What are you all's thoughts on 9/11 conspiracy theories

I have yet to see a conspiracy theory that didn't strike me as needlessly shallow and failing to take into account something major (physics, America's relationship with the Middle East, past terrorist attacks, false flag precedents, etc.). Plus, I just find it really corrosive and distasteful about using such an event as a platform for one to spew their New World Order bullshit.

I honestly don't know enough about it. There seem to be all kind of inconsistency's with all theories, including the official one.

I don't see particularly much reason to trust in Bush's government but most conspiracy theories are put up by loonies aswell, so it's up to you to pick your poison. However I have to hesistate that yes, conspiracies actually exist (and Bush's Grandpa WAS ACTUALLY involved in one) but also that on the other hand 9/11 was perhaps the most major event in modern history so it's obvious, we'd have all kinds of bullshit spewed about that.

I think blindly believing the conspiracy theories is as naive as blindly believing the government.

tower 7! tower 7!!!!

I think that in the post-Watergate/JFK/Lewinsky era, anything and everything that happens on that scale is immediately scrutinized and conspiracy theories crop up, mostly to push some sort of hidden agenda or to boost someone's profile. I don't think that 9/11 was an "inside job"; it was a senseless tragedy perpetrated by extremists. You could make the argument that the powers-that-be took advantage of the situation afterward, but the conspiracies that America was behind the attacks are (in my opinion) ludicrous.

They're fake. Saying "9/11 was an inside job" as a joke is fucking dumb and annoying too.

fake news.

Atta boy

I'm going to add another thing: conspiracy theories in general always strike me as some attempt to try to find a grand narrative in events because the idea that something so major could just happen is the scarier option. With 9/11, separate federal departments had their own individual intel regarding the possibility of a domestic terror attack by Al-Qaeda but the way the departments were set up stifled communication within the federal government so they couldn't put all the pieces together. Since then, the federal government has reorganized but that's a horribly terrifying idea that we could know some things and still not figure it out enough to prevent it because of a lack of streamlined communication is terrifying, as is the reality that since then they've streamlined things and increased in power to the point where they can spy on their own people. For a lot of people, the idea that it was done by design and not a series of devastating occurrences with nobody in the driver's seat is even worse, hence conspiracy theories.

They're just silly.