Wasn’t he in WIkileaks? (Yes). He left after a few weeks, started dishing the dirt as soon as the Assange thing started. Joined the Guardian soon after (2011)
The only barrier to Julian Assange leaving Ecuador’s embassy is pride
(How’d this friendly advice work out then…)
Ivor Chudov flags up this recent offering.
‘Everything you’ve been told is a lie!’ Inside the wellness-to-fascism pipeline
From conspiracies to alternative health, medical sceptism … the short hops to pro-Russian and Qanon - and you’re probably one of those incels.
Last stop - fascism.
He said it.
Hat-tip to Ivor Chudov who has strung it all together nicely.
I missed this bit about the gender data gap!
(Okay I’ll give Mr Chudov his hat back soon, I promise)
Did Ballsy walk in the Guardian’s front door, or breeze in through the walls?
There’s a fundamental contradiction at the heart of the analysis.
On the one hand, the normies (sensible, mentally-balanced, institution-trusting liberals), e.g. James Ball, argue that conspiracism provides the disenchanted with camaraderie and community.
On the other hand, they also argue that it is because they are socially isolated, with only nutcase websites (e.g. Alex Jones’ Inforwars) as their friends, that they get sucked in.
That is, they argue both that conspiracists benefit from a sense of community and that they suffer from isolation. They argue both that community draws vulnerable people to conspiracism and isolation draws them there.
Arguing this meandering nonsense is a tactic to avoid debating awkward truths about what hard data reveals.