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The reason I pushed back is because I kind of was going for something where we don't make excuses for why they're doing it. Especially if it's just making an educated guess. What would that accomplish?
The point isn't to justify their mask wearing. The point is for us to push questions, just like conspiracy theorists do. That's what forces answers from our representatives. If we stop the questions every time by giving an answer there's no momentum. Every person on the left needs to get better at driving pressure to the right places. We saw this with masks during COVID to the point that people thought they would die from wearing an n95 mask. Is it stupid? Yea. Did it work to drive public opinion to ban masks? Fuck yea it did. And that pressure didn't build because people on the right stopped every other person on the right who brought up the idea that masks might suffocate you. They all had enough social awareness to take those dumb ideas and build off and spread it. They created memes and found studies that supported their ideas. They shared articles of masks killing people. They pushed it all to every comment thread under every politician they could and in every online post. They weren't idiots. They knew what they were doing. The left were idiots for thinking they didn't.
This is a point I want a lot of people too understand here. The left call the right leaning people idiots. They're fucking not. Not even close. Are there idiots among them? Sure. But as a group they are leaps and bounds ahead of anyone on the left. We have a serious problem on the left and I'm not sure how that gets solved because it first needs an awareness of how the left may be dumber and less effective than the right.