The installment of kleptocracy was meticulously planned in advance, despite Trump making it look chaotic. He creates chaos, but behind the scenes the plan is implemented, by people that are loyal-to-death MAGA (the procedures selected out anyone with a modicum of honesty). The tech oligarchs vowed obedience to Trump. There has been an endless stream of sane-washing, false balance, getting the right nut jobs in the right places, buying twitter, buying the Supreme Court etc. With god speed they shook out science and institutions, to ensure critical people are gone. This might remind you something about history, and that might trigger the wrong response from you.

Content on social networks is suppressed, eg pro-Ukraine voices has been silenced for a long time now on Twitter. Then suddenly problems with tags on other social networks. Content disappears. Bezos sinks on his knees to save his enterprises.

It has been an enormous project, with many not knowing they worked for it.

It is not insane to imagine that the most influential forum on tech incubation, the breeding ground, is actively being undermined to reach a political and moral understanding of issues that might result in a counter movement.

There can be a group of some genuinely brainwashed people that take this as their identity, sure, but then still. All it tells is that the social system here is politically exploited. Don't tell me that side would absolutely not do that.