Sad to say, but 2020 was a dividing line for me. There were those who put the jabs ahead of relationships. I don't know about anyone elses situation, but being betrayed by friends, family, jobs, industries whom you used to trust will cause you to reevaluate your relationships based on self preservation. I can continue to be cordial to people and everything but ultimately feel like I would not trust anyone to not sell me out to the Gestapo if it came down to it.
Tiktok trend. I learned of it from this vid https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nac75ikisaI
Then I might give them the "danger to our democracy"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdCTTE9fy14&pp=ygUYRGFuZ2VyIHRvIG91ciBkZW1vY3JhY3kg
I might start gentle with something familiar to them, like this bit where Conan O'Brien shows how the news is all the same
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dAkxR9T01pw&pp=ygUUY29uYW4gbmV3cyByZXBlYXRpbmc%3D
Perhaps allude to Project Mockingbird
Are you possibly thinking about https://hereistheevidence.com/
They would rather watch their industry die than correct their course. They are the ones that moved on from their audience. If they gave their audience what it wanted then there wouldn't be as much of a problem as there is.
Totally unrelated question: how could one sabotage a quartz mine that, let's say, an evil villain might want to use and who would destroy cities to obtain? jk