Chuckle-washing serious problems.
Late night comedy show banal-washing serious problems.
Social media addicts "milking the LOL cow" to wash Donald Trump and Elon Musk behaviors.
Joke-washing.
Comedy-washing.
A whole pattern of Surkovian mind-fuck techniques.
Laughter the best mind-fuck.
“Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, year 1985
The deepest faith, the blind faith, the unquestioned faith, that laughter fixes facism. Trump and Surkov exploited that 25 years ago. A very proven Kremlin / Russian methods of population control. Jokes and absurd comedy and surreal humor. People will jump right into your monomyth mind-fuck amusement reality.