2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in politically motivated killings, governor says (cbc.ca) 102 points by awnird 88 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments

Interesting to see the 100x(!) attention that this gets on HN, likely representative of similar media reach on more mainstream channels, when it's not even lawmakers in this case.

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jameslk 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

You posted about this a few times already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208072

The comparison with the Minnesota lawmaker murders submission sounds political and you seem to care about this aspect a lot to mention it 3 times

If you’re genuinely curious why this event is likely getting so much attention, I’d wager it has less to do with politics than it has with the fact that this occurred in front of thousands of people, mainly young students, and was recorded by many on their phones. It was also being broadcast I believe. Multiple angles of a very graphic video of a person getting murdered are all over the internet

It’s terrible when innocent people are murdered. In this case, many people watched it happen too

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antifa 5 days ago | parent [-]

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jameslk 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

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shdh 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

One quick Google search: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1146827139489...

One was a political figure for the current regime, the other was a largely unknown lawmaker.

Both murders are wrong, but this is being framed in a silly way by you.

	▲	rabid-zubat 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Did you really expect anything not silly by a guy nicknamed like that?

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like_any_other 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Those are not the only recent political killings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45203644

> not even lawmakers

But he was more famous than those lawmakers.