Look at those trees! Unburned! That proves weapons were used and it’s a conspiracy!
Oh, wait, that is a picture of a fire from a decade ago, before any ‘Directed Energy Weapons’ had been trialled. The unburnt trees are standing next to burned out houses in Valparaiso because that’s what happens with urban fires. Wooden houses catch fire easily from being hit by burning embers blown on the wind. But green leaves on living trees don’t catch fire so easily from those embers. Have you ever tried putting green leaves on a bonfire? It might get a bit smoky, but they don’t burn easily. In case you’re in any doubt, you could pick from a list of major fires in the 2010s, and search for images to discover how many of the trees ‘mysteriously escaped’ any of laser beams (which didn’t exist).
The reason a wildfire can burn many trees in a forest, not an urban area, is because the fire can pass through the canopy, so an actual flame passes from tree to tree. Crucial to such wildfires is the amount of dry matter on the forest floor, and the number of dead trees due to disease – as they can catch fire easily. Extremes of heat and cold, dry and wet, as well as the shrinking of forest area due to felling, are all known to increase the number of diseased trees, and therefore the likelihood of localised fires becoming massive wildfires. That is the best explanation for why, globally, forest fires have roughly doubled in the last 20 years. In case you didn’t know it yet, I am writing about these fire dynamics because of the tragic fires in Hawaii. In particular, there is strangely popular theory about the deadly fire in the town of Lahaina. The theory has meant that popular youtubers with massive audiences have chosen to ignore the reasons why forest fires became worse in recent years, and what we could be doing to try to reduce that in future. The conspiracy theory goes like this: the fires are started by Directed Energy Weapons (DEW), to create panic about climate change, and to force cities that resist adoption of ’15-minute smart city’ policies to curb private vehicle use. Some of the conspiracy theories also like to claim that the 15-minute smart cities agendas will curb personal movement rather than just cars (although there have been no such proposals or initiatives). The ‘evidence’ put forward for this view of the fires in Hawaii, includes: the fires only burned properties not trees, that the ashes look weird, boats were burned in the water, there are images of Direct Energy Weapons being used, and that Hawaii is hosting a 15-minute smart cities conference. Writing more than a week later, there are still many videos being widely shared on TikTok and other platforms that make some or all of these claims (see the ‘screen grab’ one of the most popular).
In this essay I will show how not only all of those claims are nonsense, but that the fake video vigilantes for freedom are actually doing the work of the public relations agencies that serve the oil industry and undermine the potential for meaningful social change. They are pretending to their audiences that all we need to do is reveal some bad guys and we will all be safe again. Many people find that more appealing than facing the painful realities of either climate change or our own complicity in increasingly authoritarian societies. I describe this phenomenon as ‘conspiracy porn’ in my book Breaking Together, because it is neither the real thing nor satisfying, so if people like it they tend to seek more of it, rather than living in reality. Not only does that undermine and marginalise serious opposition to selfish elites, it reduces awareness of the need to prepare for a new era of disruption and breakdown. In this essay I will explore the psychology and political impact of conspiracy porn more generally, and what to do about it – without involving censorship by BigTech.
But first, let’s look a bit closer at the Lahaina conspiracies, because not only is it a human tragedy that looks like it might have been avoided with better funded emergency services, it is a good case study in how conspiracy porn works. So, if you are still wondering how the boats off the coast of Lahaina burned in the ocean, there is an obvious answer. Imagine a harbour with burning embers being blown across it. Do you imagine the sea catching fire? Of course not. But the boats will, especially if made of wood (in part or completely). But what about those images of lasers from the sky? Or that conference in Hawaii on smart cities? Let’s look at each in turn.
Laser beams
All the pictures and videos of the beams of Directed Energy Weapons (DEW) hitting Hawaii are fake. There is no debate on that at all, as the DEW beams that are in development, are invisible. That’s whether they are outside the visible spectrum, as infrared beams, or within the spectrum, as lasers. Luckily, the evidence on that is not invisible and anyone who respects their own brain cells can look it up in 5 minutes. Not only will you find debunkings of the actual images by the BBC, but you can also look up information on the weapons themselves to cross check that. If looking things up takes too much time away from watching another conspiracy porn video, instead, we could try remembering when seeing lasers in real life. Think of when you went to a night club, or maybe played laser quest with some drunken friends (or was that just me?). We only see lasers tracing the air when in darkened rooms filled with dry ice. That’s because without tiny aerosol particles in the air from that dry ice, the light has nothing to bounce off. Without it, we only see a dot where the laser lands on a surface. There’s no fun in that!
So, look again at those images that show blockbuster-movie-style laser beams, often in daylight, and even going through clouds, despite how the moisture would dissipate the beams. They’re fakes. We can also look again at those pictures that show beams that must be many metres in width (if they were real, which they are not). There is a reason why lasers aren’t big beams – as they involve lining up the light rays in parallel for a powerful effect. It would be a massive waste of energy to produce a wide beam, as the impact of the weapon depends on the strength of the beam on one spot, not a wide spot, as the intention is to puncture a surface or set fire to it. So those wide beam images are even more fake than the normal fakes. Fake squared!
Smart cities
But what about that 15-minute smart city conference?The conspiracy porn tells us that Hawaii is being burned to the ground because of the globalists’ plan to impose ‘15 minute’ smart cities on the island. The origin of the 15-minute city idea is that local government initiatives could try and ensure people have access to the services they desire within 15 minutes of walking, cycling or using public transport from their homes. If you can’t afford to run a car and are annoyed that your local shops are closing because of that huge out-of-town shopping centre with its big tax breaks and rubbish employment conditions, then hey, you might like some of your council’s new ideas, but doubt their ability to deliver. Instead, they’ll likely put in a pointless one-way system. Or, problematically, they’ll support further surveillance apparatus in their town in preparation for more traffic control initiatives. I am not in favour of more surveillance at all. But the idea that Hawaii is being burned to the ground for this agenda is extremely silly, as I will now explain.
The claim made by the conspiracy porn artists is that a smart city conference is headed to Hawaii. Wow, a conference is going to happen in a location that is one of the world’s leading conference hosts! Is it unusual that a smart city conference is happening there? You too can search ‘smart city conference 2023’ and discover immediately that there is at least one a month all over the world. For years. If every one of those meetings is a coordinated assault on their hosts, that would require a heck of a lot of arson. And can you imagine how much dry ice would be needed to pump into the atmosphere for videos to capture those amazing laser beams (which don’t exist)?
If Hawaii had not hosted a smart city conference it would be more odd than if it did. But let’s imagine for a moment that there is a newly dramatic approach to urban planning that involves burning down a town and murdering many people in the process, just to impose a 15-minute agenda. Why then chose Lahaina? It takes 10 minutes to cycle from one end to the other. The local people of Lahaina didn’t need any encouragement to ‘go local’ and get out of their cars. Everything was local anyway. How can we expect people to know that local information, you might ask? Well, there’s this nifty little app on my phone called Google Maps, and I typed Lahaina into it, before selecting two locations at either end of that town, and choosing the bicycle icon. It said it would take me 10 minutes. I took a screen shot, but consumers of conspiracy porn could even try the app for themselves! But maybe they’ve been told that Google Maps has been hacked to lie to us about the cycling durations in towns on fire 😉
As the video vigilantes like to present themselves as defenders of community and freedom, you might think they would have chosen a more credible reason for an external attack on Hawaii. There was one staring them in the face, as the biggest news in Hawaiian politics in recent years is the separatist movement that wants to break from the USA. That the conspiracy porn artists chose the smart city nonsense suggests that their real political agenda is not community solidarity and freedom. Instead, they are trying to demonise any local government efforts at reducing car usage anywhere in the world. In other words, they are using a disaster in Hawaii but with little interest in either Hawaii or disasters.
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A Balinese premonition
I knew this ‘numbskullery’ was coming, as I had exposure to the power of a good story over climate reality, when talking with my Balinese friends and landlord during the 2016 drought on this Indonesian island (where I now live). It was one of the worst droughts in their history, causing major problems for farmers as well as the water supplies in the main city. The Balinese I talked with blamed the drought on laser pens being shone at the clouds from Chinese-owned luxury resorts, to remove the clouds and keep their guests happy. I always informed them that laser pens are nothing compared to the sun’s rays, and that all the neighbouring islands to Bali were suffering a worse drought despite having very few tourists or luxury resorts. I asked them whether they had heard of the Pacific Ocean current El Nino and the matter of manmade global warming. Most of them said they had, and listened to me explain, but then repeated their belief in the weather modification power of luxury laser pens.
I realised back then that it is appealing to believe that there is a bad group to blame, while we are in the good group, and that we can be safe again if the bad group are revealed to everyone. That kind of story helps people to move from their worry into resentment, from fear into anger.
Choosing the story less painful
The popularity of the Hawaiian fire conspiracies shows just how easy it has become to entertain those people who don’t want to accept the scary reality that climate change increases risks and impacts of all kinds. In addition, the climate situation is one that most of us are partly culpable in creating. Recognising that gives us less chance for self-righteous anger. A similarly painful truth exists on the matter of our rights and freedoms, which is what many consumers of conspiracy porn are rightly concerned with. In Chapter 13 of my book, I explain how Big Tech firms already intentionally distort our perception of what our friends think, by promoting some online content and partially hiding other content. They also surveille our every move, action, and statement. Then there is the international financial sector, which control our means of payment. Never mind central banks, every electronic payment we make requires agreement of a minimum of six companies, each one of which keeps our data. Anti-imperialist groups like Wikileaks, and their payments, have already been blocked, even outside of any legal oversight. Then think about your two-factor authentication. That means your phone company can switch you off from most of your crucial services in an instant. How free is that? But rather than focus on all that, the conspiracy porn artists want us to worry about some do-gooders in local government wanting a few less cars on downtown streets. It requires courage to admit that we have complied with the creation of the apparatus of global tyranny through pervasive surveillance, stealth censorship, psychological manipulation, and the ability to exclude anyone from financial transactions at the extra-legal touch of a button. It’s far easier to become outraged by a video about 15-minute cities, or discussions about a central bank digital currency, and pretend one is a freedom fighter by sharing that video with ‘followers.’
Why is this happening? In a recent speech the Mayor of Glastonbury traced some of the lies about a globalist 15-minute city conspiracy back to the UK’s Tufton Street ‘think tanks’ that are funded by oil industry interests. The mayor, Indra Donfrancesco, is the real deal. As a roads protestor in the 1990s, she was putting her body on the line against the corporations that were trashing communities and landscapes. That’s well before Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, or Russell Brand, had even uttered a syllable against corporate power. It is a tragedy that the more recent discoverers of the need to defend our freedoms from corporate power, including the brave and informed dissidents on Covid-19 policies, have been infiltrated by the ‘public relations’ schemes of Big Oil, via each country’s equivalent of the Tufton Street agencies. For instance, the Covid-19 policy critics at the UK’s Together Declaration have become Tufton Street’s chumps as they now campaign against measures to curb urban air pollution. Freedom for people who can afford to run a car isn’t exactly a revolutionary challenge to power, is it? How about freedom of movement for poorer people who have had their bus service cut? Tufton Street ‘think tanks’ and their chumps couldn’t give two hoots.
Indra explained how you can walk across Glastonbury town in little more than 15 minutes, so the idea that her council would even consider the 15-minute cities agenda was nonsensical. And yet a woman came to a council meeting and gave a speech against that agenda, and the video went viral. In her speech, Sandi Adams revealed her real agenda is against any action on climate change, whether to reduce it or adapt to it. She said that carbon dioxide is natural, exists in low concentrations, and is needed by plants, so the whole climate change agenda must be a hoax. But does something being natural and existing in low concentration determine whether it is a problem or not? Let’s take cyanide as an example. It occurs in nature and is even in the cassava that grow here in Bali. I could eat that as it’s so low in concentration. But if I had cyanide in my blood at 420 parts per million, like we have CO2 in the atmosphere, I’d be dead from cyanide poisoning. Sandi’s ‘logic’ wouldn’t save me. Let’s remember that the CFCs that punched a hole in the ozone layer exist in parts per trillion.
Current climate change is real, partly but significantly manmade, and is already having nasty impacts around the world, as my book explains (start with Chapter 5 if you want to focus on climate). One of those impacts is on the nature and scale of forest fires. How such fires get started is important to find out but is irrelevant to the matter of why they spread so much quicker and further than in previous decades. In the same week as the Hawaiian fires, there were the worst known fires in Canada (see the graph!). Climate change is only one downside of the dominance of the fossil fuel industry in societies worldwide. There are hundreds of thousands of children dying every year from diseases that are a result of incentives that increase urban pollution and encourage politicians to do nothing about it. People caught up in a world defined by conspiracy porn on things like traffic control measures give no attention to this real tragedy.
I realise it’s tough for a self-respecting independent thinker to accept that they slipped up and became a Tufton Street chump. But its pride-swallowing time for such folks. Because the people behind conspiracy porn are serving a bigger agenda than just Big Oil. They are dividing and marginalising opposition to the establishment. Conspiracy porn divides, by making many of the former supporters of politicians like the Mayor of Glastonbury turn against her on false grounds. It marginalises, as other people hear the more whacko views and dismiss all the other criticisms of the establishment and corporate agendas. Therefore, the damage being done by conspiracy porn to real resistance to authoritarian power and to efforts to heal our communities and our relations with the environment is huge. Our communities and our freedoms need better defenders than those producing, promoting, consuming, or excusing, conspiracy porn. That is why the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Gail Bradbrook, has begun pushing back against conspiracy porn in her local town of Stroud, where some brave Covid contrarians have sadly turned into Tufton chumps on climate change.
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Hopium also sells
Unfortunately, this recent phenomenon of Tufton chumpdom amongst dissidents has influenced the celebrity Youtubers, who otherwise did so well with their contrarian reporting on public health, politics and war. They’ll often defend their reticence to recognise climate change as a huge threat, by reminding us that people in authority always say what suits the corporate interest. As if we didn’t know that? The real issue is what the lies actually are. On climate, the corporate-friendly lies were, first, that there was any doubt over the scientific certainty on manmade climate change. Despite the world’s governments agreeing in 1987 that there was a real danger, Big Oil managed to fund the subsequent creation of doubt and confusion. The next corporate friendly lie suited all large corporations and banks. It was that the problem of climate change was something to act upon in a slow and steady way to avoid problems at the end of the century, rather than catastrophic damages in the near term. As I explain in Chapter 3 of my book, the latest corporate friendly lie is that nuclear, clean tech, electrification and carbon capture machines will get us out of the unfolding mess. These latter two lies comprise ‘ecomodernism’ and lead to commentators for the establishment ‘moodsplaining’ to the general public that we need to stay positive and believe it will be sorted if we do as we are told. They are dealing in ‘hopium’ to keep us subdued. Some of them stridently condemn me for my scientifically referenced and cautious criticism of the Covid-19 orthodoxy, while others like climatologist Michael Mann cheer on my censorship. There are factions of capital that benefit from such views: the ones involved in the trillion-dollar industry sectors I have just mentioned.
Addiction to fiction
Both the Tufton Street chumps and the hopium dealers are promoting narratives that are backed by factions of capital. It is clear there are only two narratives that presently have the have the backing of factions of capital, albeit different factions. On the one hand the “it ain’t so bad that technology can’t fix it” narrative is welcomed by big tech, clean tech, and authoritarian centrist governments. So the hopium dealers appear in mainstream media and aren’t censored. On the other hand, the ‘it’s all a hoax’ narrative is promoted by fossil fuel PR agencies, opportunists and entertainers. That is why the conspiracy porn artists get so much backing in alternative media and aren’t censored either. They even claim to be censored when they aren’t. For instance, witness Jordan Peterson raging against a “climate context” note on his youtube videos on climate that have a million views, when any video we ever see on climate has such a context note.
I understand why people fall for either conspiracy porn or hopium. What is more confusing to me is why, when people realise that individuals or channels have sent them bogus content or views, that they keep consuming their content. For instance, faced with a detailed debunking of the Hawaiian fire conspiracy porn, some people I know have ignored all of that to share another video clip of an eyewitness saying something which doesn’t prove anything but can be spun to connect with a conspiracy narrative. An eyewitness claims “these fires were not started naturally”. But who says they were started naturally? A power line falling over isn’t natural. A BBQ isn’t natural. Someone burning down their shop in an insurance scam wouldn’t be natural. Lots of things can start fires other than weapons! I don’t recall anyone claiming our changing climate actually starts a fire in the first place. As I explained earlier, the evidence is that forest fires are made worse by a range of human influences, including, but not only, a changing climate.
Such behaviour suggests an addiction, which could be related to anxiety and trauma. The addiction may be to the feelings one gets from thinking that one belongs to a more ethical group, having resentment towards those that can be blamed, and believing that one can be safe if they are defeated. That suggests the way out of this situation for some people will require a shift in personal consciousness. Perhaps people will only accept the environmental predicament we now face if they can face their own death as something that might be arriving sooner than they had expected. That means being able to be OK about both our increasing vulnerability and, ultimately, not existing (in the way we do when physically alive). That is a big test of our ‘ego transcendence’. Modern secular societies hide away the downsides of identifying so strongly with our bodies and minds. The non-mystical strands of the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam can also encourage ego-affirmation rather than ego-transcendence, by extending the notion of a separate self into an afterlife. Contemporary spiritualities within communities that describe themselves as ‘conscious’ are often focused on ego affirmation, even if mentioning the importance of ego transcendence. That is why so much of their lingo is about self-discovery, mastery and manifestation, and so much of the focus is on how to avoid pain and feel bliss. Instead of that, the more that we can become free from the fear of our non-existence in our current form, the more we can be wise and kind as the world-as-we-know-it unravels around us. Our greater ego transcendence will allow us to develop what I term ‘critical wisdom’ in my book Breaking Together.
One contributor to critical wisdom is greater mindfulness. By being able to observe our thoughts and emotional reactions to those thoughts, we are less likely to respond to stories just because they are ego-affirming. For instance, we could notice our inner emotional reaction to a bit of content (typically a video) and therefore not instinctively believe it because of our inner cravings or aversions for certain feelings about our self, others or the world. We could allow for the possibility that reality is not going to feed our ego-related cravings or aversions. With that spaciousness, rather than an impulsive reaction, we could then consider how we might check the claims and insinuations being made in the video. The fact that elites will continue to seek to manipulate anxious publics is why I dedicated a whole chapter to the need for more of that wisdom and how we can cultivate it. To coincide with this essay, I released the audio version of that chapter for free on soundcloud.
Escaping to truth
There is another understanding of what to do about our predicament than those promoted by different factions of capital. It is the freedom-loving environmentalism I elaborate on in my book. That involves letting go of familiar but failing systems of comfort and security, to begin to find mutually beneficial ways of living with all Life, including each other. Such a freedom-loving response to the breakdown of industrial consumer societies arises from the knowledge that it was the manipulation of hearts and minds that drove such wholescale destruction, and so liberating our true natures is part of the response. It is a perspective that identifies the need for a great reclamation of our power from the corporations, banks and remote state institutions. As I explain in Chapter 12 of Breaking Together, it’s a ‘Great Reclamation’ that we can all take part in, and many people already do, as normal life crumbles around us. If such an environmentalism was back in popular discourse today, then tragedies like the fires in Hawaii would compel us to ask how we can reduce human contribution to future fire hazards and reduce human vulnerability to the rapidly increasing prevalence of fires. We would immediately be asking how the current political-economic system drove this predicament, and how to help each other cope with the difficult emotions that will only increase as the situation for most people becomes more difficult in a changing environment. Such a public dialogue requires that those of us who are sceptical of government and corporate power be well-informed, rather than fed conspiracy porn. Which means the millionaire social media celebrities should risk upsetting their audiences for a few seconds by warning them of the damage being done to our struggles for freedom and healing whenever we fall victim to conspiracy porn.
Back in 2017, I co-wrote a few speeches for the Labour politicians Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell. If I was to don my political speech writer hat again, I’d draft the following for an ecolibertarian politician to describe an alternative narrative to the Tufton chumps and the moodsplainers:
“These are frightening times. Because our environment is changing. And the big corporations and banks that accelerated this crisis are now cashing in on the situation. They lie to us, and to themselves, that they have the answers. They don’t. But we just might, in communities, and with each other.
These are frightening times. Because the regulators and institutions have been captured by the largest corporations. They lie to us, and to themselves, that they have the answers. They don’t. We do, but in communities, and with each other.
These are frightening times. Because our ability to understand each other is interfered with by Big Tech and those that pay them. And because our ability to transact with each other is captured by similarly large corporations. They lie to us, and to themselves, that they are the answer. They aren’t. We are, in communities, and with each other.”
If you agree with me, then you might be wondering what we could do about the situation I’ve described. The conversation can naturally turn to combatting disinformation online. But the issue is much more complicated than that, as so much of the effort against disinformation involves corporates, governments and elites trying shape public awareness in their own interests. That is why many people are now rightly sceptical the factchecking services that are funded by companies and large foundations. Just before I finished this essay, some of the main online factcheckers rightly debunked the stories about Directed Energy Weapons in Hawaii (here and here). But their debunkings were dismissed out of hand by dissident friends of mine who knew how poor those factchecking sites have been on issues like Covid-19 and US politics.
Such scepticism is well-founded. Consider, for instance, the factchecker Poynter. At the time of writing, it still maintained an uncorrected article from November 2020 that implies the New York Post story on the laptop of the son of US President Biden might not be true. Subsequent revelations are that the story was entirely true, that much more concerning information from the laptop has been discussed in the media, and that the FBI successfully pressured Big Tech platforms to censor the story. Now that we know how arbitrary a lot of the censorship has been, what is sinister is that the writers of that ‘factcheck’ encouraged readers to simply trust the censorship as justified: “If a major technology platform is taking action regarding a single story, that should tell you something and should give you pause…” That was written by Katy Byron, the editor and program manager of Poynter’s MediaWise which is “a non-profit project teaching millions of Americans how to sort fact from fiction online.” Seeing their performance on that laptop story, and the lack of corrective action since, it’s clear we have far to go in achieving systems of citizen-led factchecking and debunking, rather than ones that ally with incumbent power. We also need to promote more critical wisdom in each other, which is why I am making my chapter on that free to listen to. But ultimately, the only way to reduce our susceptibility to manipulation is to cultivate our critical wisdom, as described earlier.
I know that long essays by intellectuals like me won’t have much reach. Instead, nearly everyone who has seen the conspiracy porn videos about Hawaii won’t have the chance to change their minds unless a short video is made and circulated as aggressively as the original content. There is a huge need for those kinds of videos.
In the absence of a citizen-led and funded rapid video-making truth-defending network, I’d welcome your help so that more people can at least discover this essay. I was kicked off Twitter and my content is suppressed by Facebook. Therefore, I recommend a couple of things. First, forward this essay to a few people on email or in relevant groups on messaging apps. My second suggestion will take a bit more time. Copy/paste this essay into your own blog or into LinkedIn as an article, and say it was written by Jem, without using my whole name, and then share that link on social media.
As we seek critical wisdom in this time of disruption and derangement, we can pray for the people of Hawaii, for ourselves, everyone and Life on Earth, in the way that was taught by Hawaiian ancestors. It is their simple and powerful prayer, which I recommend offer to all of creation, as I did in my Letter to The Earth: I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.
PS: A short message for conscious folks who have been sharing conspiracy porn.
If you have posted conspiracy porn on Hawaii, then I recommend you copy/paste/edit the following message into one of the many Facebook, Telegram and other groups you are part of.
Here is a message from the author of the free book ‘Breaking Together: a freedom-loving response to collapse’, who has written an essay on the dangers of what he calls ‘conspiracy porn’ on the Hawaii fires:
“DEW are invisible. Most green trees don’t burn down in an urban fire. Lahaina could be cycled across in 10 minutes. All this can be looked up in minutes. Some people prefer a cartoon version of evil as it affirms their ego and distracts from a more painful reality. Are they too proud to realise they have been chumps for falling victim to the psychological operations of big Oil? Just like others fell victim to the narratives of big Pharma? Are they are too selfish to explore what true resistance to globalist agendas involves? Is this really just arising from their addiction to dopamine hits of self-righteous entertainment? A kind of virtue signalling to one’s peers, that excludes more dogged participation in real struggles for liberation, solidarity and community self-reliance? Whatever the motivation, the people who fall for ‘conspiracy porn’ about Hawaii are the enemies of freedom and community. We must challenge them as they help globalists by promoting distracting lies. So if you have shared conspiracy porn on Hawaii, don’t sit on the fence. Don’t just go “oh, well I don’t know anymore, I’ll keep an open mind.” That would be cowardice, plain and simple. If you have helped to undermine clear thinking on what the real threats to our environment and freedom are, and helped recruit more people to the conspiracy porn artists who are trying to manipulate people, then please consider taking responsibility. Thx, Jem www.jembendell.com“
However, it’s probably more impactful to make an Instagram video explaining such stuff. Despite claiming to care about truth and humanity, we know that watching video clips is the extent of many people’s “research” today!
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