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concerned stranger performs media critique while describing war prep
Someone observed that news coverage of military escalation feels dramatic and then nervously pivots to confirming the dramatic thing is actually happening. It's the rhetorical equivalent of gasping at a movie trailer, then admitting the movie is real. The whole thing reads like a Twitter thread written by someone who just discovered the concept of tone-setting in journalism and needed to share their mild existential discomfort about it.