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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 1 Dec \ on: Black Friday in Heartless Country alter_native

Hey this is a great article but I don't think your quote did it justice. Here, imo, is the money quote

We may not have the gumption of the “Greatest Generation,” but we’ve outdone them in terms of heartlessness. Lack of empathy and compassion. What happened to Walter Vance in Target could never have happened in a truly civilized country. One where the population still felt empathy for others. One where a dead body in the aisle of a store would cause some to faint, and raise the heartbeats of everyone. One where other shoppers would have instinctively stopped looking for illusory “deals,” and tried to help another human being.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 1 Dec

OK, I thought it was probably the money quote, too. However, if I put the money quotes in the discussion area, will people skip reading the articles? I don’t know, but if I got the money quote handed to me as a spoiler, I don’t know if I would read the rest of the great article. I don’t know if I am clear on that point or not, but it looks like snitching the good parts if I do that.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 1 Dec

Might be interesting to ~AskSN what people think about this issue. Personally, I'd prefer to see the most impactful quote because it helps me decide whether it's worth clicking through to the article or not, and even if I don't click through I'll have gotten the most important part of the message.

Edit: Oof, just saw that ~AskSN has been archived. Maybe ~meta would be an appropriate place to ask.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 1 Dec

I’ll keep that in mind for later today.