And there appears to be a very concentrated effort by many elements to distract anyone away from this question, instead attacking or engaging in character assassination or outright smear.

If anything is more suspicious than a post getting 70+ upvotes and skyrocketed to the front page about this user within 25 minutes of being posted by a <1 hour old account, it's the fact that nobody seems to be asking this question.

https://voat.co/v/whatever/3367040/