PRE-SUBMISSION EDIT: This is a long-winded reply and goes increasingly off-topic as it progresses, sorry. TLDR I agree
Anecdotally, I’ve also noticed a rapid change in the last decade or so as politicians become emboldened by Trump’s success. For example, the premier of a major Canadian province has done the following:
- Took on some of Trump’s advisors who claimed the COVID vaccines were a bioweapon
- Denied aspects of the well-documented cultural genocide occuring in Canada’s residential schools
- Claimed that people who took a COVID vaccine would have been Nazi sympathizers
- Stated that the first three stages of cancer are “completely within your control”, advocating for neuropathy
- Claimed in 2003 that smoking can reduce the risk of disease
She was previously head of the (now defunct) Wildrose party before defecting and indirectly leading to the historic 2015 election, which marked the first time a left-wing party formed a majority government in almost 80 years.
But even then the most controversial thing she said (publicly) was that ‘the science on climate change “wasn’t settled”’, still inane but a far cry from what was to come after her return to power in 2022
I suppose it’s to stop a critical mass of promoters commenting “and my axe” among themselves? I agree though it doesn’t really feel right to encourage more low effort posts