>>71674 I saw a protest in Cambridge in November. It was hundreds of freaks and oddballs coming out against the introduction of a low emisssion zone. These people will make mountains out of mole hills about anything. The idea you're going to be banned from traveling to certain parts of Oxford is bananas, but they don't care. The modern right will lie about anything and everything because the actually agenda they tried to impliment from 1980-ish onwards has turned out to be complete piss.
It isn't a left/right thing. In these conspiratorial circles, you've got Qanon people stood shoulder to shoulder with Corbynistas. I'm not sure I can fully explain it, but my best guess is that a combination of political and economic instability and the constant barrage of unfiltered information is turning some susceptible people into swivel-eyed loons. The world feels like it's going to shit, the sensible explanations for what's happening are all complicated and boring and have no easy answers, so people take comfort in the idea that there's a shadowy cabal in charge and all the bad things will stop if we just wake up, sheeple. That belief doesn't neatly align with any particular ideology, because it's more eschatological than political.
>>71677 Oh, do me a favour. It's overwhelmingly a right-wing phenomenon, Piers Corbyn isn't a left-winger. He thinks Greta Thunberg is a Nazi and protests lockdown and mask wearing. He gives a veneer of plurality, but it's nothing more than that. None of this mental horseshit feeds into left-wing ideology like it does right-wing thinking.
"Isn't a left/right thing", Jesus, look who's in the OP.
>>71677 So many conspiracies have turned out to be true now that it's no longer reasonable to dismiss obvious bollocks as a load of bollocks. If people choose to believe something mental, the fact that it's mental is no longer enough to dissuade them. You could probably convince someone if you devoted all your time to doing so, but you can't do that for everyone.
If you want to define "right wing" as "anything I don't like", that's your prerogative. My point is that none of this fits into the conventional left/right axis. At anti-5G protests, you'll see as many Palestinian flags as union jacks, lads in trackies mingling with middle-aged hippies. If you look at the literature and rhetoric of people in the conspiracysphere, there's equal amounts of chat about "disaster capitalism" and "global oligarchs" as there is about "so-called experts" and "liberal brainwashing". It's a position of total distrust of all institutions - politics, academia, business, finance.
Is the belief that Vodafone are conspiring with Pfizer under the control of the WEF and the WHO to perpetrate genocide left-wing or right-wing? You tell me. It's impossible to meaningfully categorise their position in conventional political terms, because they're so unmoored from reality. The main focus of their activism is campaigning against figments of their own imagination.
>>71677 I've noticed that all the free spirit hippy people I know have been very anti-vax and anti-lockdown. I suppose it makes sense that people who are strongly left and strongly right are very anti-authoritarian and distrusting of the establishment. It's those centrist types who utter things like "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" you've really got to keep an eye on.
>>71680 This is true all across the political spectrum. You've only got to look at people being right about Rotherham or police spies snagging protesters for people to be feel vindicated in their beliefs. I lost track of the number of people I considered rational to start spouting things like the true death toll of grenfell was in the tens of thousands.
I think the bigger and more interesting question than all this socio-political tedium is how and why does the OP of this thread know that channel exists? And then the follow up question of what in the flying Christ is that channel?
>>71686 The channel is some guy with autism who does "reaction" videos to things he sees on TV, but more recently has been hanging out with his niece. He also has an ongoing feud with the manager of his local Wetherspoons.
>>71689 >an ongoing feud with the manager of his local Wetherspoons
A noble crusade. I hope he triumphs and goes on to reclaim all misappropriated Taverns from that Jim Henson puppet version of an over-opinionated Taxi Driver.
