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Brought to you by my discovery that some people think that “the customer is always right” isn’t the slogan of a long-dead department store, but rather it’s an actual call the cops law.

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[–] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. They were told by their talking heads that they should be against masks but that doesn't make sense. The powerful people need the votes right? We haven't descended fully into fascism yet, just mostly...so why would they push that narrative knowing it would kill people who would vote for them? Was it a calculated risk to attempt to kill more of the other guys? I'm just confused about how that worked in their minds, and why they wouldn't have looked for some other narrative that wouldn't endanger their voters so much. I get that they don't care about the people who cast the votes, but they do care about the votes.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

They thought that cities, which lean heavily blue, would be more affected. This was the case at first, until we got a handle on things, particularly vaccines. Then their strategy backfired and killed more reds.