Right, so in your version of this world, who is the fascist? Germany?

So for me it comes down to how long they stick to that narrative before admitting that maybe we weren’t exaggerating.

They usually never do. Just at some point they start declaring they always thought so, too.

They exist. They’re just not recognized as comedians by those not in the cult because normal people don’t see kicking down as humor.

It’s less uneducated thinking and more “here’s a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others”.

That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.

That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It’s a little like saying “people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer” while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people’s behaviour, namely smoking.

The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.

And just like that we’re now all focused on the couple of (quite frankly) idiots that are burning consumers’ Teslas instead of the unsold ones at dealerships. Again. Just like every discussion of a protest is not about the tens of thousands of people protesting but about the 10 people looting.

Looks like the attempt to control the narrative is working as expected.