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> so there were huge swaths of people they really had no experience of. Now these people are @ing them on Twitter. And seeing these people out there makes them
by thephyber 4y ago
> so there were huge swaths of people they really had no experience of. Now these people are @ing them on Twitter. And seeing these people out there makes them very, very uncomfortable.
"These people" have brought us a mass convergence of social panics (some recent, others remixed):
- Anti-government zealotry (a la sovereign citizens, accelerationists, Ruby Ridge, Timothy McVeigh, Turner Diaries readers, Amon Bundy militia, 3 Percenters, Boogaloo Boys, neo-nazis)
- traditional family advocates / anti LGBTQ+
- sexual slavery/trafficking
- anti police-violence (both the pro-police and anti-police movements)
- local community book burning
- "abortion is genocide"
- "white genocide"
- 2020 election fraud
- anti "Jews control the [elite organization]" (millennias old)
- Pizzagate / adrenachrome / HollyWeird / "cabal of [elite people] who [some secret sex or slavery acts]" / QAnon
- Obama birtherism
- numerous things with the Clintons including "the Clinton Kill Count", "HER EMAILS!!!", and Benghazi
- numerous things with Donald Trump (too many to name)
- George Soros (theories about uses of dark money)
- The Koch brothers (theories about uses of dark money)