lots of weird niche shit on the internet became problematic in a big way and maybe didn't seem like it mattered before. i kinda just accept that if i'm hearing a lot about something online, it's going to eventually spill into the mass culture too. look at qanon, i thought i was terminally online talking about it for a while but then my 70 yr old neighbors had stickers on their cars and everyone around me knew someone deep in it.

i don't see the same potential for the patsoc angle, but all it takes is some rich asshole to see the potential in this movement as a disruption and then funnel some cash into it and whew boy you're gonna hear more about it than you want. in fact, the rise of this patsoc shit (which wasn't anywhere on my radar before the past few weeks) is kinda setting off my alarm bells as something that would be really attractive to the intelligence community. so idk, i don't think people talking about it now as a means to nip it in the bud as much as possible is a bad thing, i'm pretty indifferent to it and i'm glad someone is keeping their eye on it so that if it becomes bigger in the cultural consciousness that at least there is a foundation for de-legitimizing it.