The pure muppetry is laughter inducing.
It reminds me of those Afghan jumping jack and terrorist propaganda blooper videos in a hipster kind of way.
Unfortunately, I can never keep it light and have to get serious.
This feels like a 21st century social media fuelled Groundhog Day of the late 60's/early 70's, based on what I've read/seen of history.
Weathermen, Baader Meinhoff/RAF, and to a lesser extent the Black Panthers were formed and fuelled on campus amongst youth cohorts in groups that started as non violent, and mutated into political violence and terrorism. At least that's my understanding, feel free to correct me if wrong.
1,000,000 attend a single non violent protest event and active on social media
100,000 attend multiple events and take leadership role on social media
10,000 commit misdemeanour criminal acts of civil disobedience and sympathetic
1000 willing to act as auxiliary and underground for political violence movement
100 hardcore urban guerrillas
Not to scale obviously and just my speculation, but surely there's some quant jockey good with the maths who can accurately predict like an insurance actuary that X folks participating in a movement leads to Y folks building bombs, or worse Z folks who will just continue to persistently and resiliently build their political base in a strictly non violent movement like a cancer.
So I'm laughing, but I'm also trying to think of this as an indicator rather than just the pathetic "capability" it is.
Occupy and Tea Party grew enormously and quickly, but both networks lacked the hierarchy necessary to be anything more than an amoeba without a nucleus.
I'm most interested in any nucleus that develops thru iteration from the left side of the spectrum.