Thread by @brooklynmarie

Hello everybody, please enjoy this 1987 op-ed I found by somebody who isn't against seat belts, just seat belt mandates web.archive.org/web/2021032001…

Sorry, I meant letter to the editor in response to an op-ed*, which I am still looking for. But check it out

I can't find the anti-seat belt editorial. But I did find this. You see how it's been the exact same pattern, all along, right down to the way it's been politicized? From 1986 web.archive.org/web/2021031904…

Same arguments. Same tactics. Same people. Same politicization. The only thing that ever changes is the "controversial" topic, which never really is -- it's just a bunch of loud assholes. See how it works now?

never really is important* as in, the topic doesn't really matter so long as there's some sort of resentment to be harnessed, and then here we are.

2004: wsj.com/articles/SB110…

Here's the art in this 2004 article of a biker named "Sputnik"

Surely these arguments also sound familiar. You know why?

Notice how these all seem to take place around especially bitter and divisive election years? Yeah, there's a reason for that, too -- they're both a cause and an effect.

So please stop falling for this stupid tactic before your friendly neighborhood debunker tears out all her remaining hair, it's too dumb, please and thank you, the end