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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1265 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A sober discussion: Aliens on Earth

My wife showed me a thread in one of the Facebook groups she subscribes to as a naturopathic physician. There were maybe 50 people worrying over the fact that keys stick to them now. There were only a couple people going "did you ever try sticking your keys to your body... before you were vaccinated?" There were zero people going "have you checked to see if your keys are, in fact, magnetic? With like... a magnet?"

One of the two political parties of the most powerful nation on earth has evolved to embrace the following platform:

- knowledge is suspect

- science is false

- infectious vulnerability is virtue

- social protections are evil

And granted, once you've started down that road it's really hard to turn off of it. But it's also really hard to recruit new members to your cause.