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This is part of that skillset, you understand subtext? this is the language of the powerful this is how they communicate to us not to resist and blow the whistle. You are serving their agenda by sowing doubt. Whistleblowers are ordinary people that have somehow accessed the deep courage to speak out when you or I would look the other way or say a thing is "someone else's job". These people are heroes; how many more of them are you going to watch die before you rise from your chair?
They could have this person killed and claim credit for it and still get elected. Trump publicly ordered a mob to descend on the capital and they killed cops. Now he's president again.
Trump isn't just being facetious when he says could get away with shooting someone in public and not lose a single supporter. He is largely correct. The bulk of his supporters are people in the MAGA cult who blindly believe in any conspiracy theory they see on facebook. They would either not believe he did it or if he did that it was justified.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-fifth-avenue-comment/
So let's continue to engage in some critical thinking.
What are the rich and powerful communicating by jumping through these extra hoops? That they can have us killed but only if they make it look like a suicide?
If it turns out that this person or a revelation that all the people who conspiracy theorists assert were murdered were to come to light tomorrow do you think anything would change? We know who Trump is. We know who many of these powerful people are. We keep electing them. There has been no up rising despite knowing about their connection to Epstein and other criminal activities.
I'm arguing in favor of the current official narrative so if anything I'm sowing trust, but I digress. What are they gaining they don't already have by me arguing this? If a government did this they won't be able to keep it a secret for long, see the recent Signal chats, and they won't face the blow back they deserve, see the last decade of history.
What's happened here is that reality is outpacing the conspiracy's capacity to be disconcerting and distressing. Conspiracy takes after narrative. This idea that powerful elites need to hide their crimes to maintain power is almost comforting. There's a way for good to defeat evil that elites have to respect or face consequences. Unlike in narrative where the revealing of a truth is met by public outcry and backlash, in reality the truth is met with a doubling down on candidates and deeply held beliefs no matter how awful they are.