[mattomac]

I’m with the trust.

[Killer Whale]

A conservation retreat near Machynlleth has banned vaccinated visitors as a “precaution”, claiming that people who have had the coronavirus jab could have “an effect” on the unvaccinated.

https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=137288

Beyond fucknuggetry.

Hippies again, goes without saying.

[Bones McCoy]

A conservation retreat near Machynlleth has banned vaccinated visitors as a “precaution”, claiming that people who have had the coronavirus jab could have “an effect” on the unvaccinated.

https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=137288

Beyond fucknuggetry.

Hippies again, goes without saying.

Let's make our own conservation retreat; with blackjack and hookers.

[Boiler]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58499899

Charming.

[Boiler]

A conservation retreat near Machynlleth has banned vaccinated visitors as a “precaution”, claiming that people who have had the coronavirus jab could have “an effect” on the unvaccinated.

https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=137288

Beyond fucknuggetry.

Hippies again, goes without saying.

The comments beneath are just as unhinged...

[Killer Whale]

They actually quoted the UK Column. As i said before, Hippies standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the far right should come as no surprise.

[Boiler]

They actually quoted the UK Column. As i said before, Hippies standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the far right should come as no surprise.

It does to me - pls explain?

[kreuzberger]

It's been a while since Urban 75 got a name check here. At least they are not instinctively violent.

[davidjay]

They actually quoted the UK Column. As i said before, Hippies standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the far right should come as no surprise.

It does to me - pls explain?

I don't think it's strictly true, but these are strange times, when an unholy alliance has been formed from all sorts of extremist conspiracy theorists left and right.

[mattomac]

Tend to drift far left and we know the far left is more closer to the far right than the centre. Ant Vaccines is quite a popular theme on the far left. I assume it is also on the far right.

[Killer Whale]

They actually quoted the UK Column. As i said before, Hippies standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the far right should come as no surprise.

It does to me - pls explain?

The question still remains: what is it about the New Age subculture that opens it up to be the consistent target of dangerous individuals so seemingly unlike its believers? The answer lies within their shared critique of society. Both right-wing ideologues and members of New Age groups believe that modern society has lost its way. The modern world feels meaningless and disempowering, lacking strict definitions of how one should live one’s life. In times of crisis, these beliefs are magnified, and the fraudulence of our institutions is exposed. This creates an existential angst from which any convincingly-argued belief system can offer a seductive escape. This is especially true if the belief system harkens back to a traditional “Golden Age” free of this existential vacuum and the anxieties of modernity.

The thought that we can climb a spiritual hierarchy by following a path of ancient wisdom to become enlightened is tempting. However, this deep desire for life to be some sort of mythical quest can be easily manipulated by fascists, who can manufacture a cosmic enemy responsible for current suffering. In doing so, they appropriate the vague language of apolitical spiritual groups and then offer a potent substitute for meaning: a violent, and often racially-tinged, ideology. The nexus between these movements can be truly frightening, embodied in its extreme iteration by individuals resembling the bare-chested, horn-sporting “QAnon Shaman,” who recently became the face of the Capitol riots in Washington DC.

https://www.mironline.ca/beyond-the-qan ... movements/
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/counte ... and-right/

To me, the link is that both the Far Right and hardcore hippies (I'm not talking fellow travellers here, but the 'shamanic', sweat lodge holding, moon worshippers) aren't just irrational, but celebrate irrationality.

ETA: Interesting Medium link format.

[Andy McDandy]

As said before, it's like cults and terrorists. If they don't join one ideology, they'll join another. For some it's about having a cause and a sense of belonging. For others it's about manipulating people.

Hippies, fascists, freemen on the land, you name it - all work on fuzzy logic and pseudoscience to suggest that the real world is wrong and that a better life is attainable if just enough people believe strongly enough. A vaguely defined better life that boils down to "whatever you want on a plate".

[Bones McCoy]

A simpler explaination may be:

Where there's a big pool of gullibles, you'll get grifters.
And the grifters will bring more of their established gullibles with them.

[Nigredo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58499899

Charming.

There's one at work at work, with many a bog door bearing "White Rose" stickers.

Our Elfin Safety team sent out a company wide notice that the same fucknuggetry is being done with anti-5G posters placed on telecoms equipment.

[Tubby Isaacs]

He's still rocking. US Air Force (who have lots of vaccines already) about to be grounded because a bloke in a car who's made a video says so.

[Tubby Isaacs]

"Gates of Hell". This guy ought to have stayed in church, instead of being an actual state governor.

[Tubby Isaacs]

South Caroline, population smaller than Scotland, has announced 99 more deaths today.

[Bones McCoy]

South Caroline, population smaller than Scotland, has announced 99 more deaths today.

I'm supposed to value every human life, but these guys seem to be willing martyrs.

[Spoonman]

South Caroline, population smaller than Scotland, has announced 99 more deaths today.

I'm supposed to value every human life, but these guys seem to be willing martyrs.

More the case that they're happy for others to be the martyrs.

[Abernathy]

South Caroline, population smaller than Scotland, has announced 99 more deaths today.

Yeah, but it’s South Carolina.