Many just straight up don’t believe you when you tell or even show them. They think you’re brainwashed so they don’t take you seriously. They just believe Big Brother loves them and would never lie to them.

Also, they won’t be cheaper.

like if the Onion was written by a bunch of bootlickers.

This is exactly what it is. Seth Dillon was also the guy who recruited the Libs of TikTok lady, if memory serves.

Clicked the link and got a banner for a movie trailer which mocks the idea that January 6 was violent.

I’m stealing that analogy, thank you very much.

I’d generalize it a bit to say, fascism is the immune system of any system built on bad principles that’s collapsing under the weight of its own internal contradictions. The obvious decay then creates a space psychos and grifters to pose as faux saviors and gain power by scamming people into something they pretend is a solution but is actually a death cult.

It is. That’s why the corporate fascists are trying to demonize and dismantle it. There’s a reason Musk started with the ones that were investigating his companies.

Although keeping it in check will likely require the authorities to obey the findings of these agencies. They’ll be getting conflicting orders from the MAGA admin. That’s the constitutional crisis in a nutshell — if authorities side with MAGA, then it becomes a coup.