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James Woods Sparks Debate With Cryptic Tweet After Las Vegas Shooting

Veteran actor and proud conservative James Woods for one, has contributed to garbling the already much thought about position in the...

X/@RealJamesWoods Veteran actor and proud conservative James Woods for one, has contributed to garbling the already much thought about position in the unclear skies of the internet by tweeting mysteriously about the recent Las Vegas shooting that left two dead. Also of particular interest were the historical insinuations put forward by other commenters, with statements like “Never woulda happened in the days when the mob controlled Vegas,” which imply that organized crime kept the city better in check than today’s system. The true meaning behind Woods’ tweet may never have been known, yet what did become clear in the reaction was the current state of online discourse-what passes for diplomacy with a lot of drama laid on top competing with sore opinions, and sometimes even become a matter of life and death on social media-too quick to become politicized after the tragedy.

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