So he started wildfires to convince people the government was starting wildfires to convince people climate change was real. That’s a pretty twisted reason, even in the realm of Qnuttery. The problem for him is that he was essentially taking the government’s role in his imagined conspiracy - thereby, according to his own beliefs, working to convince people of climate change himself.
I never understood the right-wing fantasy about “Antifa” attacking congress on Jan 6th in order to disrupt the election they won, but in the context of this weird hyper-projection, I guess it actually makes some kind of sense to these sorts of people.
And we have the Parti Populaire du Canada. They’re pretty far-right, and I haven’t spoken to a single supporter who isn’t a nut job. Bumper stickers aren’t as much of a thing in Canada as they seem to be in the US, but PPC types are all in on bumper stickers which include pro-Convoy messaging, star-and-AR15 “come and take it” badges, and anti-vax nonsense.
I hadn’t thought about this before, but it’s true. These folks are the only ones I regularly see with bumper stickers these days. Even if they’re not overtly political ones, they’re still there.
After the close call back in the 90s they’ve faded as a force. The deal - simplified - was that they’d long used the threat of separation to get concessions, and the younger folk were getting fed up with this distraction and worried that they’d accidentally wind up with a majority yes vote. They got close to that happening in the 90s.
If you said ‘Quebec Man’ to me, my first thought would be ‘can play a stupid number of instruments’, maybe followed by ‘puts bacon in every dish’ - if you wanted quick stereotypes. ‘Sets fires to prove conspiracy theories’ wouldn’t make my list.
Maybe he was telling the truth. It is not possible to rule out the hypothesis that he really is an agent of the shadow cabinet, a minion of the deep state.
I do like erudite nonsense.
