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Orrex

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23. Here's a terrific deconstruction of 9/11 conspiracy nonsense:

Reply to Pharaoh (Original post)

Thu Dec 24, 2015, 12:53 PM

Dec 2015

http://www.cracked.com/article_15740_was-911-inside-job_p2.html

All by itself, this one point destroys the entire conspiracy theory:

100% of the people who were offered the deal, took it.

After all, we don't have a single person who has come running into the offices of the New York Times, waving a check and saying, "look! Here's a check for ten million smackers that the government gave me to be silent about 9/11! Can you believe these assholes? Now give me my book deal!"

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Wheres the Plane? [View all] Pharaoh Dec 2015 OP

Inside the building. whitefordmd Dec 2015 #1

It burned up awake Dec 2015 #2

in pieces Duckhunter935 Dec 2015 #3

"God put those dinosaur bones in the ground pintobean Dec 2015 #30

Yep. Exactly. nt snappyturtle Dec 2015 #4

Maybe one day we'll know the truth and not be called conspiracy nuts. NightWatcher Dec 2015 #5

Yes a plan turned to a missile by a high-jacker awake Dec 2015 #6

^^this^^ Pharaoh Dec 2015 #10

Unlikely jberryhill Dec 2015 #18

I would ask the program why the aluminum wings didn't get sheared off at the first lamppost strike librechik Dec 2015 #25

the lamp posts are designed to "shear off" when hit by a car awake Dec 2015 #31

Yeah I guess you would ask that... jberryhill Dec 2015 #37

Where are the people Texasgal Dec 2015 #7

The news was reporting by 11am that same day the names of the terrorists. BUT.... ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2015 #32

How bizarre jberryhill Dec 2015 #41

This reinforces my opinion that all conspiracy nuts are totally ignorant. FLPanhandle Dec 2015 #8

And rather than taking advantage of a teaching moment, your response is to insult them. 9/11 was... ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2015 #34

You really can't teach someone who refuses to learn such simple basics FLPanhandle Dec 2015 #38

Right here! pintobean Dec 2015 #9

this is called general discussion Pharaoh Dec 2015 #11

General discussion has rules pintobean Dec 2015 #15

And it just burns you up. Good! nt ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2015 #35

Lol. pintobean Dec 2015 #39

Better question: How can this be used to invade Iraq? OnyxCollie Dec 2015 #12

Unfortunately discussions of this sort get the poo poo treatment here. Juicy_Bellows Dec 2015 #13

Oy spanone Dec 2015 #14

So, you don't consider 9/11 a conspiracy? There were at least 20 hijackers (one didn't... ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2015 #36

. rug Dec 2015 #16

I just like to post here Pharaoh Dec 2015 #17

don't even bother to be sensible, Pharaoh librechik Dec 2015 #19

The lizard men landed it safely in one of their bunkers inside the hollow earth. Orrex Dec 2015 #20

Just as plausible as any of the truther theories. FLPanhandle Dec 2015 #21

You amateur. Orrex Dec 2015 #22

okay Pharaoh Dec 2015 #45

Here's a terrific deconstruction of 9/11 conspiracy nonsense: Orrex Dec 2015 #23

Maybe you should ask Alex Jones snooper2 Dec 2015 #24

Or Donald Trump Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2015 #29

No, every time you see a plane crash there is not tons of wreckage. stevenleser Dec 2015 #26

When was that photo taken? Octafish Dec 2015 #27

It flew out the other side Rosa Luxemburg Dec 2015 #28

As opposed to being what? A bouncy missile? Oneironaut Dec 2015 #33

Destroyed. bdwker Dec 2015 #40

Really? KentuckyWoman Dec 2015 #42

Okay melman Dec 2015 #43

LOCKING etherealtruth Dec 2015 #44