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They're all on a spectrum between flat earth and Epstein didn't off himself, with some clustering at either end

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A few years ago, the "tinfoil hat crowd" had this absurd claim that Ghislaine Maxwell was a reddit powermod:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges...

The article above is from 2020, and later the FBI itself used the user maxwellhill as evidence in Ghislaine's investigation:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qsf6y6/reddit_pos...

This is almost certainly because a member of the public phoned the police/FBI and alleged that GM was /u/maxwellhill, not that it was part of the FBI’s case. Look at the other stuff on the list.

I don’t know if the claim is “absurd” but it appears to be essentially baseless.

The Overton Window shifts,

no matter what the “we always believed and knew” crowd tries to say.

I don't understand the Epstein thing. In particular, I don't know why everyone doesn't agree "Epstein had help offing himself". That's the most natural inference from the evidence I'm aware of, and also satisfies the conspiracist urge for drama. Everyone should be happy with this, but I've hardly ever heard anyone else put it forward. What am I missing?

Wasn't Epstein a conspiracy theory once? Epstein cover up has made me believe that cover ups DO happen, and if this one was covered up, what else has been cover up?

It still is, and it is plainly a true conspiracy. Hence its placement at the top end of the spectrum.

What else has been covered up? Oh boy...

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