@inquiline On a more serious note, I believe that the City of Los Angeles is run by and for a small group of identifiable commercial property owners and two of its main functions are (a) creation and control of an environment hospitable to the forcible exploitation of our labor and (b) the direct upwards transfer of wealth to the (mostly local) ruling class.
On the other hand this isn't really a conspiracy theory since no literal conspiracy is necessary to explain it.
@inquiline The rash of fires in low income housing all over Portland in the 1990s was meant to both displace longtime residents and benefit developers.
It also meant the brother of our fire chief got a lot of coincidental business at his fire suppression company. Funny how people see a gigantic fire and get real motivated.
Furthermore, Black church property is valuable enough to attract bad actors to gentrifying neighborhoods, and those unsolved arsons remain that way.
@YakyuNightOwl@inquiline
Call me a nutter but there are definitely landlords burning their own properties in the Bay Area. One Oakland landlord was caught arranging an arson attack on an inhabited building in 2011. He did two years, now he's developing luxury condos. In SF we call the atrocity "Hawk Louing" a property, after landlord Hawk Lou, who burned the large rent-controlled apartment building he owned in the Mission in 2015, killing one and displacing dozens. He's now trying to develop the property into a luxury condo high-rise
@inquiline Rich assholes invented the Illuminati (loosely based on the existing Illuminati which was basically a bunch of bohemian dilettantes trying to get abortion pills for Adam Weishaupt) to explain away the French revolution because they didn't want to believe, much less have it getting around, that common people can revolt without instructions from the upper classes
@inquiline CIA predicted how destructive 'postmodern' theory and 'pluralistic' art scenes would be for Western left/orthodox Marxism and sponsored it. A few decades later nobody is into class struggle but diversity in Raytheon's boardroom.
@inquiline Great question! None spring to mind, but in general i do sometimes ponder how us critical left thinkers also routinely critique “the system”, but differently (we claim). And how sometimes we just opt for completely supporting establishment 💯, eg covid/Vaccination. Still figuring out how the 3 positions relate; guess changing all the time.
Btw really enjoyed this Jon Ronson podcast series on origins of culture wars and #ConspiracyTheories in US!
@inquiline the push for 5g was mainly driven by a desire for remote "telemigrant" labour à la sleep dealer, and robots will primarily be operated by under-the-api workers in third-world countries https://youtu.be/nbJGQl-dJ6c
@inquiline (my basis for this is that 5g point to point speeds are way higher than you need for even stupidly high-res video, and also it's already been piloted: https://youtu.be/v9-Pkn7nEN4 )
@doriantaylor@inquiline
This ad is so next level jaw dropping BS
(I understand that your post wasn't an endorsement)
5G is a "last" mile technic, it being faster (mainly bandwidth) doesn't primarily effect the latency. Especially not to South Korea, were most part of the transmission are optic fiber.
Global Ping Statistics from Seoul to Berlin is ~ 240ms.
And the roughly 10000km distance means the physical limit by the speed of light is 30ms
Not sure how 5G will break the law of physics to reach the 20ms they promise 🤬
@inquiline Apparently the powerful have already made contact with the aliens and sold them the planet. The contract would specify that it must be delivered with 5 degrees more temperature and without inhabitants.
It is not really a conspiracy theory but the only explanation for his decisions.
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