@schwarz: Walter Kirn is a good example of how social media has separated many people who were once normal from reality to the de…
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This tweet critiques how social media can separate individuals from reality, citing Walter Kirn's past prediction about Luigi Mangione as an example of this distortion.
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Walter Kirn is a good example of how social media has separated many people who were once normal from reality to the degree that they are functionally insane. Last year he was saying that Luigi Mangione would “go free and become a political figure”: https://t.co/eMTWQ3uGqQ
Walter Kirn (@walterkirn): I told you all almost since the beginning that Luigi will go free and become a political figure.
Was called insane at the time.
But step by step it moves along.
The news is a play.
Get it yet?
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