There’s a dark irony to the scorn being poured on 5G conspiracy theorists right now. Which is that a lot of the ridicule is coming from those sections of society that have done more than their fair share to stoke up conspiratorial thinking in recent years.
Whether it is the unhinged idea that Russian bots made us vote for Brexit, or the obsession with Zionist power and its malign influence on British politics, conspiracy theories have become positively fashionable in the UK over the past five years. And such warped thinking has been promoted by the very people — Twitter leftists, supposedly sensible Remainers — who are now getting their rocks off by mocking the handful of 5G nutters.
The 5G conspiracy theory is mental. It’s a classic conspiracy theory. It features dastardly people with power — in this case evil tech companies — doing something awful to the rest of us: in this case exacerbating the spread of a novel new virus with their ‘5G contagion’.
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