This photo from the Sydney protest has featured on Twitter a lot:
I have the impression that the scale of the weekend protests caught people by surprise - the Right wingnuts in the open thread at Catallaxy, for example, were sympathetic to it but few seemed to have been aware that it was going to happen. The main avenue for its organisation (probably Facebook?) would be good to know. Just another example of the unforeseen damage the internet has caused.
Over in England, meanwhile:
Further down that thread:
Let's have a look at the Right wing paranoia that Lew Wallace suffers from:
On the other hand, there is an element of truth in this:
But the problem I keep coming back to is the way the internet has enabled faster communication between the nutters, enabling better organisation, the faster spread of falsehoods, and a sense of community that they interpret as meaning they can't be wrong, because so many others think the same.
quite sad
ReplyDeleteMovements are sustained by fanatics not reason. In the past the fanatic was the fool on the hill, standing alone and somewhat alienated from society at large. Now they can collectively become a dangerous power in society because they are so impassioned about their cause.
ReplyDeleteAlan Jones together with Craig Kelly apparently made some very stupid comments about vaccines. Jones had to offer an apology, probably because his and Kelly's arguments were demolished on Media Watch. Jones needs to go away. His climate change nuttery is worse than the vaccine issue. Catallaxy probably echoes both of his idiotic positions.