Nah I did see someone believing that in the comments of the thread. There’s a Snopes article debunking it, which is how you know a lot of people believe it.
There’s a conspiracy floating around that Jackson became aware of the human trafficking to the ultrawealthy and he was smeared and possibly killed for it. No real evidence but it’s a fun one to think about.
This is not something I wouldn’t consider "fun to think about.
I mean its entirely possible. I struggle to believe there are that many people who are rich+powerful and also nonces. I really do believe that once you reached a certain level of influence you were told “WE run this world, youre either in or out.” And we’ll never be able to separate for sure whos a poor-little-rich-guy and whos an awful awful awful excuse for a human.
Only silver lining in MJ case is that hes already dead. We dont need to worry about it so much there.
First of all, what are you on about?
Second
How is this not a bit? This seems extremely unlikely to be a sincere belief by whoever made this statement.
Edit: third, am I taking a shitpost too seriously?
Nah I did see someone believing that in the comments of the thread. There’s a Snopes article debunking it, which is how you know a lot of people believe it.
https://lemmy.world/post/45939437
There are multiple people sharing that belief unironically…
So how did you come about the conclusion that they are “progressives”? I am really curious as to why you are mixing politics with this.
Lemmy is a predominantly progressive platform. Which made seeing so much MJ apologia very disappointing and unexpected.
This is not something I wouldn’t consider "fun to think about.
Also, damn that got heated.
I mean its entirely possible. I struggle to believe there are that many people who are rich+powerful and also nonces. I really do believe that once you reached a certain level of influence you were told “WE run this world, youre either in or out.” And we’ll never be able to separate for sure whos a poor-little-rich-guy and whos an awful awful awful excuse for a human.
Only silver lining in MJ case is that hes already dead. We dont need to worry about it so much there.
That’s a fascinating conspiracy theory, but I think the most likely explanation is greed on behalf of the accusers, or their parents.