- Having it all laid out made me realise that the pseudo-intellectual, too cute by half, 5D chess bullshit that RCs love dovetails incredibly well with conspiracist thinking; "the good people are secretly bad and the bad people are secretly good" is the basis for a lot of conspiracy theories.
- Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
