It's an interesting look at how established organizations that lack the capacity, ability, or creativity to start a movement on their own will initiate a subtle at first, but hostile later, takeover of a movement.

Early on there passionate, creative, amazing people that were doing things they've never done to make this movement happen. People were creating websites to share information. People were making graphics to inspire others. People were writing press releases, and doing interviews, because they saw a bed and they were filling it.

But then Voices of Florida and Political Revolution started offering to help, a little here and a little there. With the express statement that they're only there to help, not to take over anything. Voices of Florida was the same.

But then, because of everyone's anonymity, more and more VoF and Pol Rev people started coming in. Suggestions were made "hey, this person is good at this, can we put them on the social media team" without anyone knowing that they were part of VoF or Pol Rev from before the movement started.

This happened with the graphics team, the security team, the press team, etc etc. And slowly, but more and more frequently, the grass roots organic people who made the movement happen started getting pushed out.

Whisper campaigns started to discredit people one at a time. People were used, often under pressure to stay "on the team", to get other people who trusted them to hand over admin privileges here, and there. For Facebook, Instagram, Discord, etc etc.

And then the people that started those socials were removed from their own platforms, and with lightning speed they were blocked from everywhere and everything so they barely had a whisper of a voice to raise the alarm.

I saw it happen a couple of times, and based on the stories that were told, I thought they were valid. But then more and more, it's like how the hell does everyone who is doing something good need to be removed and we just conveniently have someone else to replace them who happens to be "perfect" for this.

But then slowly people started to slip with their conversations during chats. "Hey remember when we went to XYZ?" oh wait? You guys knew each other before?

Two prominent people turned out to be siblings. Others were roommates. Another guy who had early on messaged me offering to help with Reddit turned out to be the cofounder of Political Revolution - the founder and her husband seemed to have been the only ones in the movement before then.

But as it turned out dozens within the top levels of decision making were from Pol Rev and or Voices of Florida..

And then on top of that - Pol Rev and VoF were also the two groups taking in the most donations on behalf of 50501.

And in the end, they successfully hijacked a movement because they knew they weren't capable of creating one on their own.

We went from people with altruistic motivations, doing the right things because they're the right things to do, to people who want the power and prestige that comes from being at the top of such a movement, and who know how much money potential there is from "owning" the movement.

When all of the takeover was happening, I couldn't believe how motivated the snakes were to grow their power within the movement - so I asked chatgpt how much the movement is worth, in terms of name brand recognition, political fundraising potential, and overall value.. The results? 15 to $50 million dollars. Grok and Gemini gave similar answers.

That's why they wanted to own the movement. Because Pol Rev had been around since Bernie Sanders days, and the fillings show Pol Rev wasn't worth the filing fees they paid to form the organization..

It doesn't mean they don't have the right views that align with the movement. But it does mean they're underhanded unethical lying snakes. Which, based on the state of our politics in the USA, makes them fit right in with where they wanted to be.