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Jet fuel doesn't have to liquefy steel beams, it has to heat them enough to warp them beyond the structural integrity needed to hold up a fucking skyscraper
@Shalakushka just to be clear I'm not advocating any of these theories. I didn't know what else to call that conspiracy theory.
Someone once handed me a DVD on the street and it had about 2 hours of interviews with engineers, diagrams, mathematics, etc on it so that's my definition of fleshed out.
It's not fleshed out because they got a bunch of idiots to talk on camera, and that's basically the whole fucking problem right there. Conspiracy theories are anti knowledge.
The concept of conspiracy theories as you understand it is a ruse, a misinformation tool.
Look up mk ultra, and some of the other shit the cia has actually gotten up to.
Or hemmingway, being paranoid and crazy. Ah, turns out they were following him and fucking with him, even inside the loony bin!
Nowadays you get qanon and other obviously stupid bullshit rolled under the conspiracy theory label, and that's the fucking point
So sinclair, the one company that runs basically all major news outlets in the US, can discredit anything with one turn of phrase.
So like yeah, you're kinda right. But there is real, fucked up shit that gets swept under that label, and ignored at large because of it.