I swear I think I teeter-totter between belief and disbelief year after year. I remember when things first starting coming out people said they heard explosions, and no one knew how debris could make building 7 also collapse so efficiently. Then the myriad of conspiracy information from the “dancing israelis” scandal (Mossad agents posing as art students) and previous attempts to take the towers down, the ease of which nearly completely in tact passports were conveniently found, presence of thermite on the ground, supposedly testimony that the twin towers were built to withstand the very thing that took them down, the suspicious insurance purchases by the Twin Towers owner and some other company at the port. I don’t trust my government to tell the truth, at all, so I am certainly not ruling out a major conspiracy. However, a conspiracy so large would surely have more cracks or more leaks from people involved? Not sure. I still like to peruse this site from time to time, seeing the new posts from Architectural Engineers for 9/11 truth. https://www.ae911truth.org/ Would love to see takes from people on this site, whether you think the conspiracy is dumb or has some merit.

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      Real hot take:

      The CIA spread conspiracy theories that Bush did it, to discredit the truth: That Cheney knew specifically of the attack and what planes were to be targeted.

      He intentionally sat on information that could have prevented it, not even telling the president. Because he knew it would justify a war and get lil Bush (and by extension himself) four more years.

      And that would have been possible, because Cheney had restructured all the intelligence agencies to report directly to him, if he didn’t pass something on to Bush personally, Bush never knew about it.

      And the entire point of Bush being president, was to be the face and fall guy for Cheney.

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        2 months ago

        See, now, as much as this is a conspiracy theory, it doesn’t flatly contradict reality. It’s not implausible on the face of it, given what we know. I’m agnostic about it, because at the end of the day, it doesn’t really even matter whether anybody knew exactly when and where. The Bushies knew an attack was coming—multiple sources (the Clinton team, the FBI, the CIA)—and they did nothing. That’s enough to damn them.

        This is what we should be focusing our attention on, not trying to prove that buildings which suffer severe structural damage, for which they weren’t designed, somehow wouldn’t fall down.