More Right-Wing Crackpottery

Twitter has always been a hotbed of crazy conspiracy nuts, but since Musk bought it, things seem to have gotten worse. Before, if you were unlucky, one or two might pop up in a trending topic, (unless you deliberately clicked on an obviously crackpot trending topic, of course), nowadays it doesn't matter how serious the topic is, you'll find it just full of these idiots, spewing out their demented 'opinions'.  I'm guessing it is because, thanks to Musk and the 'Nazification' of Twitter, most regular, sane,people just don't bother posting any more.  (I increasingly find myself asking why I'm still there).  But some of their delusions are just so cracked that you are left wondering just how demented someone needs to be in order to swallow them.  A lot of them still centre on the war in Ukraine, with the Putin apologists not just regurgitating every piece of Russian propaganda and disinformation out there, but also coming up with some bizarre shit of their own.  Just the other day I came across one who kept posting in a topic which had nothing to do with the conflict, that aid to Ukraine is in fact the world's biggest money laundering scheme.  I'm not sure how they think it works - nobody is actually getting any money back for the weapons which are mostly donated rather than bought for Ukraine, in order that they can defend themselves against Russia's unprovoked aggression.  But I suppose that starting a war in order to launder money (which is presumably 'dirty' for some unspecified reason) is the obvious way to do it.  Presumably Russia must be getting a cut as payment for invading Ukraine in the first place, in order to set it all off.

But the cranks have got a new conflict to spin their moronic conspiracy fantasies around in the form of the Gaza-Israeli hostilities.  Here, it gets interesting with regard to who supports which side in the conspiracies they weave.  Now, while you might expect it to be a simple left-right split, with the former favouring the Palestinians and the right Israel, a visit to any trending topic or hashtag about the conflict on Twitter will reveal a clear schism between different parts of the extreme right.  I was, for instance, surprised to find Nick Griffin, late of the BNP, supporting the Palestinians, (not as surprised as I was to find that he was actually still around, having been eclipsed in the realm of right-wing lunacy years ago, by the likes of the EDL, UKIP and Reform).  But when you think about it, his position makes sense - those Israelis are Jews, after all, and Nick is an old school right-wing extremist, true to his cracked principles.  Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka 'Tommy Robinson'), football hooligan, convicted mortgage fraudster and would be leader of the British 'patriotic' extreme right, on the other hand, favours Israel in the conflict, because in his wing of far-right extremism the Muslims have replaced the Jews as their main bogeyman, (presumably because they are easier for his idiot supporters to recognise - I mean, those Jews, they can look just like us you know).  So we have the fascinating sight of Nick Griffin and his ex-BNP right-wing extremists lining up with the left's Cult of Corbyn in supporting Hamas, while our other favourite British nationalist bastard, Yaxley-Lennon lines up with mainstream British politicians of all stripes in backing Israel.  A situation which should give our legitimate parties and movements on both left and right cause for concern.