it's absolutely true that government has been grossly misused and must never be thought of as perfect. we should constantly debate and iterate on our laws.

it is also true that it is one of the best possible forces to do good in the world: food security, healthcare. and i wish for its capacity to do good to be expanded.

I agree with almost all this list, but Building 7 pisses me off a bit

WhY dId BuIlDiNg 7 cOlLaPsE?

Because two of the tallest buildings in the world collapsed right next to it, causing structural damage that lead to it's collapse.

BuT iT lOoKs LiKe A DeMoLiTiOn.

What do you think structural failure is meant to look like? Do you think it's meant to look like Jenga bricks falling over? Like do you really think two of the largest buildings in the world collapsing next to a comparatively small building like that is going to do nothing?

The reason why you don't see surrounding buildings damaged when they're demolishing something like a British Tower-block is because they time the explosions precisely, shore up anything that might get damaged and evacuate the area. Do you really think the same thing would happen if two of the world's largest towers had their floors slam down on each other like a squeezebox, and then had the cores collapse right next to them? Do you, hand on heart, think a building right next to that happening, wouldn't suffer structural damage?

Wanna know something about 9/11? If the US government wanted to do a false flag, they wouldn't fucking bother doing some long winded scheme involving thermite or explosives or missiles disguised perfectly as planes that can be debunked by people who think Occam is a razor company. They would just like whatever of the 101 major terror plots that are being planned against the US that they know about happen. Why spend millions of dollars doing it yourself when you can just fucking let the guy in Afghanistan and his buddies that you have been watching for a decade and change do what they have been planning.

That, or, and this is something people might not consider, as cruel, power hungry, and sociopathic as the world's governments may be, they are also made up of people, some of those people fuck up, some of those people are morons. The idea that the everpresent They, (The Enby that controls the world) is hypercompetant and hyperintelegent is just something people believe to feel safer when they trust the government, and more powerful when they don't.

Telecommunications Act

Copyright extensions

DMCA

SAVE Act

KOSA

War on drugs

War on terror

Asking if you trust the government is a stupid loaded question. No one trusts the government. You don't trust a loaded gun, but it's the best tool to have in your hand if someone's trying to kill you. Government isn't something you trust, it's a tool that might be the best for some jobs.

The smart ones don't need wikipedia to know that authority should be distrusted.

You just need one bad teacher or school admin and you should be able to figure out why you should be skeptical of all authorities, including your parents. (They could poison your food or even stab you in your sleep... so, stay alert kids, stay on guard at night 👀)

(Okay that last part I'm just half-kidding... but your parents could technically do it and you have no defense against that... 👀)

That is a rather short list.

This is all American stuff. What about British, German, French, Russian, Japanese, Chinese atrocities and coverups? God knows there are terrible secrets along them all.

Well, yes, you shouldn't trust the US government or any other government out of the control of its people.

One of these things is not like the others

It’s not just those things that happened. It’s that everyone involved should have been arrested and incarcerated but it didn’t happen.

COINTELPRO

Don't forget about...

Agent Orange
Camp Lejeune
Vietnam Vets exposed to dirty medical equipment

Had neighbors and relatives that have been effected or died from all of these.

Government denied all wrong doing to all of these until private groups forced them to provide compensation.

PRISM

Also the entirety of the last 30 years of us politics

What about citizens united?