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Call me a conspiracy nut if you want. But a foreign national who worked for the CIA, committing a seemingly random act of violence against the national guard, who were deployed there as a political stunt claiming to be suppressing violent foreigners, who was captured faster than the panicked teen who shot Charlie Kirk, all just seems a little..... Suspicious?
I mean, PTSD and anger at the animosity they received since coming here, a country that they literally betrayed their home for, kind of explains everything.
I'm not saying there couldn't be something deeper, but sometimes a flag just flaps because of the momentum imparted to it when it was screwed into the base and a lack of air resistance to halt that momentum, ya know? Newton's first law, but for people. Or flags, in the metaphor. And on the moon, in case that wasn't clear. It's about a conspiracy about the moon landing being fa... I'm explaining too much, you get it.