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b_b  ·  3760 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Watch me commit Hubski social suicide

Remember the Hudson's building demolition? That was the largest controlled implosion in history. And it took an entire team of people working for a full time week to lay enough explosive to bring the thing down. This building makes Hudson's look like a play house. Where were all these people hiding? "Don't mind me. I'm just the maintenance man laying C4 around these structural beams. Nothing to see here, folks." Forget about all the other crazy, batshit scenarios that would have to line up to make 9/11 a government conspiracy (as opposed to an actual terrorist conspiracy, a fact conveniently ignored by conspiracy theorists who, for whatever reason, want the US government to be responsible), and just focus on the fact that it's literally impossible to blow up a building of this magnitude clandestinely.

Here's the thing. An unexpected event happens. The government investigates the event to find out the cause. They release their findings. A group of experts (or, maybe "experts") says, "Hmmm, the government's explanation is insufficient to explain the facts we know to be true." Here's how you get taken seriously: You offer an alternate explanation that's MORE PLAUSIBLE, not one that is literally and utterly out of the realm of what is possible in the universe. Newton's theory didn't quite explain planetary phenomena. If Einstein's relativeity would've taken us back to the days of Greek epicycles, do you think we'd be celebrating him as a hero? I doubt it.

I feel shame for even commenting here.