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Straw bans irritate me because they’re such transparent bullshit - and so many people prop it up as actually real, useful, and ‘helping’.
Similar to folks pushing homeopathy as real medicine and getting folks to nod along so they can sell it to even more suckers.
The whole country seems to be devolving to scam artists selling increasingly ridiculous feel good scams to everyone to boost our numbers.
I consider it yet another paper cut in the ongoing erosion of rational thought and pragmatic thinking in the public sphere.
Straw bans alone? Not hurting anyone too bad.
The overall direction is going to get a lot of people killed though.
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Straw bans irritate me because they’re such transparent bullshit - and so many people prop it up as actually real, useful, and ‘helping’.
Similar to folks pushing homeopathy as real medicine and getting folks to nod along so they can sell it to even more suckers.
The whole country seems to be devolving to scam artists selling increasingly ridiculous feel good scams to everyone to boost our numbers.
I consider it yet another paper cut in the ongoing erosion of rational thought and pragmatic thinking in the public sphere.
Straw bans alone? Not hurting anyone too bad.
The overall direction is going to get a lot of people killed though.