Some people fantasize about winning the lottery. Others daydream about quitting their job and moving to a cabin in the woods. Conservative Twitter personalities, however, are busy praying to the algorithm for the day a trans person commits a mass shooting in the “perfect” setting: a Catholic school, during Mass, in front of Fox News cameras. In what they describe as “the Super Bowl of culture war talking points,” pundits imagine logging on to their feeds and finally getting the content they crave. “Do you know how many retweets I could farm from that?” one anonymous influencer was overheard saying, eyes glazed, hands trembling over the caps-lock key. “I’d finally be verified again!” Experts note that fewer than one-tenth of one percent of mass shooters are transgender, but such pesky math doesn’t fit the dream. In this imagined scenario, Twitter conservatives get everything they’ve ever wanted: a headline tailor-made to fuel 72 consecutive hours of rage-tweeting, Fox News segments, and...
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