Threats against hurricane emergency workers out of control on social media

If it hasn’t happened already. In between threats to aid workers, and the creation of paranoia around receiving aid, there’s a lot of different ways for people to die here. (And aid workers get it both ways - they’re not doing enough, but anything they do is also suspect.)

We’re at the point where conservatives fully inhabit different realities from the rest of us. (And even from each other, on some issues.) That won’t go away after this election, no matter who wins, unfortunately. The new (social) media environment, the hyper-partisan, right-wing disinformation “news outlets” will just make it all worse going forward.

We’re going to need some government intervention to fix things, but when almost half the population exists in a different reality, Republican participation in that process promises to just make things worse.

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