Critical support to Tennessean used car salesmen with brains so fried by Qanon they’re stumbling backwards into opposing Bill Gates geo-engineering bullshit

If this is a case of “person realizes something everyone already knew” please let me know.

The anarchist-to-ML pipeline is real, and as someone who went through it, I’ll say that anti-structure Reaction is also real. A lot of anarchists (at least in my experience) are young and full of piss and vinegar and distrustful of any kind of hierarchy that could constrain their individual actions. It’s a form of liberalism that many outgrow and many don’t.

Then there’s the fact that in the U.S. at least, anarchism is far more tolerated by the state than is any kind of organized ML movement. Other comments have already addressed this, but it bears repeating: when you spend your whole life immersed in anti-communist propaganada, it’s easy to take at face value that ML governments / orgs are “just as bad” as the capitalists.