Well isn’t that interesting

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The 2020s have been interesting, to say the least. We’ve seen plenty of riots, as well as public health officials who berated us for going to church deciding that riots were different and therefore acceptable.

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But a tweet on X really kind of reminded me of a simple fact:

This is actually an interesting point. We saw Tesla dealerships attacked because of DOGE’s work, which shouldn’t make a lot of sense if they were going after waste, but then USAID got defunded and no more riots. SPLC indicted and no more riots. ActBlue being looked into and no more riots.

Now, I was never one for conspiracy theories, but when the conspiracy theorists started batting somewhere near a thousand, I started listening a bit more. I won’t say this is definitive proof that these entities were funding riots, and it’s entirely possible, even likely, that any causation between them and the unrest was either unintentional or, at least, indirect.

But I can’t really rule out the possibility that they created the unrest specifically to gain a political advantage.

Terrorism doesn’t work to change politics. People feel more righteous standing up against terrorism.

Riots, though, are terrorism with the rough edges filed off. It’s still violence designed to attack civilian targets to create a political statement. It’s just on a different scale.

And people respond to riots differently. With it being called “the voice of the unheard,” it’s excused. They forget that MLK bookended that sentence with a renewed call for non-violence and a condemnation of riots in general.

Still, it gets results…but only to a point.

Yet the idea that donations to organizations that were made, often in good faith, that the organizations would do good work within the law, were potentially repurposed for things like funding the very antisemitism the SPLC was created to fight is disgusting.

Only topping it is that our tax dollars were seemingly used for the exact same purpose.

In my mind, there is no greater evidence of our system’s failure than in the fact that USAID seems to have done this to any degree, and yet it was upheld as virtuous. Hell, the best-case reading of USAID’s mission was to bribe foreign countries and activists as a means to create unrest there .

To believe they’d never stoop to doing so here is beyond stupid.

And that’s upsetting for me because I want to believe better of my government. Despite being an offspring of Agent Orange and seeing the government’s efforts to pretend they weren’t responsible for my mother’s miscarriages, my ADHD and dyslexia, or my daughter’s autism. I know better.

I just don’t want to.

The United States of America is the greatest nation on the planet. I stand by that and will until my dying day unless something drastic happens, which I don’t expect.

But while our country is magnificent, our government is an instrument of evil, regardless of who is sitting in the Oval Office. The connection between an end to funding and a sudden end to riots as of this far into the year—there’s still time, admittedly—is too interesting for me to ignore.

It’s way too likely that someone in power funneled money to keep the riots going, to create the situations that would force the kind of change they wanted as often as it could.

Were Tesla dealerships burned because Musk threatened their slush funds? Probably. And the riots over George Floyd, which took place in almost every major city despite no one there having anything to do with George Floyd’s arrest, really makes a lot more sense when you think about leftist groups funding them.

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And I hate it.

I hate it with a burning passion because, even if it’s somehow all just coincidence, I can no longer pretend that coincidence is the easiest, most likely answer.

Not anymore.

And I loathe every person who contributed to destroying that naive faith I had in a system that, frankly, never deserved it.

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