[motohagiography]

I doubt it is a thing anymore, but if you were in a NOC and said, "...there is no cabal." you could expect at least some portion of the people present to turn around and hail, "Long Live The Cabal!" It was a usenet admin shibboleth that I still laugh at every time I hear it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal

[direwolf20]

Narrator: there was, in fact, a cabal

[weare138]

That's just what the cabal wants you to think.