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If people aren’t panicked, they wouldn’t elect panic-pandering politicians, so there must always be a panic — crime, drugs, commies, libruls, etc.

  • DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Probably just fireworks, my neighbors constantly shoot them off for any reason on any day that ends with “y”, people who don’t know what gunshots sound like often confuse the two.

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      11 months ago

      Fireworks, cars backfiring, and construction noises. I lived in a nice part of Oakland for years and Nextdoor was full of people terrified of these spectres