• SkibidiToiletFanAcct [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The funny thing is that the more you know about missiles, the less this looks like one. I’m sure some truther has already claimed to know the model of missile used, but I’ll say if this isn’t a plane, it would need to be a very bespoke missile.

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    This is some real conspiracioid shit here. Did America really need excuses to do absolutely horrid shit throughout it’s history?

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    Okay maybe, but like, why would they do that? The United States obviously doesn’t care about it’s own civilians and if it was to be that directly planned, why not just use a plane like the towers? There were people on the plane that’s purported to hit the pentagon, don’t they have families that can confirm they exist? Why would the US Military use this as an excuse to bomb itself, but only with a missile? What’s the point and what was the benefit of a missile over just using a plane like all the other attacks that day?

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      Because it’s easier to hit a building with a missile than it is to conduct a successful hijacking plot to strike a rather low-laying building with a passenger airplane at extremely high velocity.

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        The Pentagon is a pretty big ass building. Sure, hitting that specific point is hard, but he likely wasn’t aiming at that specific point. He was aiming for the huge building.

        It’s similar to winning the lottery. The chances are really low that any particular person wins, but 100% that someone wins eventually. (Obviously this case was not 100%, but the huge building is an easy target.)

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          I’m sure the pilot didn’t know, but the plane hit the most reinforced part of the building. Added to the fact the maneuver to strike that portion is not easy, and it makes you wonder why he didn’t just nosedive into the top of it. Easier to do, and (unknown to him) would have caused significantly more damage.

          I’m agnostic on what went down that day, but it is rather fortuitous for the Pentagon that the hijacker chose to do what he did there

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              At the time of the attacks, the Pentagon was under renovation and many offices were unoccupied, resulting in fewer casualties. Only 800 of 4,500 people who would have been in the area were there because of the work. Furthermore, the area hit, on the side of the Heliport facade, was the section best prepared for such an attack. The renovation there, improvements which resulted from the Oklahoma City bombing, had nearly been completed.

              It was the only area of the Pentagon with a sprinkler system, and it had been reconstructed with a web of steel columns and bars to withstand bomb blasts. The steel reinforcement, bolted together to form a continuous structure through all of the Pentagon’s five floors, kept that section of the building from collapsing for 30 minutes—enough time for hundreds of people to crawl out to safety. The area struck by the plane also had blast-resistant windows—2 inches (5 cm) thick and 2,500 pounds (1,100 kg) each—that stayed intact during the crash and fire. It had fire doors that opened automatically and newly built exits that allowed people to get out.

              From the Wikipedia article: https://web.archive.org/web/20150622032541/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/sep/16/news/mn-46435 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon#September_11,_2001,_attacks

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    I can believe that the plane got shot down in the fields and spinner into a heroic patriotic sob story because nobody was out there to really confirm anything. But the missile striking the pentagon is just silly.

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    Is the conspiracy that there were a bunch of poor African Americans living in the Pentagon so they shot a missile at it? I really don’t see why they would shoot a missile at the Pentagon, and also have to fake a plane taking off with hundreds of passengers, staff, hijackers etc involved

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      The conspiracy is that the Pentagon was undergoing renovations in that wing so everyone was gone, and this was supposedly apart of the Pentagon that houses records for black ops projects that were being investigated in the audit of the missing, what was it, 2.3 trillion?

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        They don’t need to fire a missile into the Pentagon to destroy records haha. They would also know that the response to this attack would kill whatever efforts there were to audit their budget.

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          I mean it kinda did so I guess your not wrong. They essentially just threw their shoulders up and " I dunno" and that was that. Then post 9/11 created an environment where if you cared about defense budget issues your not a patriot.

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            Yep. This was only a decade after the Gulf War, too, so the chances that whoever was concerned about an audit knew exactly what would happen to the budget during a war are 100%.

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    a point they bring up on the trueanon episode about this is that the official story isn’t that believable. the guy who supposedly flew the plane that day (hani hanjour) kept failing exams for flight school and his instructors reported him to the FAA multiple times later recalling that “he could not fly at all.”

    but on 9/11 he gets in an unfamiliar plane, flies it to arlington, and then executes a tight 330 degree corkscrew down thousands of feet to smash exactly into the target face of the building at 850kph

    idk, something seems fishy about that

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      I could teach you how to do that in 20 minutes in X-Plane 6.0

      later recalling that “he could not fly at all.”

      The procedures and techniques necessary to safely and legally operate a commercial aircraft as well as to be considered “able to fly at all” by pilot instructors are far harder than flying into the twin towers

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        Yeah and the actual pilots got the hard parts out of the way, of starting up the plane, navigating the airport, communicating with ATC, and taking off. “he could not fly at all” means jack shit when the goal is to crash the plane

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        to be considered “able to fly at all” by pilot instructors are far harder than flying into the twin towers

        But he didn’t fly into the towers, he flew into the Pentagon.

        A 5-story building, at ground level, while doing 850 kph in a civilian airliner, less than 20 ft above ground. On the first try.

        After executing said corkscrew maneuver in an unfamiliar airplane.

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          Oh yeah thats the Pentagon guy, no that was easy too, give me 25 minutes I’m not even kidding. He just approximately landed on the building going full speed. The only hard part about actually landing is hitting a safe speed at the proper angle and not sliding off the end of the runway due to too much speed.

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            The Pentagon is (or at least for a time was) the largest office building in the world, too. It’s enormous. Probably easier to hit than the Twin Towers.

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      I have no idea, is there proof that the plane actually left and is a real passenger plane that was scheduled?

      They might’ve also hijacked the plane and crashed it/shot it down into the ocean

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        Comrade, I’m not saying this to dunk on you but when you reach these kinds of questions

        is there proof that the plane actually left and is a real passenger plane that was scheduled?

        you’re delving into QAnon/Flat Earther-type thinking. Once you start with conspiracy first, explanations later, you’re dangerously close to going off the deep end.

        If all these very reasonable responses don’t convince you that the US didn’t bomb themselves with a missile, then I’d urge you to ask yourself if there is anything that would convince you. What would be enough proof for you to go “Ah, oh well, I guess it really was a plane that crashed into the pentagon”?

        Because you can literally always say that evidence was faked by them but, well, then you’ve successfully made your theory unfalsifiable and have officially reached QAnon territory. I’m sorry if this sounds patronizing but I genuinely find this concerning.

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          I’m just 9/11 posting for fun I indulge in conspiracy theories as pure entertainment cri

          I understand the only thing that matters is that the state used 9/11 as an excuse to pass sweeping surveillance changes on its citizens and wage wars in the middle east to strengthen its economy

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      Yeah like to me it seems believable that maybe the cia or someone else had something to do with that particular attack, but like if you are going to go through the effort of jacking a plane, why not just ram the plane into it, why go through the extra effort of sending a missile, and then what, paying off witnesses & airtraffic controllers, landing the plane at a blacksite and shooting everyone?

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      i support this one just because the idea that the pentagon needed to blow itself up to get rid of evidence or something when they have at least one paper shredder in that building is hilarious

      it’s like some sort of liberal brainworm that the dod can’t normally destroy evidence and instead needed a few bad actors to set up an elaborate rube goldberg machine including disappearing an entire plane just to destroy three pieces of paper

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        I think the idea that it served any other purpose but to “show the scope of the attack against our freedom” is a stretch for exactly that reason. How can you even be sure every piece of evidence is destroyed

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        There is no official footage of this? I haven’t checked because I am unamerican but I thought it would have news-tier footage like that of the Twin Towers. Since it is the Pentagon I thought there would have been cameras there especially if (not sure if this was the case) they knew planes were headed there.

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    WTC7 will never make sense to me, motherfucker just crumbles because of a bunch of fires and debris. Come on, I just don’t buy it. That and the people who supposedly heard explosions on the towers, eh let me doubt. As for the Pentagon I don’t think a cruise missile did the job but the available footage is dogshit and there’s no other angles at all, still I have no doubts it was an airplane.

    Regardless, I remember people back then saying that 9/11 would spawn a new era of reduced civil liberties, increased militarism, surveillance state and so on, these people were mostly leftists and disregarded as crazy. Well these “conspiracies” turned out to be true.

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    So this is footage of a missile at ground level going directly into the side of the Pentagon - why would the missile be at ground level when it struck? It’d need to have launched and then dived down to ground level.

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    Why would they switch from a controlled demo like the towers to a random missile for the Pentagon? Or for that matter, why can’t they just shoot missiles at both the towers and the Pentagon and blame it on scheming Iranians? It’s weird for them to have two completely different modes of destruction on two different sets of buildings instead of just reusing the same mode of destruction for both sets of buildings or just blowing up one set of buildings instead of two.

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      Towers = tall, everybody will see the missiles

      Also the Pentagon collapsing out of nowhere from a demolition doesn’t make sense at all

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        I guess my main point of confusion is why would they fake two different attacks instead of just faking one attack (the twin towers) and calling it a day. No one cares or even remembers about the Pentagon attack, so why bother shooting a missile at it?

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          To get rid of documents and people that were in that section of the Pentagon that was incinerated without risk of whistleblowers or suspicion of they just randomly disappeared a bunch of files and employees

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            What whistleblowers and files were they trying to destroy? I thought the false flag was to get the public on board with invading Afghanistan and Iraq. What were the whistleblowers whistleblowing about?

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              the most plausible explanation I’ve heard is that the dod office of the inspector general was conducting a huge multi-year audit effort to untangle literally trillions of dollars of unaudited defense spending, and that the computer systems holding the data were located in that part of the building

              ofc the fact checkers are out in force giving ten pinocchios to all of the conspiracy theorists who don’t have enough common sense to tell the difference between “we don’t know where this money is” and “this money is missing,” lol

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                You don’t need a missile to destroy documents. Auditors routinely get owned by “Documents? What documents? You must be mistaken. Those documents never existed my dude.” and “Oops, Bob the intern accidentally shredded those documents. And those documents. And coincidentally every single document that would incriminate us.” We’re talking about a government agency that has never once passed an audit lol