I've just found an anti-vax "people-funded paper" on my doorstep. It's called The Light and seems convinced that government Covid data are lies, PCR tests mostly false positives, the vaccine is part of "the great reset" to reduce population through infertility and therefore those refusing vaccination are a crucial "control group" who won't be infertile which will prove the "great reset" plot is real and lead to mass revolt.
Sprinkled between the anti-vax pieces are articles questioning anthropogenic climate change, bizarre grudge tirades and a training course for "Common Law Constables" which sounds like the starting point for some sort of US-style militia.
It includes quite a bit of content about governments using Covid to justify oppression outside the UK, mostly US but also France, Germany, Canada, Israel etc. and the term "globalists" is used which is a common alt-right term, often anti-semitically loaded.
It's quite a similar approach to the patchwork assemblages used in 9/11 conspiracy theories after 2001. Pick and mix things which look like evidence on the assumption that people are too busy, untrained or innoculated against counter-evidence to do the necessary checking, then sit back and wait for the book sales, clicks and course participants to come rolling in.
It's essentially an anglicised potage of the agenda now dominant in the Republican party which, just like the formerly sensible Conservative Party here, has lost its compass.
Presumably the newspaper format is intended to reach those who don't bother with social media.
It's interesting how those nudging us towards the destruction of liberty believe they are protecting us from forces which seek to deprive us of liberty. Humans often believe about others what they cannot bear to believe about themselves.
I wonder what "people-funded" really means.
I was actually pretty shocked to find this lying outside my door.
Tom, if any of this strays beyond the brief for the thread I'd be happy to fillet it.