I treat weirdos as a canary. The way current policy thinkers operate is similar to the, "let's think of something literally everyone can be against and rename our agenda items as anti-whatever that is to neutralize resistance to it, and accuse any resistance as being for it," whereas this variation is, "let's pick something nobody will defend to test popular tolerance for our new surveillance powers and encroachments on basic freedoms."

These incels aren't a real problem, they are the artifact of someone inventing a problem they can get funding to never actually solve, but get paid indefinitely to manage and use as a platform for other things. It's the entrepreneurship of things literally nobody wants. What clicked is there is a middle cohort who spend significant mental energy trying to align to shifting narratives of power independent of whether they have any meaningful relationship to truth. It has made me quite disagreeable, but I think good men being disagreeable may be the only remaining way out of this cultural mess.