And if it is the case that these people are being paraded out for *based liberal pwnage with facts and logic* purposes, I guess the next question would be how and why do they do it? Do the same astroturfing outfits who get people riled up about net neutrality or tell people 'there's nothing here, go to sleep' whenever there's a big classified documents leak ALSO flood imageboards, news aggregators and social media with AOC memes? It's a crazy amount of effort to go to just to distract our attention, and yet I can't help but feel the punching-bag-of-the-week type cycles we go through are a little odd in the suddenness of their onset and their intensity. edit: I mean, for a more normal reaction to a high-profile lunatic douchebag, look at the saga of Shia Lebeouff. He had to get in a fight with someone at his own public activism display that ironically was supposed to preach unity and then also stage an elaborate worldwide capture-the-flag-type game to get the internet's attention. And this little girl just has to cry in front of a panel of globalists and the internet is all over her?