Literally yes. I remember towards the end of my education in business school we were learning how to consolidate financial reports for multiple entities where one owned or had a significant investment in the others. Long story short, we looked at real corporations and it was like a fucking matryoshka doll of companies owning equity in other companies, who own their own subordinate companies and on and on, until by the end you’re left guessing where the actual real value is even coming from.

My personal favorite is when libs frame something beneficial the Chinese government does as “bribing/brainwashing the public.” Like no dude that’s just a functioning social system lmao.

“Actually when the city fills the pothole on my street it’s authoritian strong-manning to try and brainwash me into liking them.”

Yeah I’ve been keeping tabs on that sub since it’s creation and it’s just so insane what will get said in that sub lol. Like at this point it’s basically exclusively reactionaries that post there, but a few weeks ago it was more of a mix of people. You’d get comments like “I’m not really a fan of how they changed Character’s story” and someone else would reply “It’s because woke feminists have hijacked our perfect story to make every male character unlikeable and stupid and frankly I’m expecting them to have Egwene be the Dragon and peg Rand while crushing his balls under 6 inch platform heels because thats what woke fascist feminists do. Also everything is gay and the characters should all be white or something.”

As you said, truly a deranged community.

I always remember this liz rant whenever I think back to how journalists left assange out to rot.