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The reason they want you to not wear masks is, facial recognition that is literally everywhere doesn’t work if your masked. You can help protect the vulnerable and yourself from invasive tracking with this one simple trick.

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facial recognition that is literally everywhere doesn’t work if your masked.

Afaik that’s illegal within the EU. Also, there’s more than just facial recognition. They can even learn the way you walk.

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Yeah there is way more digital human recognition going on than we all like to acknowledge here in the states.

I must admit I’m super jealous of you Europeans. I’m very happy that you ladies and gents over there have a more formed and functional governance and your not yet in our predicament.

Watching a documentary of the first peoples of Ireland and wish I could be there instead of here right now.

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The EU can be extremely bipolar unfortunately, see the chat control debate currently. I’m actually surprised with how many decent shit gets through sometimes, considering how most of the EU parliaments are mostly made up of conservatives or worse.

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The reason I don’t want you to wear masks is I don’t like being surrounded by faces I can’t read.

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That may be a side effect but it’s not the reason.

The reason is that they don’t want to be told what to do by the government. They want to use the government to tell other people what to do.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

This is about wielding power.

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Government: “wear a mask to protect others”

Conservatives: “Nuh uh! You can’t tell me what to do! Hurr durr honk honk muh freedumbs!!”

Government: “wearing a mask is strictly prohibited”

Conservatives: “As you wish, my sire, whose boot shall I lick?”

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Just to pile on to that thought, it’s also a wedge issue that makes stupid people very angry, and angry people are motivated to be politically active. They will shout down reasonable people, commit acts of violence, and vote in reliable numbers. Polite society tends to avoid political debate, in part because the angry morons show up to disrupt the quiet.

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