Or at least events commonly considered in the bourgeois media to be “conspiracy theories.” Personally, I believe that Joseph Stalin was assassinated in 1953 by the Khrushchev clique to ensure their rise to power.

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    Totally open to the idea that something other than demolition took out the main towers, but there is no way those planes even loaded with fuel, caused both towers to collapse at almost freefall speed and almost entirely within their own footprint.

    • Okay, you lost me with that. Here’s the thing, the planes that hit the towers were 767-200, they weigh 82 tones empty. The plane that hit the south tower was going ~587mph and holding ~9100 gallons of fuel. Not going to do the math on how much energy that plowed into the tower, clearly a lot.

      Also, the towers were obviously not engineered for impacts like that. And the strength of steel starts to rapidly decrease with a few hundred degrees of heat.

      And idea that it’s weird that they fell in their own footprint has me miffed. How else are they supposed to fall? It’s a vertical column and the foundation was intact, it’s not like it would tip over. The upper levels began to collapse and that much weight carries a lot of inertia. The physics of how it played out look strange because it’s hard for us to understand things at that scale.

      Also, the amount of demolition required would not be something they could conceal. You would have seen flashes and the explosions would have been heard for miles.