Man what a plot twist
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Their mistake was creating a focus point in the first place. If /pol/ was fake and gay from the start, what it did was concentrate a lot of good-faith actors in the same spot, along with the ops. They allowed it to grow too much, and it escaped, as you said. The fact that people organically saw how bogus it was as they turned up the heat, and eventually abandoned it, is a sign they are not as powerful as they think they are.