rd mass shooting in a decade, the government would step in and do something about it, right?

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"We've had 15 mass shootings in 2025 so far"

"You mean in the 2020's, right?"

"Nope"

[–] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 22 points 1 day ago

Time taken for 15 most recent mass shootings in Australia: 20 years

Time taken for 15 most recent mass shootings in USA: 14 days

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like, surely, after your 3rd mass shooting in a decade, the government would step in and do something about it, right

One would think! thonk-cri

3rd mass shooting in a ~~decade~~ day

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

I'm like 50:50 as to whether news out of China specifically just short-circuits a populaces brain that cannot even imagine anymore that the people like a government. I mean you look at like global north numbers and it peaks at, what, 30% or so? Removed from everything else I get the feeling the idea that you could like a government has died