Interesting
#longread for people outside the so called
#Netherlands about the farmer 'protests'. Gives a good overview, and explains the connection with
#farRight #conspiracy 'theorists' and the notorious
#Covid denialists.
Salon (Kathryn Joyce): *Far right's latest cause: Manure-flinging Dutch farmers and the "Great Reset"*
"How rowdy Dutch farmers became the new "trucker convoy" — heroes to Tucker Carlson and right-wing Twitter"
https://www.salon.com/2022/07/15/far-rights-latest-cause-manure-flinging-dutch-farmers-and-the-great-reset/"Last week on Fox News' Tucker Carlson show, a young Dutch media personality introduced American viewers to a frightening new vision: The government of the Netherlands, she said, was stealing Dutch farmland "under the guise" of a fabricated environmental crisis, but actually as part of a communist plot to transform Holland's countryside into mass housing for immigrants and to enact something called the "Great Reset."
The oracle behind this dire prediction was Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a former candidate for Holland's far-right Forum for Democracy party whose strident demeanor and good looks have earned her the Dutch media nicknames "Aryan princess," "shield maiden for the right" and, apparently since last week, "Eva Braun." …"
#fascism #FOXnews #FvD #Baudet #conspiracists #Conspiranoia #ecocide #nitrogen #farmers #agromaffia