@Catvalente It’s part of the performative disinformation movement. If it were just about moving an illicit product and collecting an income, they’d peddle dope and make a lot more. This is more about sustaining culture war than it is about serving customers, and the customers all know the “information” is bullshit. They engage with the performance of it anyway because it builds social credit for them.

@janxdevil @Catvalente Coincidentally I've encountered a fuckton of men in late youth/early middle age who have fallen down the rabbithole of right wing misogyny after being forced to quit drugs due to greater work / family responsibilities and new laws against DUI in my car-dependent country. Worst thing is they are *not* lonely incels, they have partners and kids and are angry that they are expected to calm down and look after family (which if anything is normal positive masculinity)

@vfrmedia @Catvalente Not a coincidence. Susan Faludi wrote up the basic shape of this culture war back in 1991 with her book BACKLASH. It’s been ongoing my entire adult life.