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.

manufactured riots come hell or high water. “marshall” law by mid-terms, mark my word.

This conspiracy never makes sense to me.

If they want martial law they can just do it. Just lie and say there are riots, boom. There’s no need to manufacture actual riots.

The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren’t in style anymore.

He didn’t even get a majority. He got a plurality. 49.9%

Canada uses prison labor. They rent out prisoners to private firms for rock bottom wages.

But that’s different, right?

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 much much 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!

Chelsea* Manning

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.

Tariffs and DOGE may be helpful in fixing this.

Tariffs and the doggy department are going to make this even worse lol

You could dab it with a little paint or glue or something.

By this standard, the US is still a democracy. Leaders are still voted into power and that isn’t going to change.

Will they let everyone vote? Obviously not, but you seem to think it’s democracy when only white men can vote so…

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.

I fully support Jewish immigrants becoming Palestinian, just as Fanon supported French people becoming Algerian.

Settlers are not like that. They seek to steal the land and nation for themselves, not join the already existing indigenous nation.

The tool is very relevant when it enables greater amounts of violence.

Killing nine people with your fists is extremely hard and you’d probably die trying. A car, gun, or bomb makes it much easier.

It helps when you reframe math as a puzzle, because then it becomes a game. It’s not interesting unless you make it interesting.

“New Math” kind of tries to do this, although then you run into the problem of parents being unable to help their kids with homework.

We must identify the primary contradiction and struggle against it, not endlessly shift our focus as opportunities arise.

I don’t need perfect allies, but I need my allies to not be fascists or fascist collaborators.

Are Brazil or South Africa any worse than Canada?

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.

Settler-colonialism is horrifying, settler-colonies are founded on genocide and continue to exist through genocide.

You only think your morals aren’t twisted because your morals are exactly what they taught you to think. What you’re saying is horrifying, because what you’re saying boils down to “Hamas does not have a right to resist Israeli occupation.” Fuck that.

Indigenous resistance is justified. Just because settler-colonies use a deputized force of non-combatants as occupation soldiers doesn’t mean that they’re off limits. As Fanon points out, the way settlers redeem themselves is by joining the indigenous resistance.

The world suffers no matter who the president is.

But hopefully this will be the last one.