Comment on Why were so many people believers in the conspiracy that 9/11 was an inside job

queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tiramichu@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This.

  Conspiracy theories are comforting because they are more pleasant to believe than the truth, which is that we’re all aboard a ship going full steam ahead with nobody at the rudder.

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  • BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It also gives people a sense of deep satisfaction believing they know some dark hidden secret nobody else does... regardless of how absurd it is

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    • Hyperreality@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vanity. It's the Devil's favourite sin.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nobody’s at the rudder, but also all of us are. Everyone has more capacity than anyone is comfortable with

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• acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And yet, this all powerful government couldn’t even fake finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to “validate” their invasion reasons.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Government incompetence is the main reason I didn’t go down the conspiracy rabbit hole. They’re too stupid to pull most shit off without tripping over their own dicks.

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• Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, at the time, in the west, Al Qaida were a largely unknown terrorist cell operating in far-away third-world countries. It seemed incredible that such a devastating attack could be carried out on US soil by a small group most people had never heard of.

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