• Troy
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    5410 days ago

    You could draw a similar diagram in other contexts. Antivaxxers coming from the left-leaning hippy crowd and converging with the religious crowd on the right. Etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      109 days ago

      Yeah like Richard Dawkins pushing anti-trans conspiracy theories and platforming anti-science religous bigots.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        38 days ago

        Sam Harris straight up started a “Free Will isn’t real, now come cherrypick Buddhism and blame Arabs for destroying Europe with me!” cult, and became best bros with Jordan Peterson.

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        38 days ago

        This sucks so much. It was so disappointing, I looked up to this guy a lot. His books were the key part in my radicalisation pipeline but now I see him praising Musk and other stuff like this :(