Fires don't start without a spark.

I think the animosity is stupid too, but xyle's angle to recruit has certainly benefited from telling his members they will hit laf for multiple sets until they quit. I've used that as a recruiting tool as well. When we did it, we had well over 60 so it's plainly a good tool to, as you say, recruit "anyone" over quality. Hell, even serpenter was an elder for a set lol. It totally works.

I don't truthfully think he is doing it from a bad place. He probably honestly harbors little to no animosity toward laf after decades of lapdogging but was just trying to appeal to whatever he could to get a higher membership number. Hitting laf for eternity always seems to make a giant ass war. Hahaha. Unfortunately when you do that you get a bunch of wild rogue members. Largely non-sof types. Such was the case when elders did the same. But you lose all credibility and just become a toxic personality with an uncontrollable membership.

That's why I'm interested to see what happens going forward.