With the Helldivers 2 community hitting a major in-game milestone today—the total defeat of the robot enemy faction—I'm seeing the Discourse on fascist satire pop up ever-closer to my personal circle. So, hey, let's put down my 2p and see what happens. Putting it under a cut as a pseudo-CW for folks, 'cuz like, yeah, this can get exhausting. No tags 'cuz I'd rather this be discovered by people with close-to-my beliefs than have it hot dropped into the Discourse directly.

Semi-relatedly, more folks should read this 2016 study on how & why people change their minds on r/ChangeMyView, especially section 5.1 ("Stylistic features for open-mindedness"). If you don't wanna wade through the academic vibes, the Washington Post wrote a decent digest of the article.