Thread by @JuliusGoat

To believe that stage was an accident is to believe that the most conspiracy-minded people in the world, who look for symbolism hidden in *everything* already, w/membership including white supremacists that use Nordic runes, accidentally made their stage look like a Nordic rune.

https://twitter.com/fieldnegro/status/1366706464966991872

And you also have to believe that this, the nth instance of "accidental" use of white supremacist symbolism, meme, or catchphrase, is also an accident, as were all the others.

All while one of their elected members actually spoke an an actual unvarnished white supremacist event.

And you have to believe this at an event that featured as speaker a far-right Senator, who the month prior fomented a seditious insurrection, and voted to overturn democracy in America, calling for a "new nationalism."

From the transcript:

AND you'd have to believe it was an accident after the party's previous president had spent 4 years promoting, publishing, and repeating Nazi and neo Nazi catchphrases, symbols, memes, leaders, tactics, and policies.

A *very* partial thread.

https://twitter.com/JuliusGoat/status/1054670023523033089?s=20

Conspiracy-minded people actually engage in the exact sort of conspiracy-minded behavior that they falsely claim exists everywhere else in the world, so it's very difficult to accurately report on them without seeming conspiracy-minded yourself.

So it gets normalized.

All of which to say, go ahead and believe the stage design was an accident. But there's a lot of other stuff you also have to believe is a coincidence in order to do so, and at some point credulity reaches a breaking point.

Occam's razor is shaving a tiny square mustache here.

But what I'd report on I guess, if it were my profession to do so, are just the facts, which are:

1) The stage of this far-right nationalist group is in the shape of an obscure Nazi symbol used by far right-nationalist groups

2) They sure don't seem to MIND the Nazi stage

Feels newsworthy, given the whatdyacallit, the year of energetic genocide capped by the attempted putsch by white supremacists that may have come closer than we'll ever know to succeeding, followed by even more energetic dismantling of democracy.

I guess I'm the crazy one.

I'd observe that a politician stepping onto a stage shaped like a Nazi symbol would have at one point in my life been seen as political suicide, so politicians, who are self-interested creatures, would have declined.

They must now think doing so helps them w/their voters.

Remember their voters? The most conspiracy-minded people on the planet, who seen symbols and signs in everything?

If they see symbols even in places where they aren't, do you think they're going to fail to see one that's actually there?

It wasn't an accident. It never is.