Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“We start with a tragedy, some pissed-off lonely kid puts down his smartphone and picks up a gun, somebody gets shot, sometimes a politician, sometimes some other species of media personality, but usually it ends up just being a room full of other lonely kids with smartphones. After a lot of frantic finger pointing by the media personalities left standing, it usually becomes clear that the shooter wasn’t actually directly concerned with any of their silly partisan squabbles …. While it is painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain still attached to a functioning conscience that both sides of this country’s manufactured tribal divide are exploiting these tragedies just to score points and rile up their captive constituencies, the notion that the solution to American nihilism is bringing all these jackals together for another war-on-something is even worse.” (10/04/25)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/10/washington-is-to-blame-for-its-own.html