I see that conspiracy fantasy man Riccardo Bosi is on Twitter claiming that the police have said that 1.2 million cars entered Canberra, so that means there were probably 2 million plus people protesting (!)
As someone on Twitter says:
As for the speech he gave at the rally, he twice referenced the politicians being "Masonic" slime who are dividing people against each other. (He is Catholic - and is this a specifically Australian import into his basically American conspiracy mindset?) He repeated the outright lie that the electoral commission wants to use Dominion vote counting machines. (That got a lot of boos from the crowd.)
Is there a word for this type of eccentric conspiracy mongering? The bit about blaming e-vil politicians, corporations or what-not for "dividing us" - religion against religion, black against white, parent against children? It's kind of weird, I reckon, claiming that everyone is just an unknowing pawn of forces they don't understand, and they would all join hands and sing kumbaya if only - umm - every single politician is sacked and replaced by a bunch of wingnuts who believe Bosi and who'll re-write the constitution?
It's so, so stupid.
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He is a complete and utter fruitcake
Absolutely.
I am no longer surprised by any idiocy from the Right. Last night on Catallaxy someone stated that they prefer Putin to Biden and ScoMo. The comment received many upticks That's plain nuts and demonstrates how political affiliation can twist a person's cognition so that they would prefer a murderous corrupt psychopath to mediocre men. We're in dangerous territory when there are so many people who think like that.
John, that's pretty blackly amusing but not surprising. Putin ties in with their culture war obsession with the Left representing male emasculation and scary atheism. Putin (hilariously, like Trump) is admired for being a "man's man" who gets his way, and "on side" with conservative religion, and as such he is forgiven anything.
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