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The absurdity is that there is an anti vaxxers convoy to DC, not that their group is being removed from Facebook.

Mysteries of the human mind. Enact a law that forbids even for some good reason that it's illegal say to wear hats made of dried artichokes, and although nobody would have wanted to wear one before, suddenly you'll see flocks of protestors with dried artichokes hats claiming democracy is dying because some very clever manipulative actor told them so.

Mandatory vaccination for many diseases is already in place since many decades in many countries, and some those vaccines in their first days could have been "young and not thoroughly tested" as anti vaxxers claim of Covid-19 vaccines (which are not), yet nobody made a drama or thought to use mandatory vaccination as political leverage. Back in the day, however, we had no such thing as this amplifier of human idiocy called social media, in which every matter can be abused to divide people in factions in order to exploit their tendency to become defensive, see enemies everywhere, compact their herd and ultimately also becoming sources of manufactured consent (votes).

So, I hereby swear that as soon as I'm being in power I'll ditch that absolute nazi-like law that prevents us from wearing our traditional beloved dried artichokes hats. Now vote me, thanks.




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