• prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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    I had a friend whose dad worked on the v-22 program, knew a number of the engineers and guys who died on the early flights.

    One night while he was “loose” he said that the plane was pretty safe and a lot of accidents are actually a fantastic way to explain the death of people they need to explain the deaths of.

    It’s my favorite conspiracy theory, that these accidents are just battle casualties for things they don’t want to admit. That the v-22 is an “accident farm”

    edit: for the sake of clarity, there is no evidence whatsoever for this at all. It was literally someone talking shit and they could have (and probably were) just been talking nonsense anyways. It’s fun to think of in the way a video game plot is fun.

    I have absolutely no reason to believe this is true, but I like thinking it

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        I’ve literally said from start to finish it’s a wild conspiracy theory with no evidence, I have no reason to believe it’s true nor should anyone who saw what I said.

        And I’ll add some “in case you’re a moron boilerplate” to it

        Though in this scenario I’d be a 3rd party source, as I heard it from a first party. My credibility is suspect as you don’t know how valid my claim is anyways.

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          And I’ll add some “in case you’re a moron boilerplate” to it

          This is actually needed. People see the conspiracy disclaimer as a wink wink and just believe everything as-is.

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        It’s not exactly crazy to talk about the US government assassinating people. The craziest part is supposing they try that hard to hide it.

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          What they mean is you have a covert ops team doing missions they can’t acknowledge. Team takes heavy losses in a mission. How do you report those deaths/injuries? Easy: Osprey crash. It’s not assassinations, it’s being able to fabricate a legitimate cause of death for someone who died in a way you don’t want to admit. Not necessarily assassinations. Even accidental deaths could be covered up this way according to the rumor/theory if the accident was something they didn’t want to bring to light. Not saying all Osprey deaths are this or that only the osprey is used for this.