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    3 days ago

    He started as an Essex new-age festival kiddie type with hippie-left politics. Then he went down the conspiracy rathole (staring with anti-vaxx bullshit) and ended up a fascist. It’s not clear to me if that was mainly due to drug-induced massive gullibility or the realization that there were lots of opportunities for grift on the right.

    I don’t accept horseshoe theory in general, but it is definitely possible to traverse the fact-free fringe all the way from peace and love to full-scale fascism.

    Edit: the profile he really fits (leaving out the rape) is “I used to be all fucked up on drugs. Now I’m all fucked up on the Lord.”