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by Terr_ 1 hour ago
I dare a grammarian to take the above-sentence and diagram it out.

No, I'm not "feigning surprise", I am legitimately struggling to figure out exactly which party is supposedly bad for what and what logic makes them responsible for what someone else might've done, and frankly it's not making me very sympathetic to... whatever the argument is.

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This is as far as I got in terms of guesswork:

    There's a double layer of irony here,        # There is something wrong and hypocritical.
                                                 #
    where the people                             # People who thought vaccines were good
    criticizing people                           # criticized anti-vaxxers,
    of the ignorance                             # saying the anti-vaxxers didn't realize
    of "unintended" consequences                 # the damage they would cause
    of vaccine fear                              # by scaring everyone away from proper treatment.
                                                 #
    will play defense                            # Those people give excuses
    for the unintended consequence               # for the problem they actually created
    of causing that fear                         # by MAKING the anti-vaxxers afraid in the first place
    by the extremely aggressive pushing          # since they tried too hard
    of vaccine policies during covid.            # to get people to take vaccines to stop the virus.
So, unless I've taken a wrong turn somewhere... *sigh* Hell no.

It's like: "Well, the car is wrecked, and it's all your fault. You should have known that I don't like being told to slow down, and that I had no choice but to accelerate in order to spite you and show that you aren't the boss of me. We could have avoided all of this if you'd just babied my special-needs like an adult."