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[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 109 points 1 day ago (12 children)

I agree with almost all this list, but Building 7 pisses me off a bit

WhY dId BuIlDiNg 7 cOlLaPsE?

Because two of the tallest buildings in the world collapsed right next to it, causing structural damage that lead to it's collapse.

BuT iT lOoKs LiKe A DeMoLiTiOn.

What do you think structural failure is meant to look like? Do you think it's meant to look like Jenga bricks falling over? Like do you really think two of the largest buildings in the world collapsing next to a comparatively small building like that is going to do nothing?

The reason why you don't see surrounding buildings damaged when they're demolishing something like a British Tower-block is because they time the explosions precisely, shore up anything that might get damaged and evacuate the area. Do you really think the same thing would happen if two of the world's largest towers had their floors slam down on each other like a squeezebox, and then had the cores collapse right next to them? Do you, hand on heart, think a building right next to that happening, wouldn't suffer structural damage?

Wanna know something about 9/11? If the US government wanted to do a false flag, they wouldn't fucking bother doing some long winded scheme involving thermite or explosives or missiles disguised perfectly as planes that can be debunked by people who think Occam is a razor company. They would just like whatever of the 101 major terror plots that are being planned against the US that they know about happen. Why spend millions of dollars doing it yourself when you can just fucking let the guy in Afghanistan and his buddies that you have been watching for a decade and change do what they have been planning.

That, or, and this is something people might not consider, as cruel, power hungry, and sociopathic as the world's governments may be, they are also made up of people, some of those people fuck up, some of those people are morons. The idea that the everpresent They, (The Enby that controls the world) is hypercompetant and hyperintelegent is just something people believe to feel safer when they trust the government, and more powerful when they don't.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

tbh, an everpresent hypercompetent and hyperintelligent enby that controls the world would be preferrable to the current situation

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ghislane was invited on the 9/11 shadow commission so I'm throwing my favorite conspiracy in the ring: A handful of people at the CIA and Mossad piggybacked on an Al Qaeda operation and let it go forward to destory evidence of crimes, steal billions and create a justification for war all in one move.

No thermite needed and it doesn't particularly matter if the Pentagon was hit by a missile or not it plays the same. Epstein files prove the rogue elements in the CIA have been there for decades. Very little hands on work needed, mostly strategic fumbling.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No thermite needed

You need it for the near-simultaneous failure of every column in the WTC7 building.

it doesn't particularly matter if the Pentagon was hit by a missile or not.

You would have to question how someone got a ground based missile so close to the Pentagon, then convince the FBI to confiscate all video evidence.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The missile in 2001 I didn't find unbelievable, it's military and intel spooks, the senior brass and even people at companies like Raytheon can destroy or disappear a single ground missle system. Remember folks this all 90s computers and we now know for sure Mossad backdoored all their software.

WTC-7 I haven't looked at deep but if it were me planning I'd weaken the structure before hand chemically if possible, I suppose I've found my next rabbit hole.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Flight AA77 on 9/11: New FDR Analysis Supports the Official Flight Path Leading to Impact with the Pentagon

It looks like the size plane, but the drop from 2000ft to a flat trajectory in 20 seconds seems impossible.

Lots of crackpot videos on WTC7 but NIST and Alaska are the most scientific.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I agree, and feel similarly about the inclusion of operation Northwoods.
It's most prominently a horrifying plan that was rejected and remained classified, with the proposer being replaced shortly afterwards (it's entirely possible that's a coincidence).

Someone thinking of something horrible and then not doing it isn't evidence that they would do something similar. There's no particular reason to think they hid evidence because they admitted in the same deeply classified documents to doing far worse things.

[–] abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know, and you don't need to point to Operation Northwoods to "prove" anything because American Government officials have proposed much worse things and have done much worse things.

Like MacArthur proposed using nukes like conventional bombs to completely irradiate the Korean - Chinese Border. This would not merely kill Millions, perhaps billions, but it would cause a nuclear winter. For that, MacArthur was dismissed. That was a proposal.

What people forget is that MacArthur fired upon American World War One vets protesting to get their War bonuses because of the depression during the Bonus War. You don't need to make up conspiracies, what governments have already done/doing are bad enough.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For MacArthur, that plan, while horrific, wasn't as bad as you're painting it, if only because the bombs would have been much lower yield than modern nukes.

It would kill millions, especially if he used ground burst instead of air burst, but the actual global effect would be negligible. Cancer rates would spike in Northern Japan, but the fallout would mostly be over water.

Air burst would have even less effect, because there would be no fallout. (fallout is stuff from the ground that gets mixed with the radioactive material and free neutrons in a ground burst nuclear explosion, it's heavy so it falls out)

Still an insane plan and MacArthur was justly fired for it and a bunch of other similar insanity, I just wish the Dulles brothers had been similarly fired for the shit they pulled.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, great, no fallout, fuck that is great super lets detonate millions and the radiatorn will go in the ocean yay it's not so bad yay

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

You do know that uranium oxide is water soluble right? The ocean has more radioactive material in it than the land does, also water is very good at blocking radiation. That's why it's used for spent fuel cooling pools.

So the physics says that if you're going to have fallout, the ocean is the best place for it. Provided that the fallout doesn't float. Then it will most likely end up washing up on the shores of Japan.

The key here is that the bombs available in 1950 were orders of magnitude weaker than modern nukes.

Castle Brovo alone was stronger than every bomb from the MacArthur plan combined.

Using hundreds of Castle Brovo sized bombs would fuck up the world, using the bombs MacArthur had access to? Not as much.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's most prominently a horrifying plan that was rejected and remained classified

Many more horrifying plans have been accepted and are unclassified (e.g.Manhattan project).

The point is that precedent exists for hijacking planes for false flag purposes.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

There's no precedent at all. Precedent implies that it happened, which it didn't.
Something being thought of and dismissed is just not evidence for that thing being done.

It's not like it was even that original of an idea. There had been two plane hijackings by cubans in the past year. Proposing "what if a third went wrong" is hardly a masterclasses in outside the box thinking.

We've done other false flag operations. Other terrible things to domestic civilians.
Using that time we didn't actually do anything as an example is just odd.

Personally, I think people like it just because it has a cooler name. "Mongoose" just doesn't have the same ring.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Precedent implies that it happened, which it didn't.

It did. A plan was formed to the level it could be presented to the president. That happened.

It's not like it was even that original of an idea.

The original part is hijacking your own plane to blame it on another nation as a false flag operation.

We've done other false flag operations.

OK. So now you admit that there is a precedent for attacking our own people. I think we can close the discussion.

Personally, I think people like it just because it has a cooler name.

MK-Ultra is the coolest conspiracy name. Operation Paperclip is the most boring sounding.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're forgetting that the singular person responsible for the decision not to do it was assassinated shortly after...

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And? What happened next? Did they do an operation Northwoods? Did we go to war with Cuba? Was Johnson more aggressive on Cuba than Kennedy, or was he actually more engaged on diplomatic fronts?

I'm not forgetting anything. It just doesn't fit with any narrative that makes a lick of goddamned sense. Like, Kennedy rejected Northwoods because he was worried the troops might be needed in Europe, so starting a war in Cuba would be a bad move.
He was strongly in favor of every other operation they proposed as part of the larger plan.

Why would a massive conspiracy exist to kill Kennedy for rejecting a plan and then... Not do the plan?

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago

He was killed by the oil industry, with a plan carried out by George HW Bush

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Multiple organizations within the US government received warnings about and had information on the 9/11 attacks like a month before hand, we knew it was going to happen and let it, that's a fact.

To be fair, I doubt that is what whoever made this had in mind but still it is a valid piece of evidence for not trusting the government.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

It doesn't take controlled demolitions or fake planes with hidden missiles or anything convoluted like that, just money. I can't prove it, but I believe there are people in this world who cultivate extremism like it's agriculture, and for the right fee you can order up some extremist robots to do some extremist shit.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also giant buildings are designed to withstand a huge amount of torque/moment. They act like sails in the wind and it's a catastrophe if they fall over. But additionally you really want to minimize sway so people at the top don't get seasick in their office/apartment. But then there's the destruction element of it. You want to do everything in your power to make sure that if a building you design to go in Manhattan of all places has to go down it goes directly down and not across the street into another building like a tragic line of dominoes.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

i have been in well designed towers and poorly designed towers. the poorly designed tower was 13 floors high. it swayed like a concussed boxer. the well designed tower also swayed like fuck, but you couldn't feel it thanks to earthquake stuff.

Basically. Buildings don't fall like Jenga bricks. When something bad happens, they tend to implode, be it on purpose, if an airliner crashes into them, or if the aforementioned building collapses next to you and causes you structural damage.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you think structural failure is meant to look like? Do you think it’s meant to look like Jenga bricks falling over? Like do you really think two of the largest buildings in the world collapsing next to a comparatively small building like that is going to do nothing?

like this but rotated 90 degrees why

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Especially when you're all stopped up

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

causing structural damage that lead to it's collapse.

Nope. The debris from WTC 1 caused structural damage to the southwest region of WTC 7—severing seven exterior columns—but this structural damage did not initiate the collapse.

Do you, hand on heart, think a building right next to that happening, wouldn't suffer structural damage?

This is the opinion of NIST. i.e. The official US government line.

What do you think structural failure is meant to look like?

It's meant to look nothing like an implosion from a controlled demolition.

The reason why you don't see surrounding buildings damaged when they're demolishing something like a British Tower-block is because they time the explosions precisely, shore up anything that might get damaged and evacuate the area.

Which is why the clean destruction of building 7 is so suspicious.

Why spend millions of dollars doing it yourself

Because you want billions of dollars of Iraqi oil.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 0 points 1 day ago

Made up of people...

That sentence..

It is made up of flesh long lost to greed deeply drowned in overwhelmingly sad ego trips manipulated to do the bidding of hypercapitalist enormous autonomous demonic entities, that's also "made up" of people, each and every single one replaceable. The vd gone the layers gone the politicians gone it will regenerate new flesh and this flesh will do its bidding or also be made to let go of its lucrative benefits that include feeding its family and another of flesh will assume his duties until that flesh no longer can and then may we finally have peace as the planet has been divided evenly among the entities and they have eaten each other until one remain.

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not big on the 9/11 conspiracy stuff. But, I do think some kind of shady shit was going down to motivate the attackers aside from hate for the US.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

You think hate for the US is insufficient?

I think you underestimate our reputation.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No steel frame buildings in history have ever collapsed from fire. It has never happened... except for those three in one day.

Building 7 literally just caught fire and then fell. Pretty fucking weird.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I always point to the mandarin oriental fire in like Beijing or something; can’t remember the city… but a steel frame building was COMPLETELY engulfed in flames for like 12 hours straight and didn’t collapse