The Capital attack simultaneously being a false-flag antifa infiltration but also a real protest by patriots is *precisely* evocative of the 'quantum theory' of climate denial formed in the 2010s, where conflicting theories are all held simultaneously. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/02/australian-quantum-theory-climate-denial

Everyone who's been working on climate and energy can detect the DNA of early climate denial in these fever-swamp mythologies. And of course, racial justice and climate justice are closely linked.

This looks like a position of hypocrisy or inconsistency from the outside, but in their own universe it makes perfect sense: information comes after the conclusion; so it doesn't really matter if it's contradictory. https://twitter.com/Jeff_Sparrow/status/917518641695830017

There's always a little morsel of admission of shame, guilt or reality within these muddled mixes of theories, too. Surely the "Antifa infiltrators" theory is there to quell the feeling that - yeah - maybe this actually was a very bad thing that happened.

*Capitol, argh