>Their discussion almost feels like they know each other. Why is that?
Entangled minds
While it may be cool to claim that we should never attribute to maliciousness what could more readily be attributed to stupidity, a far easier thing to understand is the Urantia Book concept of reflectivity and entanglement of minds. Ever heard that emotions are contagions? That's why people are so scared of things that shape mindsets because they change the way that the contagions operate.
My bet is that we are looking at entanglement via contagion.