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[Fake Messiah]

Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for the 15-Minute City

Carla Francome campaigns for better cycling routes in Haringey, North London, where she moved a few years ago in search of a community—“an area where I could make friends that would go to the park with me on a Saturday,” she says. “And where there are cafés nearby, and everything is in walking distance (15 mins).”

But nothing has compared to the stream of vitriol she’s received on Twitter since, on February 12, she posted a thread about the benefits of 15-minute neighborhoods—a concept in urban planning that suggests services should be spread out around cities, and that no one should be more than quarter of an hour away from parks, shops, and schools.

“That’s not freedom, that’s a socialist prison,” said one reply to her thread, from an account with the user name @pauldup80977540. Another account, @BusinessLioness, whose feed is peppered with anti-vaccine messaging and retweets of far-right commentators, sent Francome an image of the Warsaw Ghetto with a message: “There were already 15-minute cities in Poland during the Nazi occupation … In 1941 the Nazis introduced the death penalty for going out.”

Francome had unwittingly blundered into the middle of an evolving conspiracy theory, which has bundled up innocuous ideas in urban development, from traffic calming and air pollution measures to cycle lanes, into a kind of meta-narrative—a meeting point for anti-lockdown activists, anti-vaxxers, QAnon adepts, anti-Semites, climate deniers, and the far right. With help from right-wing figures in the US and UK, including the author Jordan Peterson, the 15-minute city concept has become entwined within a much bigger universe of conspiracies based around the idea of a “Great Reset” that will see people locked in their homes by climate-obsessed autocracies.

The 15-minute city conspiracy theory has become entrenched in the UK’s political fringe, referenced in interviews on GB News, a free-to-air TV channel that has periodically promoted conspiracy theories. On February 9, Nick Fletcher, a member of parliament in the ruling Conservative Party, referenced the conspiracy while asking a question about 15-minute cities in the House of Commons, calling it an “international socialist concept” that would “take away our personal freedom.”

https://www.wired.com/story/15-minute-ci...te-denier/

[The Grand Nudger]

If the great resets are so great why do they have to keep resetting things?

[Fake Messiah]

Not to mention that conspiracy people label every ecological measure as Nazism but fail to do the same with situations that were created by oil companies' lobbies.

Like, they could easily claim that smog-filled cities are like gas chambers in death camps, but they never do.

[zebo-the-fat]

OK, you can walk to wherever you need to go in 15 minutes, but if you are not going to be arrested for going outside that area, what's the problem?

[Fireball]

OK, you can walk to wherever you need to go in 15 minutes, but if you are not going to be arrested for going outside that area, what's the problem?

Some people seem to enjoy leading the small-minded around by their noses, I guess.

[Fake Messiah]

Naomi Wolf claims that because Americans have abandoned Yahweh, the ancient gods, who are evil demons, have seized control of world governments in order to use COVID vaccines to destroy us.

https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/have-th...s-returned

[zebo-the-fat]

Is that why we are all dead now?

(very inefficient gods maybe?)

[Fake Messiah]

Mexican president sparks social media frenzy by sharing photo of creature he claims is an ELF sitting atop a tree



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...o-elf.html

[Fake Messiah]

Ukraine war: Viral conspiracy theories falsely claim the war is fake

A number of US right-wing accounts with large followings posted a series of baseless claims that suggested the entire Ukraine war might be a hoax perpetrated by Western media and governments.

One false claim that has been gaining traction on Twitter and elsewhere suggested that the entire war has somehow been faked.

As evidence, some prominent right-wing accounts in the US cited the supposed lack of footage from the front line.

A commentator complained about "the lack of war footage" in a viral post, saying it "smacks of a scam".

Another Twitter influencer with 1.4 million followers claimed there was "no footage" and "no detailed updates" of the war.

That post was later shared by former US national security adviser Michael Flynn, who added: "I double dare anyone to say he is wrong."

In the past few days, images of the block, which has since been repaired and partially reconstructed, went viral again on social media.

The image led to claims that either the block had never been hit, or that the entire war is a hoax, because - the argument went - it would be impossible to restore a building during an ongoing conflict.

A right-wing podcaster and anti-vaccine activist, whose previously banned account was recently reinstated by Twitter, was among those that shared the claim.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64789737

[The Grand Nudger]

"If the facts of the war in ukraine tend not to reenforce my wordlview, then perhaps there is no fact of the war in ukraine." Holy shit, wouldn't that be handy?