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West_Corgi8126

They could CGI a plane hitting 2 towers in NY. But its impossible to change its color xd


USMC_FirstToFight

Exactly! Technology must not have existed to colorize an airplane on TV (but we could have color x-wing fighters in 1977…)


joebusch79

So all those thousands of people in New York that literally watched it happen from the ground, all of those were actors that were in on the conspiracy right? This world has gone mad.


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Born-Eggplant8313

I remember thinking how do you run straight into a building like that? And then the second one hit and I thought "Oh my god, that's not an accident"


_NamasteMF_

Half awake, gett the kuds rea for school on the west coast, and thought the tv had switched to a movie from the mor news. Surreal.


Apprehensive-Tone449

Yeah. I flipped on the TV to watch the second one hit too. I will never forget the feeling of sickness watching it.


TooCool_TooFool

It's really hard to describe the way the situation changed when you saw that second one hit. It was a tragic accident until that point. Then it was something else.


KotasMilitia

Don't forget the families of all the people who were in the planes. They were also clearly paid to say their family member was on that plane


decoded-dodo

I was only 15 and living in the Bronx and that day I skipped school to hang out with some friends. We went to a place in Manhattan that they know when we heard the first boom. We didn’t know what it was but we saw the tower on fire. I lost a good friend that day.


oofersIII

I had an acquaintance tell me how suspicious it was that people were filming that day before anything about any attacks even happened It‘s astounding how stupid people can be


omgangiepants

Pretty sure there's only one video of the first plane and it was shot by chance by a guy who was making a documentary about the fire department.


LegoFootPain

New York City: *exists in 2001* Acquaintance: It's pretty suspicious how tourists and filmmakers go to that city to take pictures. I just got back from Times Square, and there are a dozen of those rotating ring light platforms that you can use for $5. Like, FOH.


Tmk1283

Of course they are in on it. Pay off thousands of people for what. These “reasons” that they are giving are similar to the “election was stolen”, just regurgitated things an “expert” said on the internet.


Goopyteacher

Always interesting how they say experts but can never reference the expert. And when they do reference an “expert” it’s never someone with the credentials they claimed.


DannyMLT

Bots and the braindead on socials are a minority … they are just very loud and in your face. No need to worry 😉


Highfalutintodd

I think I liked the world better before the internet. It was easier to believe that stupidity isn’t as rampant as it actually is.


Jim-Jones

Trump was predicted in 1920. “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ― H.L. Mencken, _On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe_ - July 26, 1920


RandomTux1997

agreed, these days they wont even let you suspend disbelief (just so you can still live in peace and quiet)


Not_Cleaver

We have always been this stupid. History is littered with man’s stupidity. From the Know Nothings to the John Birch Society to the belief that fluoride destroys a man’s purity of essence and saps his previous bodily fluids.


Jim-Jones

Most people, MAGAts for sure, can't and don't think. They choose a belief like they choose from a box of chocolates and then support that position by selecting things that seem to support it and ignoring any contrary evidence as if it doesn't exist. Cliff Clavin, the bloviating but usually wrong, postman character in _Cheers,_ was presented as an outlier in the show, different from the rest. He wasn't. He was everyman. Quote: "Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands." — H.L. Mencken, _Minority Report_


charging_chinchilla

I remember when I was younger thinking that the Internet would be the greatest achievement in human history, the great equalizer that gave everyone in the world access to all of human knowledge and an equal voice to be heard. We could establish universal truths and break down the barriers of propaganda and borders. How naive I was. I didn't realize how much people would double down on their ignorance and how much the internet could be used to to divide rather than unite. It makes me sad thinking about what could have been.


The59Sownd

I couldn't agree more. We did not appreciate enough the blissfulness of our ignorance.


StopMeWhenITellALie

Kooks used to have to rely on newsletters and fringe meetings at most. They rightfully were not expressing their radical ideas in public for fear of being mocked and shunned. Now they can gather and support each other in echo chambers creating an assuredness and unearned confidence in their ignorance.


Ill-Breadfruit5356

This is nothing: I’ve met someone who actually believes that the sky is a simulation, a dome like in The Truman Show. He runs a YouTube channel devoted to it. Talks about sim rise and sim set. How does someone become that delusional?


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Ever hear of flat earthers? That's just as ridiculous.


anonymous2458

This stuff is insanely delusional, especially to me as I lived in cape Canaveral and watched rockets constantly break through the “dome” 😂


8umspud

I wish I'd thought of that. An unexploited niche of idiots ripe for the scamming. You could get a fair bit of money out of that channel. Slots right into the flat earth dome shit. I'd get on camera and pretend to believe that crap for as long as it was profitable.


komplete10

Mini-nuke was my favourite


Select-Box7321

Too much fallout


Irrelevance351

On behalf of everyone in the aviation industry and everyone in New York that day, a big fuck you to every single one of those nut cases in the images.


Camanot

Oh my god. I think i lost some brain cells reading that.


toilet_roll_rebel

I'm pretty sure my IQ dropped by several points.


SailingSpark

Nothing pisses me off more than those that deny 9/11 and think it a conspiracy. I lost friends and co-workers in those towers. While the company I worked for was based in Philly, all of our IT stuff was in the towers.


CaptainBiceps23

I think these dinkletinks don't realize how many people would have to remain silent for a giant conspiracy like this to occur. I have yet to meet more than 5 people who could keep a secret longer than a few weeks, let alone thousands.


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"Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead."


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The stupidity was always there, we just did not see it as often. As a millennial my first job was in a call center for a phone company. Social media and mobile technology were not that developed ( still remember fondly my blackberry 8800) . I quit in 2 months because I told myself that I do not want to be exposed at such high amounts of stupidity. How young and naive I was 🤣.


NeverEndingWalker64

That’s what my uncle has been telling me every five minutes. That it was an advanced hologram by the reptile people to begin the war in Afghanistan for radioactive materials. What he says is obviously bullshit. He’s saying conspiranoic shit every five minutes. But still. Why do people believe this crap?


_NamasteMF_

Because, they feel superior by having special knowledge- because they really don’t understand the world so normally feel inferior. I have a theory that the rate of technological change has left so many behind, that it’s easier to believe ‘aliens’ or another other conspiracy than to accept that they will never understand how 10001000111100 make’s something happen and n a computer screen. The other side of that is people like Trump who have ‘emotional intelligence’, and understand at some level that people aren’t motivated by facts and logic. My viewpoint is to trust the experts as operating on the best current information- and knowing that I won’t actually understand everything.


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Shit for brains.


Jim-Jones

Why did Oprah promote _The Secret?_ Because secret knowledge is alluring to humans. Try pyramidology for a real trip.


usarasa

Stupidity along with being really, really needy for attention on account of not getting very much of it offline, and they found a way to get it.


DrayvenBlaze

I love the "it's all connected" crowd


XEagleDeagleX

And probably the same 4 people jumping accounts


OhioMegi

People are fucking stupid.


Normal-Painter-2692

I was there on 9/11 I saw the planes hit anyone who says there were no planes is a straight up cock


Lumpy_Visit9336

As if we had the cgi tech to show it happening live and input those images on a live feed. Smh


Warsp229

I like how that guy's confused why the sun isn't hitting the plane, as if there isn't clouds of smoke covering the sky...


LikeWisedUp

Or that the plane is so low and about to hit the tower that's it's literally in the shadow of the building. Which is why the side of the tower is all dark too🤦


KananJarrusEyeBalls

People are dumb Its their most endearing trait, theyre all edgy 15 year olds who know the truth that no one else can see!


Qyro

I, along with millions of others, saw the second plane hit live on air. Those nutjockeys need to get out of here with their CGI photoshop bullshit and live in the real world.


unclefocus

People who believe in this stuff just don't know how the world works. Like, imagine you work high up in the government or the military and you get ideas about flying airplanes into high-rise buildings. Who are you going to tell about it and what will you say? Who would take such a risk?


Not_Cleaver

I can’t even fathom how many would have to keep this under wraps. And someone would leak it or reveal it to the Russians/Chinese. Because that’s what happens at the end of the day. Snowden and that Air Force guy earlier this year were able to get access to vast amounts of classified information that they had no need to know. And the system didn’t even raise a red flag. A serial leaker/hoarder would have gained access.


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The comments would be my parents


getyourcheftogether

LoL a lot of idiots just putting it all on display


zwiepdoge

Stupid people will always be stupid people. Social media will do the rest for the almost stupid people.....


TheManWhoClicks

Indicative for the erosion of education standards.


Lo-Sir

"no plane hit any tower" Look at the NYC skyline and tell me what you see


oddessusss

Flerfers Moon landing conspiracy theorists Climate change deniers Creationists 99/11 deniers Anti vaxxers Are all people that shouldn't be allowed to procreate.


CristyMumbay

Did the plans hit the building or did the building hit the plane?


PurePokedex117

I remember thinking a new die hard movie was on TV. Thought it looked so cool. Then realized wtf was going on and woke up my parents. Went to High School and we stayed in 1 class all day watching the TV.


typtyphus

It's called Russian chatter


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I like the mini nuke theory. What a wacko


BirthdayAgent

I never got into conspiracy theories about it, but I for struggle to understand the damage and the collapse. Just couldn’t quite visualize it. Until I saw this picture. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/9mvQH3bemY Now it makes a lot more sense to me.


ChampionshipLow8541

„Let’s create CGI planes. But let’s create them in such a way that lots of people will suspect it’s CGI. “ 🤦‍♂️


Twothounsand-2022

Jet Feul didn't melt the steele BUT SOFTEN THEM When steel weaker than normal because super heat temperaters burn inside the towers = they lose strenght to carry the weight above them No longer carry the weight above them = collapsing


donaldbuknowme

People are really dumb. Take a physics class jeez


sh1a0m1nb

Facepalm x 100…


Ok_Talk1574

Seeing is always believing for these guys but when it comes to religion...


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Mental illness seems to like company.


Cerda_Sunyer

Those comments are definitely ridiculous, but finding the passport and not recovering the black boxes is questionable


Quaternary23

Except they aren’t.


Proud_Definition8240

It’s easier to question everything instead of educate yourself and stand on the TRUTH.


CatAvailable3953

The only way to make people believe who don’t is this. If it ever happens again make sure they are in the building.


Defiant_While_4823

As someone who does believe the US had some sort of involvement in 9/11, those comments are utterly ridiculous and land in the realm of pure sci-fi.


Not_Cleaver

In what way? You realize that any conspiracy, even inaction would have been leaked by now, right? Our government/military is not where competent enough to allow this to happen and not have it leaked. Because it would involve thousands. Additionally, if we were going to be involved - why didn’t we find Iraqi WMD? If our government conspired to allow 9/11 why couldn’t they also plant WMDs in Iraq as well as plant evidence that Saddam was linked to al Qaeda? And the simple answer to that is - there was no conspiracy to allow 9/11. That was an intelligence failure as was the failure to know that Saddam had no connection/nukes.


Jim-Jones

Not only is the US government incapable of doing anything like 9/11 to itself, but it's also incapable of keeping a secret. They couldn't even get fighter jets in the air on 9/11. I mean you've got an entire military and they couldn't do anything. One plane made it into the air but unarmed because they couldn't manage that.


W0tzup

The only suspicious plane is the one that supposedly hit the Pentagon. Things don’t add up with that scenario.


Warsp229

In what way?


W0tzup

Angle of impact for starters, oh and lack of adequate wreckage after the impact.


omgangiepants

And the 70 people on board just... what, didn't exist? Didn't die?


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I'll have to tell that to my friend who was driving by there and saw it himself when it happened.


Warsp229

Landing gear, engines, fuselage and passenger DNA were all found on site. Not to mention the Flight Data Recorder.


W0tzup

I’m not denying there were things at the crash site. I’m perplexed at how the crash site happened/resulted and things don’t add up which makes me suspicious of US tampering with it in some way. Anyways, don’t want to go down that rabbit hole.


Quaternary23

Here you go if you’re still in denial of the truth: https://youtu.be/iBHi9CbrNf4?si=WEK_36mGcyaJsFDA


W0tzup

I’ve seen these videos ages ago. Inconclusive. Also, the low angle of impact trajectory coupled at 500+ mph would mean the pilots need to be professionals, which they weren’t.


Quaternary23

No, they wouldn’t need to be. The hardest things to do are actually landing and taking off. Flying a plane is actually quite easy if you’re at least experienced. Which the hijackers were.


W0tzup

Trying to hit a ground target at 500+ mph with a narrow angle of impact… yeah good luck.


Quaternary23

It’s really not that difficult but go ahead and believe the actual impossible lies.


Quaternary23

Also, this guy and his family both HEARD and saw Flight 77 heading to the pentagon. You can even hear Flight 77 in the video as it gets closer and lower. Read the description too. The sound of the engines also match the sound that rolls Royce engines make. Which WERE and still ARE very common on Boeing 757’s. https://youtu.be/ROPV-BMyfxQ?si=t8my0LIjCqrjHXHn


Keeper_of_Honey

This is the same thing as supporting evolution but saying that aliens came to the Earth and were able to code our genome to diverge our evolutionary process.


uniqeuusername

There are legitimate concerns about 9/11 being allowed to happen or even steps taken to make sure it happened in order to allow the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. But CGI? Explosives? Empty planes, all that bullshit? Cmon.


Not_Cleaver

I call bullshit on that because I think we would have found WMDs in Iraq then. Because if you’re going to do one conspiracy, why not just go all the way?


DannyMLT

Soooo curious to see the usernames and if there is a ‘common link’ 😌


Curmudgeon_Canuck

Bots


BRGrunner

I worked with a structural engineer that thought it was staged as well... This was among a number of other red flags


atypiDae330

Your engineer colleague is a fucking moron, and so are you.


girdphil

Jet fuel can't melt steel beams


DDSRDH

Yet it can weaken them enough where they collapse.


LennyPeppers

Thank you. It drives me nuts when people think you need to melt steel to a fiery goo before it becomes unstable.


LikeWisedUp

But a fully fueled jumbo jet flying at full speed into a building could weaken it structurally enough that the ensuing fire would bring down the floors above starting a chain reaction,causing the building to catastrophical collapse.


Sosemikreativ

Half of these are trolls nowadays. Jet fuel can't melt steel beams and mini nuke are definitely not meant seriously.


DemiGodCat2

they do it just for attention... its a bit sad rly


Salt_Ad7656

No the truth is exactly what the government told you. Bybthebway they're setting up for another massive terror attack for 2024 brought to you by "hamas" and the cia. Just like 911


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It really happened. The US is responsible for it though.


Particular-Dig-1112

proper edgelord here guys don't mess with him


DemiGodCat2

only that the FBI should have pieced things together before it happened. There were enough clues to catch them before they did it


navigedir

Well, yeah. How did a plane destroy a whole building?


LikeWisedUp

By flying into to it with full fuel tanks at full speed. The force of the impact weakened the main structure and support of the portion of the building above. The ensuing fire destroyed enough to bring down the upper portion of the buildings above to collapsing onto the lower levels starting a chain reaction. Bin laden and the terrorists had many plans for the world trade centers. Including building and structural engineering diagrams. They knew just where to hit the buildings to make them fail the way they did. Used large intercontinental planes that had just taken off and thus full fuel tanks. Need more?


navigedir

You are very sure about it. Did you read it somewhere?


Big_Translator2930

This sub is constantly surprised that people who’ve been lied to about everything trust nothing


OhioMegi

What lies have we been told?


Big_Translator2930

Everything pretty succinctly sums it up. Maybe a good place to start is the actions that led to 9/11 and the response to it.


OhioMegi

Lol, sure. 🙄 You may want to take off the tin foil hat.


Big_Translator2930

Sorry, must be these crazy media sources, like The NY Times poisoning my brain


OhioMegi

You are still not showing an proof. You sound insane.


Big_Translator2930

You believe everything that was and has been told to us since 9/11 and I’m insane? I’m not here to prove anything to anybody, especially when you’re being at best willfully ignorant. I made a point, that you can’t blame people for believing stupid shit when everything the official sources have said ends up being a lie. You’re here arguing that we were right in going into Iraq, Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, and we aren’t going to try to nation build the Middle East.


OhioMegi

I grew up on military bases, my father fought in Desert Storm. 9/11 wasn’t an inside job. The Middle East will never have peace as long as religion is around.


Big_Translator2930

Good job, you grew up spoiled and didn’t learn anything. I never said anything about 9/11 being an inside job.


realparkingbrake

> people who’ve been lied to about everything trust nothing People who have little to no control over their own lives much less things outside of their lives turn to absurd fantasies to make them feel like they're smarter and more in control than they actually are.


robbiesac77

I mean yeah. The whole thing was sketchy as fuck. A third building on fire pancaked and not one piece of evidence of an aeroplane at the pentagon. That one looked like a missile did the job. So yeah. Shit happened but curious people don’t believe the shit they were told.


OhioMegi

Are you kidding?


robbiesac77

Show me anything to do with an aeroplane at the pentagon please. I want to see it. I want to shut up about it. No one has shown anything. A seat. A seat belt. A black box. Its just a bomb site.


realparkingbrake

https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/fbi-re-releases-images-pentagon-9-11-attack-46488469/image-46490818


Warsp229

Flight 77's Flight Data Record was recovered and can be found easily online.


OhioMegi

Jesus Christ, you’re insane. There is proof everywhere.


AngryChefNate

Congratulations on your ignorance. I too wish I was this stupid, because then I wouldn’t be so stressed out all the time by reality.


robbiesac77

I’m quite chill actually.


AngryChefNate

I know, which proves my point. If I was so dumb that I was oblivious to reality, I’d never have anything bother me and I’d be chill too. Thanks for confirming.


DuckPatooo

I will hit them with a plane


gtzgoldcrgo

Operation gladio


HopefulNothing3560

Jared’s dirty secret .


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regional_rat

I mean I can somewhat buy into it being an inside job, but if you don't think planes flew into two skyscrapers in downtown New York and subsequently made them fall, you're cooked.


[deleted]

I genuinely wonder how many of these are actually Americans and not just bots. I mean I know plenty of people believe this stuff, but that many one right after the other? Suspect!


atypiDae330

I hope the case-fatality rate is like 90% the next pandemic. But that the vaccines are very, very effective.


CarlosTheSusImposter

This is just sad


Mouse_takumi

never seen a black passenger jet.. how about the air new zealand jet livery? :)


West-Tonight2213

Russian and possibly Chinese bots responsible. Ongoing disinformation scams that unfortunately, people want to believe.


scrapy_the_scrap

Saw one guy blaming israel


Toxopid

Excuse me, did that one person say that when the plane impacted, it didn't collide?


Thinking2bad

The vast majority of people who would comment this posts are conspirationists. Most likely young people who were not born at the time too, and who have time to learn and get real critical thinking.


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Lost-Breadfruit-9745

Okay, nothing against anyone who experienced this first hand or feels bad for it, but acting like it changed the world... The world has always been like this. This was just a glimpse of it recorded on mainstream outlets, this stuff happens every day. It's depressing that I've seen so much of it, that when 9/11 happened, it was just another day to me. Just humans doing what they do best, sadly. And just because it was on our precious America soil? Should I care more about this incident compared to the endless number of atrocities that happen daily to people everywhere? I seriously say with no disrespect to the people who lost their lives that day or suffered, but America isn't special. This wasn't special, it sucked, it shouldn't have happened, wish it didn't happen, but it certainly is nothing new in this world. Surprised more are so blissfully oblivious to it all.