Because the government can’t afford a book of matches?
Like the “Jewish space lasers” bullshit that Margarine Traitor Greed mentioned.
Jews won’t use their space lasers to help Ukraine because Ukraine is full of Nazis. /s
But that would put the US into direct conflict with Russia. Military lasers are definitely a thing
They don’t exist at the magnitude you think. We don’t have space lasers that can attack ground targets yet and probably never will. At best they can jam certain systems like drones.
I know this will fall on deaf ears, but the best thing we can do is stop amplifying these people by posting these stories and upvoting them.
Everything is a conspiracy since the internet became a “news” source
I think the same people would think the same stuff. Just now they travel faster and wider.
I think bouncing ideas off of each other on social media does drive them further into the rabbit hole, and leads them to ideas they might not have gotten to otherwise.
One person starts saying things as a joke or as a griefer and people run with it.
And when they finally do determine the cause, nobody will ever believe them.
Edit I want to say too, that photo is heartbreaking. It’s NOT a black and white photo. I zoomed in on a little spot of red… it was a stop sign.
There are reports that it was downed power lines. It was super windy which is what also caused it to move so rapidly and with such ferocity.