How to link passages in if statements?

I have text thats supposed to display if the player did some specific choice earlier in the game, and in more than a few instances the text that's to be displayed should be a link.

For example, I have this as dialogue an NPC can say to the player:

(if: $goodres >= 0 and $badres is 0)[Well, you're pretty ok so far... (if: $count is true)[and you did count all those buttons...] ok, I think I'm permitted to show you more information.]

I have another if statement that I want to display a passage link if the above count variable is true, but no matter what I try out, it always shows it, regardless of whether or not the variable is true (it passes the badres check, though):

(if: $badres > 1)["No." 

[[Come on, dude.]]

(if: $count is true)[[Does the fact that I counted those buttons mean nothing to you?]]]

I've messed with order of statements and number of brackets, but nothing has helped. I'm still new to programming in this, so I'm sure I've missed something small.