By my Senior year of post-Army college I was ripping TPUSA fliers off the bulletin boards in my classes' buildings. It had gone from me seeing something here and there and going "that's... simple logic to manipulate people" to "oh wow, you're not even trying to hide it."
One day in late 2017, on the school's central green space, I see some college kids planting flags in the ground. These are like, small, electrical worker type flags. They're all red, and a LOT have been planted all over the place.
Well I'm always curious to a fault, so I go ask one of them what they're doing. Not like, mad, just wondering in a genuine fashion.
"Each of these flags represents 80,000 people killed by Socialism."
Now I see someone planting a TPUSA yard sign. Yup. Here's where we are.
The guy asks if I had any questions about their installation as he realized I hadn't said much and was just examining the scene. I just asked him to say that again as I feigned being distracted by something.
"Each of these flags represents 80,000 people killed by Socialism."
"Cool, we're done here," I very quickly said, and walked away.
Not sure if this added anything but fuck anyone who turned budding young minds into such robots.