{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Not confident enough to predict but hoping the Udvale shooting serves as backslope equivalent to when people started to scoff at...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/685310701375553537/", "html": "<p>Not confident enough to predict but hoping the Udvale shooting serves as backslope equivalent to when people started to scoff at &ldquo;edginess&rdquo;</p><p>Which had been a <i>genuine accomplishment</i>, could trace itself back to the &lsquo;68 vibe shift, that our generation <i>wouldn&rsquo;t</i> get weepy and maudlin and malleable over corpsemeat, and instead would regularly probe for individuals so failed and eject them!</p><p>It was a <i>vile</i> betrayal of potential that that was checked but this is another chance, if ~caring~ about the weak and vulnerable in a world where they&rsquo;re at the mercy of others brings on pain you dislike, <b>maybe don&rsquo;t do that</b></p><p>I am on record with my parents that if, upon being killed by another, they could not bring themselves to transfer any positive feelings from me (who would no longer <i>exist</i>) to my victor who claimed my inheritance, they would only prove the feelings never arose from an evaluation of my value worthy of respect and instead represented a creepy and unrespectable fixation</p>"}