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Currently it seems like there is a highly improbable but mathematically possible outcome where the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois form a government. Canada gets to be the 51st state and Quebec gets to be the 52nd state. 💀
Let’s get that last seat! edit: typos
How long ago was that? If you did that to someone younger now, who hasn’t heard of it, they would probably believe you without asking if it was real. The fact Iran-Contra is real is neither here nor there. What’s changed is how people engage with conspiracy theories. We should want people to think critically and ask for evidence.
People already dismissed conspiracy theories in general. I’m old enough to remember a time when conspiracism was a fringe belief system back in the 90’s and 2000’s when I was a kid.
The right-wing infosphere has normalized conspiracism. Fox News got people to believe there was a conspiracy where there was none so the Republicans could enact the equivalent of a conspiracy in broad daylight. TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, is the go to accusation for the MAGA movement against their opposition. Calling people conspiracy theorists would probably cause a bit of cognitive dissonance for Republican voters.
Some conspiracies do exist, and those who are part of them ALWAYS deny them.
All kinds of people deny conspiracy theories usually because of the lack of evidence and attempts at grifting. Trump never denies involvement in Jan 6th, he mostly lies about the nature of the attack on the capital. He intentionally mischaracterizes the attack as peaceful despite the deaths.
Has Putin lost any support for all the defenestration and underwear poisoning? People used to think dictators would lose support if dictators killed people in the street. The truth is if you control the narrative you can get away with killing people and if you don’t you can’t get away with doing nothing wrong.
I’m going to fast forward through the fact that the entirety of the above comment was full of nothing but baseless conspiracy theories pretending that they aren’t conspiracy theories and that some other conspiracy theories are the actual conspiracy theories. Own it.
I’m fast forwarding because the comment has completely missed my argument’s actual point.
So I live in a world where the rich and the powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders.
My argument’s position is not that governments couldn’t do this in theory. My argument’s position is that they have no reason to do this in practice. They don’t need to make our deaths look like suicides to kill us. They can kill us.
They can kill us and lose no support whatsoever in a fair and free election. And it’s way easier than covering it up, because they can use the investigations as a talking point in their rallies without the downside of consequences because there are no consequences. The people still think it’s true because they are trapped in information silos. And they all accuse everyone else of having TDS, Trump derangement syndrome. edit: typos
this is the language of the powerful this is how they communicate to us not to resist and blow the whistle.
So I live in a world where the rich and the powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders.
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.
Critical thinking is a skill. Anyone can learn it. We can measure a person’s ability by giving them tests and throwing a wide array of problems at them.
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?
how many more of them are you going to watch die before you rise from your chair?
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.
You are serving their agenda by sowing doubt.
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.
So I live in a world where the rich and the powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders.
Conspiracy theorists live in a world where the rich and powerful can commit whatever crimes they want and be elected world leaders and then vengefully kill their accusers, but make it look like a suicide for some reason.
Seems like the same thing with extra steps. Why do people think they would want or need to do the extra steps?
The MAGA movement is a cult. Don Jr, the eldest son of the cult leader, is telling the other cultists this author is excommunicated from the cult. Thus the cultists know to ignore anything relating to this topic and can continue their blind devotion in peace.
That’s how it should be. In the US, we need to outlaw insider trading for elected officials. This is a known issue, based on the evidence we have. There’s no reason to engage in any conspiracism at all.
Well no. Actually we aren’t supposed to trust the government. That’s why we have (in theory) a system of checks and balances.
That’s a conflation of two separate things. The checks and balances are for the different branches of government against each other and not we the people against the government.
This idea that the population should have a general and perpetual distrust of their government no matter what is conspiracy theory logic.
We should base trust and distrust on evidence.
Governments are comprised of people. Like any other people they should be judged on their actions. Blanket statements about distrusting governments and politicians no matter what they actually do is no different than distrusting science and experts. It’s all part of how we got here.
Look through my comment history. I want my fat check. Who is paying me for my hot takes and arguments?
Also, an ad hominem in response to a request for evidence and refutation of your argument’s central point? That’s not convincing anyone.
That said, the real tragedy is how any family and friends surviving her have to watch her death get instantly politicized.
Yes, this is the problem with pretending there is any chance of a conspiracy being here. This is anger that should be directed at the healthcare system.
The problem is simple. We’ll never actually know.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. It’s not on me to prove a negative. The evidence we do have suggests she died from an underlying medical condition. That’s what we know, right now. If you want to support a different theory find some evidence to support it.
And, for all your very eloquent arguments, the fuckwits at the top are kinda, well, fucking idiots, so no, the fact she isn’t a very logical target does not provide a convincing argument against foul play.
It does though. By your argument’s reasoning, they cannot be so dumb to have chosen her as a target and so smart to have covered it up. If they were smart enough cover it up they would never have picked her in the first place and would definitely have gone for these federal judges. But since SCOTUS is stacked and they think they can ignore the courts they don’t seem to feel the need.
In fact, the painted turd pretending to run the show clearly has a revenge fetish.
It’s not clear that she had anything to do with any of Trump’s cases. Her wiki page lists these four:
Prosecution of an MS-13 leader for multiple murders.[6]
Indictments against Russian nationals for operating illicit cryptocurrency exchanges.[7]
Historic war crimes charges against Russian soldiers for actions in Ukraine.[8]
Israeli retaliation leak: Conviction of a former CIA analyst for leaking classified information.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Aber
This administration isn’t capable of covering up a murder this convincingly and she isn’t even the kind of person Trump would want revenge against. She did nothing against him personally, which is his primary concern. edit: typo
I know. That’s my entire argument. She voluntarily stepped down in January, there is no conspiracy here.
TLDR The point of killing people at this stage is to remove obstacles to the fascist administration. A person who resigned on inauguration day isn’t an obstacle.
I do not get where the users commenting about conspiracies and upvoting them are coming from with this line of reasoning. US doctors are notoriously bad at diagnosing women’s health problems as they are trained on almost exclusively male patients.
It’s not a conspiracy. We are overpaying for the worst healthcare system in developed countries. The healthcare system is killing us.
Not to mention this month’s bombing operation in Yemen was leaked to the Atlantic via the chief editor being invited to the Signal group. This administration doesn’t have the wherewithal to target people who resigned voluntarily or the ability to keep it secret in real time.
This person resigned. That’s what the fascists want. They want everyone who disagrees with them to exit the government so they can replace them with loyalists. Her resignation is not some bold act of resistance, it was more of the same, complying in advance.
If a person stays in their position, openly defies the administration, appeals illegal attempts to have her removed, and then is killed that’s when we all need to be pointing out a potential conspiracy.
This person got out of the way for fascists and then died because she was receiving substandard care for a known health condition because Republicans have been allowed to privatize everything at our expense for decades.
She did great work as an US attorney. But she didn’t provide any resistance to the incoming administration. The bulk of meaningful resistance from inside the government has been from federal judges. These federal judges are the only ones would even merit this kind of treatment. They are the ones whose court orders are slowing down this administration.
The Trump administration has already ignored one judge’s order to turn around planes to El Salvador. The Trump administration is trying to appeal to the Supreme Court to get these court orders overturned. If that doesn’t work they will likely ignore them.
In fact, the Trump administration wants to remove universal injunction all together, so the courts will lose a crucial check on the executive branch.
https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/03/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-step-in-on-birthright-citizenship/
Harris characterized the district courts’ orders in the three birthright citizenship cases as “part of a broader trend.” Since Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, she complained, “district courts have repeatedly issued orders that superintend the internal operations of the Executive Branch by prohibiting the formulation of new policies.” But “[y]ears of experience have shown that the Executive Branch cannot properly perform its functions if any judge anywhere can enjoin every presidential action everywhere. The sooner universal injunctions are ‘eliminated root and branch,’” she concluded, “the better.”
These federal judges are the people this administration would want killed because they are actively resisting the fascists in an impactful way. And they probably won’t bother to kill any judges in the short term. If the Supreme Court doesn’t make this problem go away the fascists will ignore the courts. edit: typos
Netanyahu’s goals are to deny Palestinian statehood and form a greater Israel. He does not care about the hostages.
Iran also sold drones to Russia and have been a longer ally than Israel. But I guess that doesn’t really matter to dictatorships. Russia doesn’t really need Iran anymore now that they have Israel and the US.
Yeah, but I would think the Iranian leadership would rather have the US at their beck and call than as an enemy trying to wipe them off the face of the Earth no?
edit: It probably wasn’t up to Iran. Russia could be backstabbing them for the shiny new toy that is a fascist Israel.
“The Trump administration and the White House were consulted by the Israelis on their attacks on Gaza tonight and as President Trump has made clear to Hamas, the Houthis, Iran - all those who seek to terrorise not just Israel but the United States of America will see a price to pay,” Leavitt said.
“All hell will break loose and all of the terrorists in the Middle East - the Houthis, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iranian-backed terror proxies and Iran themselves - should take President Trump very seriously when he says he is not afraid to stand for law-abiding people.”
I figured Trump would want to make peace with Iran since they’re also a Russian ally. At some point I guess you have to choose and we’re already too in deep with Israel to be neutral. So Trump will be supporting the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians and war to form a greater Israel against Iran and its proxies. That’s awful, for a bit there I thought we might have accidentally allied with everyone in the Middle East. edit: added quotes
That’s why I said highly improbable. But if they became states it would be the end of Canadian politics. It would be all American politics at that point. edit: typo