Doctor Mike
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And he describes it as like, you know, they're like the Knights and like the, the MOOCs is the term he uses, like the MOOCs kind of assemble under the banner of the Knights and like they fight.
And then the, you know, the, the sort of followers really want to be recognized by the Knight.
And one of the things I would see early on, um, is people would put in their Twitter bio, like, you know, retweeted by Dan Bongino three times.
Yeah.
And, um,
it would be like a point of pride that they had done something or said something and it was like clout for them like they had risen slightly higher in the you know hierarchical right fandom and so when you watch the like the fandom dynamics um that transpire there it is something where the like just the beefing and the
It kind of like it situates people like they know where they stand.
They know their social hierarchy.
They have a purpose.
It also gives them something to do.
There's an activity.
There's a mission like I'm coming onto social media to do this thing.
And it's exciting.
It's entertaining.
There's a point to it.
Yeah, 100%.
And that is, I think, when you then add a political layer, not only are you owning your enemy, but you're getting your point out there.
Maybe you're getting your guy elected.
Maybe you're...
expanding the Overton window for your weird niche political view, you know?