The thumbnail makes it look like some teriyaki chicken on a griddle.
Anecdotally I am intelligent and reasonable, but when I was younger around when 9/11 happened I couldn't wrap my head around why someone would do what they did, it was to me incomprehensible, irrational, my world view couldn't account for what happened. In that null space conspiracy theories created plausible explanations for my young and impressionable mind to latch onto.
I soon began questioning authority in general, the nationalized narratives provided were clearly propagandized, and in that wake of dissonance real conspiracies, like the war on drugs, started to add credibility to other outlandish ones. It is intelligent to question, and even entertain that which is irrational from time to time, if not just to test the waters, so to speak.
How else will I power my giant unnecessarily sized man-truck for men?
Imagine if all these saber rattlers did so for democracy and corporate accountability. Republicans are literally in bed with corporations right now if they can't take their tough guy act and apply it to the obvious elephant in the room.
Been reading Noam Chomsky, and the theme of democratic movements being quelled, one might say mysteriously, is a common global theme. Reddit was that social democracy for a time.
I'm not suggesting that this kind of timing with Reddit might disrupt one of the largest democratic platforms by converting it into a publicly traded company, but Reddit is definitely giving the same kind of vibes the United States gave when they installed puppet democracies in Latin America.