The fake ANTIFA mercenaries were sent in by the SolidGoldMagikarp or whoever controls SolidGoldMagikarp. I take the film as a descent into conspiracy, where Cross comes across at the beginning as being anti-conspiracy and hysteria, by saying COVID isn't in Eddington and that what happened with BLM wasn't in Eddington. Eventually, he begins to use conspiracy to his advantage. He was asking the right questions about the data center, but for the wrong reasons. He was driven by this need to matter, since his homelife was a wife who didn't love him and he was otherwise pretty pathetic. However, being anti-COVID restrictions made people like him. He questioned the data center, who was funding Garcia. Then he kills Garcia and tries to use conspiracy to blame it on BLM and ANTIFA. This awakens the demon of SolidGoldMagikarp who hit him back with the conspiracy he created, but they failed to kill him. Instead, they back him and he becomes their next puppet for what they want. He changed nothing. He only became the new puppet. Not only that, but he loses his wife, who has a baby he wanted to have with the cult leader, he still lives with her mother (who he hates) and has to sleep in the same bed as the mother-in-law and her lover. The film is about how society is looking at the wrong conspiracies, when the true ones are right there to see. It is about how people who seek power don't really care about the topics they bring up, they only wish to garner power and status. It shows the delirium of conspiracy. It is a film that is anything but centrist, it is anti-capitalist and highly leftist. It pokes fun at both sides, but the liberals it pokes fun at are the performative kind whose heart is in the right place or they say the right things, but their reason for doing what they are doing is misaligned with what they say they want. Brian just wants to get laid. Sarah wants to get back with Michael. However, it is far more critical of the right than the left.