Closed minds are why agendas are always allowed to move forward. When fed & planned properly, the sheep never give events a second thought,...
Following where the evidence leads is the opposite of being closed minded. Allowing your own biases and fears to color the evidence and your conclusions will tend to lead you down blind alleys. That strikes me as more closed minded, or rather one tracked minded, than trying to think critically and objectively follow where the evidence leads. "Exclude the impossible and what is left, however improbable, must be the truth (The Fate of the Evangeline by A. Conan Doyle)". That is to say, when you get evidence that doesn't make any sense you DO have to think outside of the box, and furthermore...qui bono, "Who benefits". There certainly are conspiracies, especially in the halls of power, and always have been. But, everything is not a conspiracy, and even though they can stay secret for a time, they are almost always exposed if they require the complicity of more than a few people, and even then they rarely stay true conspiracies that remain secret.
Of course, doing "investigation" via the internet means it's all second hand. Nothing is primary sources and therefore it's really all speculation and more of a Rorschach for you than the actual event. We have people creating and curating evidence to present what they want to, and you simply have to sift through all of that. That is not to even consider all the internet fakery that goes on.
In this thread there are people willing to die on the hill that the guy jumped off the roof with nothing in his hands looking at grainy, compressed video. The HD video clearly shows him with a long package on the roof, jumping off, and then running with it on the ground. In one video it looks like he might have a plate carrier on, so another guy dies on that hill despite all the other footage clearly showing he isn't wearing armor... Are they using the degraded video and one angle to prove their conspiracy theory? Or, is it an honest mistake (garbage in garbage out)? Really that's an opinion, but there is still an objective reality.
There are many long time members here. We see how each other thinks over the years. We know where people's minds go instantly in reaction to any news. The conspiracy theorist's who distrust the government have racked up an impressive track record since covid. However, when everything is a conspiracy then you have a 100% chance to be right at some point, and everyone says "Wow, I didn't see that coming." Then we have stuff like this where believing it's the Joos, or the Government orchestrated the hit is ridiculous, because things are exactly as they seem, and far from hiding the truth, the government was bending over backwards trying to let everyone know what was happening as-it-was-happening to the point of jumping the gun.
