askchapo

It started with Roswell. They were obviously testing classified aircraft, but because a bunch of people thought aliens were involved, they ran with it so every conspiratorial plot has two narratives: the official narrative where there's nothing suspicious (it was a weather balloon) and the official crank narrative (it was an alien spacecraft) while the most plausible explanation (it was classified research) gets pushed off the stage by the first two narratives.

You see this with 9/11. There's the official narrative (al-Qaeda hates the US because the US has freedom) and the official crank narrative (the US blew up the towers with a controlled demolition) when there's far more explanations than "the CIA didn't know about al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda didn't know that the CIA didn't know about al-Qaeda" and "the CIA rigged three buildings with explosives."

Hell, they're even trying to do this with Epstein. The official narrative is that Epstein killed himself. The official crank narrative they're trying to push is that uh aktually Epstein didn't die and is still alive. Both narratives take up space for what actually happened, which is that US intelligence liquidated an asset when the asset outlived their usefulness and became a liability.