seeing pics from "anti-lockdown" demo at Trafalgar Sq today, you can see how mobilisations cohered around conspiracy theory communities & discourses are able to bring convergence to seemingly far-flung constituencies: from hippy/new age Occupy-types to Right libertarians to Nazis

i know i'm a broken record on this but these are movements, by the very structure & form of their politics & worldview-building, for the reproduction of antisemitic violence. their platform speakers are world-renowned holocaust deniers, they're obsessed with secret "baby-killing"

conspiracy theory is mass disempowerment, demobilisation and counter-revolutionary politics. it's not been sufficiently or seriously combatted in "left" movements for the last 20 years (a persistent problem in anti-globalization, Occupy, Corbynism).

i can't tell you how many people I've seen in the last decade irl or #onhere who had broadly left or liberal politics before the youtube algorithm or resentments and privileges that they harboured took hold and set them off on these trajectories