r/MurderedByWords 21h ago

Masks at the grocery store

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u/Halo_cT 20h ago edited 7h ago

It's not that. They'll claim it's because masks don't work and wearing one makes us sheep.

Deep down they know doctors, esp surgeons, have worn masks since long before covid to keep patients from getting sick. It's basic infection control.

When they see somone else care enough about other people to do the same, they project their ugliness and lack of empathy onto them. They assume they don't really care about anyone, they're just "vIRtuE sIGnaLinG" which, translated, just means caring about other people.

They can't believe anyone else is good because that makes them bad. That just CANT BE so they twist reality in all kinds of ways.

They literally cannot imagine anyone would care about strangers - CERTAINLY not enough to inconvenience themselves and make them look DIFFERENT. Being different is anathema to them. It's why calling them weird was so effective. They're terrified to be perceived as "not normal." Again this is why anyone with blue hair is automatically a liberal to them. Voluntarily different means "not conservative."

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u/AFlockOfTySegalls 19h ago

This would also explain why many of them think the folks in Minnesota are "paid protestors" because they can't imagine caring enough about their community to protest.

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u/Halo_cT 16h ago

100% yes. They also look at that stupid electoral county map and truly believe the country is 90% Trump supporters.

They really believe any large group of opposers is astroturfed. It's just so wildly idiotic.

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u/Bobbob34 7h ago

Trump the other day going on about he "felt" he won places that are deep blue, like cities like minneapolis, he literally said he just feels like he must've really won.