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Great article, and if you don't mind I'll provide a recent example I've come across:
"About 3 in 5 voters plan to get the new Covid booster"
This is how they try to convince you that doing what they want puts you in the majority (sometimes they come out and say "on the right side"). "We're all doing this thing, so you should do it, too!"
I'm old enough to remember when peer pressure was bad -- now government uses it against us.
perfect example
There's simply no way that I believe that 60% of "voters" are planning on getting a booster. Before they yanked the stats, booster uptake was something like 15% -- and every 'new' booster that comes out makes the 'anti-vaxxers' look more and more sane when we said that they'd never be fully vaccinated.
The "booster" that wanes after a month and leaves you twice as vulnerable to Covid?