Like the type to unironically think Freemasons are the top dogs that control every faucet of society and every other sinister organization bows down to them. The ones who think they’re very smart and woke by saying some shit like “the media is trying to divide us…” They’ll see some socialist quote warning about bourgeois domination of the world and agree with it, but then have zero interest in actually internalizing the material reality. It’s like their entire brain is just based on random quotes and simpsons clips with red circles.

It is so intellectually lazy that I get whiplash every time I see them in the wild because I forget people like this exist. At least with right wing nut job conspiracies will have convictions whether they’re racist or antisemitic or just projection about pedophilia. Centrist conspiracy theorists’ just post some vague “I told you so” in the comments of YouTube and Facebook.

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    11 months ago

    Is the Freemasonry one ‘centrist’? I’ve seen it advocated by all kinds… its an anti-British Empire, sort of Catholic one isn’t it? And the protestants respond with ‘its actually all the Jesuits and the Vatican’. And then there’s syncretic versions that accuse both.

    I’m not sure they’re intellectually lazy, but its rather like tracking the cults of the Elites, of which there are many. They do tend to ignore environmental/class causes and processes and focus more on individuals and discrete specific parts, but they do a lot of research (sometimes of dubious quality ofc). Misguided or tunnel vision maybe, but not lazy.

    Personally, I don’t think they’re too offensive, they broadly share the same principals - anti-elite and pro-popular mass movement. Though maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re referring to, ‘centrist’ is confusing me.