The threads that don’t connect: Covid gives Australian conspiracy theorists a common home – The Guardian

In the remote border town of Texas in northern New South Wales last month, a police officer pulled over a truck driver after he allegedly crossed into Queensland without providing identification.
In footage posted online, the 33-year-old can be heard asking the officer whether he worked for the corporation known as the Queensland police in all capital letters?
He then asks: Am I a man?
The officers deadpan response Its 2020 mate. What do you identify as? got him his own thread on Reddit, but …

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