Conspiracy theorists are generally small business owners or retirees living off investments; people with lots of leisure time to drive themselves nuts. The working class usually doesn't have time to go down these conspiracy rabbit holes (it happens, but it's not the norm)
That's literally multiple people conspiring in secret to achieve an illegal goal.
And it's just not necessary.
We're more alienated and isolated than pretty much any time in history, they really could just tell their base "go arrest your neighbor for woke and await further orders" and they would do it. There's just no need for a conspiracy to manufacture riots, their loyalists will happily kill their neighbors. They can just do this whenever they want.
The cruelty is certainly the point, though, and that contradicts your own conspiracy theory. They aren't trying to manufacture riots per se, they just want to make people suffer. Even if there are no riots they get what they want.
This is exactly like when gun lovers try to say "this isn't the time to discuss gun laws" and "they would have found a way to hurt people regardless". Zero difference.
But actually this is exactly when we should argue about the existence of cars: someone just performed a live demonstration of how dangerous they are in the hands of someone who wants to kill people. Without a car, mass killing would be muchmuch harder and it would also be possible for people to defend themselves or escape the danger. Cars also enable impulse killings in a way knives don't, because carrying a knife has to be premeditated whereas with a car the murder weapon is always readily available.
I guess? But it's also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I'm doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!
But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don't think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we've handed over to our tech overlords.
Over a million people around the world die because of cars every year. The most recent number I found for Canada was 1,998 people.
Let's compare that to knives. The most recent number I found for Canada was 138 people stabbed to death. Globally, 97k. Orders of magnitude in difference.
Most vehicle deaths are accidents, but you can't ignore the fact that cars kill far more people than knives.
I don't like cars, and one of the reasons is because they're extremely deadly and driving is basically the most dangerous thing we do on a regular basis.
But not anything could be used as a mass murder weapon. Killing nine people with a kitchen knife would also be quite hard (technically possible if the attacker gets lucky, but still more likely to result in the attacker dying)
The fact that cars are all potential mass murder weapons isn't my primary reason for wanting to ban cars, but it's totally a reason.
Also, let's not forget the human rights abuses of France in Africa. Formal colonialism might have ended, but neocolonialism continues. France continues to reap the natural resources and exploit the labor of its "former" colonies. Although the recent government changes in the Sahel region might finally kick France out of Africa, and then we'll see how much they respect human rights.
Also? Let's not ignore the way asylum seekers are being treated throughout the rest of Europe.
But maybe you don't care about that either. They're not white, after all.
It's not the world that's giving Israel unlimited weapons. It's this shithole country. We are to blame. We aren't just letting this happen, we are making it happen. Our fault.
Also the world only "let it happen" because if anyone tried to stop Israel the United States would attack them. But they aren't directly funding and supporting the genocide the same way we are. It's one thing to let the US do what it wants, it's quite another to directly support it. And we do. It's our labor, our taxes, and our obedience that allows this to continue.
And this isn't the first time. We killed a million people in Iraq and we destroyed Libya and Syria and Afghanistan and Yemen.
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Conspiracy theorists are generally small business owners or retirees living off investments; people with lots of leisure time to drive themselves nuts. The working class usually doesn't have time to go down these conspiracy rabbit holes (it happens, but it's not the norm)