Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties | The Tyee
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A conference call shows a political operative with past Conservative connections advising several white nationalist groups.
  • GrindingGears
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    9 days ago

    One thing that I just absolutely cannot reconcile in all of this, is the involvement of people who obviously have some sort of first or second generational immigration background, in screaming and oppressing immigration.

    I know of a person who is now in the US just absolutely down the MAGA spiral. But the weird thing is, his grandparents died in a concentration camp in the second world war. He himself is now an immigrant to the US, from a country he also immigrated to earlier in life. Just absolutely droning on about…immigrants.

    It’s completely baffling. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

    • stormioEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      I had never heard of Othman Mekhloufi prior to reading this article, but I think it’s funny that a self-described Middle Eastern man would flirt with white nationalism. Does he think he’s a part of the team or something? It makes me think about the “I never thought the leopards would eat my face” meme.

      • GrindingGears
        3·
        8 days ago

        It’s like Kayne admiring the Nazis. He’s now claiming it’s mental illness. Makes me think that’s what this largely is. That we have a mental illness crisis, and these dopamine rich environments like social media are just exacerbating the problem.

        • ThreeskittiesinatrenchcoatEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          It really is, you take a bunch of damaged people, cut them off from real life support systems, then feed them a non-stop stream of confirmation bias designed to keep them in the system, to keep them coming back to the echo chamber for more confirmation bias. By keeping people in these clashing versions of reality, instead of coming together to find resolution, or compromise, which is the hard option here, the path of least resistance is to fall back into those bubbles, to double down.

          It’s a real mental health crisis that I’ve been calling political psychosis, because when you look at it from a mental health perspective, these folks have absolutely become so wrapped up in conspiracies and narratives on social media, they’re completely unable to respond to the reality unfolding around them.

          As much as I want to scream, I know first hand that under the right conditions, anyone can potentially fall into psychosis.