New account but I've been using burner accounts and lurking since the sub got banned. I've been seeing all the standard liberal brainworms again for the first time since 
and everytime it's an account from another federation. I was tepidly against federation at first but this has been entertaining, like the old days of 
people who wandered into the sub.
I gotta imagine this will only last another week before everyone defederates us, but let's enjoy it for now.
I'd say you're being more revisionist than I am. You know it was well orchestrated but you're totally missing what the methods and mechanisms to convince the "middle" were. It didn't become a movement almost literally overnight because the extremists all went mask off.
Were you even there when it grew and happened? It sounds like you missed it entirely and only know about it from after-the-fact recordings that can't possibly capture the actual contemporary phenomena as it gripped communities in front of us.
Also, the nature of the replies to my comment are more in line with how GGers responded than it isn't. Please go back and reconsider how my comment was actually about how bad behaviour fosters more bad behaviour.
I was around for it, yes, but I also read research on it because the basic nature of the movement is an illusion created by enculturation, as I already indicated
And that's the only thing you got out of it? The size and speed of the movement cannot simply be attributed to just a 4chan initiative.
I'm not saying there wasn't already a popular base for right wing aggrievement politics
Oh totally. It's how they ensnared more people that aren't actually all that right wing initially that concerns me.