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The mask.

Now before you howl and point your finger. I still see guys with beards wearing masks religiously. People wearing them under the nose too. These intensely virtuous yet somehow irrational people.

That mask got into their head. And it wasn't via a rational avenue.



Mask wearing never hit anywhere near 99 percent, did it? A party with about 50% of the vote even largely defined themselves as being against it.


A bearded person who wears the mask religiously. Would you call that a believer or something else?


I'm not sure but I wouldn't call it satisfying the heuristic being discussed here as evidence of a psyop.

> When the public opinion becomes nigh uniform. When near 99% of everybody agrees. When you see them mouthing the same catchy phrases. That's a psyop.




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