[Antoninus]

It, and its variants, work when the victims are willing to sit and listen for a significant period of time.

I'm confident it's been adapted for use on fora like FR where people read and debate for hours. We're much too attractive an audience for the Left to simply ignore. And as they are much more inclined to be dishonest, they have no problem pretending to espouse views they don't actually hold on some issues, just to be able to rant on a given pet issue.

[RightWhale]

Supposedly it is a new, high power management technique, but I will tell you that I have seen apprentice peanut vendors on the streets of Istambul use the technique with apparent success.