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George Leone's avatar

The scale of violence and displacement reported here is nothing short of horrifying. Gaza, Darfur, the Congo—civilians are being slaughtered, often children, while political maneuvering continues elsewhere. When will the world stop treating these massacres as ‘news items’ and start treating them as crimes against humanity that demand immediate accountability?

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MissAnneThrope's avatar

Twenty-seven THOUSAND people killed over THREE DAYS? That's far more than one would expect from some horrific earthquake or landslide. Have we become numb to the staggering amount of violence across the planet, and this headline is followed by numerous accounts of murderous regimes destroying life and for....WHAT, again? Maybe that worm in RFK Jr's brain is more common than we know. The banality of evil? I don't know, Hannah. Maybe there be monsters here. 💔😭

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John alder's avatar

I really I could find a island with no war, just music of all types, good food, even some goid games toplay, nobody fighting or killing

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ginny's avatar

"Co-written by 'US' and discussed with a "US Representative". Don't hand them the narrative, I am the US. I am not represented here. I want no part of this or these crimes.

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A stands for privacy's avatar

27.000 humanbeings slaughtered by terrorists and a terrorist regime in just 3 days...this world is truely based on luck. Either you had luck to be born in a priviledged country with a skintone or religion worth the life or you were unlucky ,born in the wrong country and skintone. I truely wish for the existence of heaven and hell, heaven for the ones with misfortune and hell for the kings and queens

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Fren's avatar

Notes on the Structure and Function of This Recap

1. What purpose does the recap’s structure actually serve?

A. It positions Gaza as the moral center of the world The ordering, detail allocation, and narrative weight all serve one function: to ensure every other event — even exponentially larger mass-casualty events — ultimately reinforces the centrality of Gaza. it’s a hierarchy.

The recap creates a moral frame where:

Gaza = primary global atrocity

Israel = uniquely harmful actor

The U.S. = enabling power

Everything else = atmospheric evidence that the system is corrupt. The structure isn’t journalistic; it’s architectural.

B. It keeps attention locked on the one storyline that maximizes growth

Gaza is, right now, the highest-yield topic in the progressive digital economy.

It reliably produces:

subscriber conversion

donation surges

social virality

algorithmic reinforcement. A “daily digest” allows continuous engagement without requiring new reporting. It’s a retention tool disguised as a global brief.

C. It uses global suffering to deepen the emotional weight of a single conflict

Mass atrocities elsewhere aren’t treated as subjects — they act as contrast layers.

They make the central story feel more righteous, more urgent, more coherent.

This is what political psychologists call moral coherence:

a simplified worldview that feels emotionally clean and internally aligned.

2. How does the intended audience receive this format?

A. It produces moral affirmation, not information

DropSite’s readership tends to be:

heavily emotionally invested in the Gaza narrative

skeptical of Western power structures

predisposed to seeing global injustice as interconnected

For them, the recap functions as confirmation that their worldview is correct.

B. It stabilizes identity rather than provide new knowledge

The recap gives readers the feeling of being:

morally awake

globally aware

engaged in a larger cause

The emotional effect is validation, not illumination.

C. Darfur’s mention will not provoke engagement

Because Darfur is introduced but not explored, readers will not look into it.

They’ll simply absorb it as background evidence of a broken world — a supporting argument for the primary narrative. This is deliberate.

3. Why include Darfur at all — and then give it no substantive coverage?

This is the key question.

A. Darfur acts as a moral contrast enhancer

Dropping “27,000 killed in three days” into a single sentence and moving on accomplishes two things:

It signals overwhelming global cruelty.

It implicitly elevates Gaza as the narrative centerpiece.

Darfur becomes a device, not a topic.

B. It creates emotional overload, which increases reliance on the outlet

A reader encountering a number like 27,000 deaths with zero context experiences:

shock

helplessness

moral vertigo

Those emotions push them back toward the one story they emotionally “understand”: Gaza.

It strengthens attachment to the outlet’s core narrative.

C. It provides the appearance of global scope Including Darfur allows DropSite to say:

“We’re covering the full world.” But attention allocation tells the real story.

This is a classic agenda-setting technique:

use unrelated atrocities as structural props to reinforce the primacy of your main cause.

D. Darfur is disposable; Gaza is monetizable

Gaza grows the platform. Darfur doesn’t.

So Darfur receives:

one line

maximum horror

zero follow-up

It exists only to support the emotional and political weight of the Gaza segment.

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Patricia Panitz's avatar

Why are you constantly trying to deflect from Gaza?

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Fren's avatar

My comment was about editorial choices: why a mass killing gets one sentence and disappears. That question stands on its own and doesn’t diminish anything happening in Gaza.

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S Again's avatar

Trump, his States Men, fill the shoes of Stalin, his hench men. 1932-1933 Holomodor Stalin forces from Ukraine its wheat harvest into Russia. Genocide, famine. Three years now of defending their land from the claws of the Russian bear, the ignominy of Barack Hussein Obama handing over Crimea, will be joined in Ras Putin fixation by Donald the John Trump w/the blood of Ukraine's children spreading the yeast of his pepperoni pizza. "Come and See" what you devour. Your thrill fill.

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aj's avatar

How do people survive in tunnels for months on end? In terms of food and water.

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