Mine is that we don't have a worldwide shadow government, that there is no master plan that we are being unwittingly steered towards, that what we see is what we get. :my-hero:
Our ruling class rules us with cruelty and stupidity, just like they appear to do. They are rich because they are rich. They are powerful because of the precedence of power. Any exceptions to their origin stories were just a product of churn to find the cruelest most sadistic peasants to uplift to join the ruling class. :bootlicker:
It's the one theory I have that fits known facts and subjective evidence: we are ruled by emotionally stunted and socially malevolent self-destructive idiots that have some semblance of class consciousness but only enough to prevent upsets at their wine parties or their child-violating island vacations. :epstein:
Anti-smoking ads are purposely cringy/stupid because the tobacco companies that pay for them want to make them as ineffective as possible.
On the flip side of that, cigarette smoking made a massive comeback with older Millennials and younger Gen-X with a deliberate and no-longer-secret marketing program that involved handing out cigarettes at hipster-infested coffee clubs (the precursors to Starbucks franchises that completely crushed them over time under pretense of following their mystique) while directly reminding the hipsters that the D.A.R.E. program and other uncool boors said smoking was bad, unhealthy, and so on. The spite mechanism kicked in, and a new wave of smokers was hooked.