Driving out the incels was not the main point of the Lidl alt. The point was to indulge Josh's need to belong to a group he wants to benefit him. This is classic Josh behavior and has been repeated multiple times, establishing a pattern:
- Josh sees a group who he thinks will benefit him
- Josh attempts to ingratiate himself with this group
- Josh attempts to run the group (i.e. driving out members Josh doesn't like)
- Group tells Josh to fuck off
- Josh has a crashout and turns his forum into a personal army harassing the group
He couldn't do this to the radfems/TERFs, because Josh isn't a woman. So what he did was create the Lidl alt. The Manhate Thread (started by Lidl) became the inner circle. Josh got to live out his fantasy of leading a knitting circle of mean girls as their alpha bitch. Josh used this thread to weed out dissidents, not just woman-haters but also radfems who crossed him.
Another motivation is a common trait among the self-loathing, a desire to have other people validate their persecution fantasies. By criticizing himself via Lidl and hearing that echoed by his TERF userbase, he could simultaneously bolster his woe-is-me complex and identify posters for later purges.
>But Lidl Drip is too feminine and fully realized!
Nigger, you're not applying theory of mind. Josh isn't trying to convince you, he's trying to convince TERFs. TERFs have sophisticated mandars because they're from imageboards where men are banned, creating an innate paranoia of male invasion of their safe spaces. Josh hates women with a sufficiently psychotic intensity to have experience infiltrating their imageboards. He knows what they're like better than most.
Biggest issue with this is that Josh appears too low impulse to engage in this kind of long game. But Josh is psychologically invested in the alt. The alt allowed him to play into his own suppressed dysmorphic fantasy he's had for well over a decade. He had the motivation to make it work.
>But "retarded holes" is OOC!
Josh is in his splitting stage with the TERFs after they went against his payment processor monomania. He likely intended to retire the Lidl Drip sock after the CallmeCicada watamelon spat. But this nigger is theatrical. This nigger watches and enjoys BBC teledramas by his own admission. He wanted drama, symbolism. He wanted his radfem alt to end the same way his male feminist arc ended, over the payment processor issue.
Anyway, my prediction is that his next alt will target the soyteens. They're the new ingroup he wants to be part of.