The murder of Pat Tillman is one of those things that if explained in plain language reads as conspiracy theory, because surely there& #39;s no way that the poster boy quarterback who quit to join the war grew disillusioned & was shot by his own unit before he could get publicly vocal

Anyone fawning over Bush for decrying active campaigns of misinformation has, at best, memory-holed this entire thing, where the covered-up murder of a man against the war he was fighting became martyrdom in service of that war #Surrounding_Tillman& #39;s_death">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Tillman #Surrounding_Tillman& #39;s_death">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_...

Here& #39;s archived reporting from the AP in 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20090525150300/http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-26-tillman-friendly-fire_N.htm">https://web.archive.org/web/20090...

speaking to the difference between "reads as" conspiracy and "is" conspiracy, I think the conversation in this thread (this comes towards the end of it) parses out a lot of the space around what is known and what isn& #39;t https://twitter.com/ExumAM/status/1385349942005301248">https://twitter.com/ExumAM/st...