• DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    “Please. This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not bicker and argue over who killed who…”

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    The holocaust? Well hey man, I don’t pick sides. We don’t have all the facts ya know?

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    “Not taking a side” is taking a side. It says you’re a fucking Looney coward that can’t accept objective fact

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    Very misleading headline. It is easy to interpret that as he won’t take a side between Al Qaeda and the US. Even the first tweet makes it clear he’s talking about the “debate” about who was responsible. The later clarifying tweet makes even the conspiracy angle more clear.

    I don’t like stupid conspiracy theories, and the first tweet still makes him look bad. But the headline author had to see how the ambiguity would be interpreted.

    For the record, I dislike RFK, Jr. and his stance on vaccines immensely.

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      Oh, I didn’t think for a second he was talking about Al Queda vs US. That dumbass is always chest deep in bullshit. Of course he’s agnostic about 9/11 conspiracies.

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        4 months ago

        9/11 conspiracies

        Like?

        possible Saudi involvement in the 2001 terror attacks on the United States

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          The saudis being involved isn’t a conspiracy. The first 9/11 commission report from decades ago at this point talked about them being involved. However the Saudi government is a complex web of different systems and power levels with their own sort of autonomy.

          Conspiracies are things like 9/11 being an inside job, or there was bombs planted in the building, or that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.

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              Iraq was a mistake (well, really more a crime), however Afghanistan was a complicated mess. The Taliban was harboring al-Qaeda. Was it a mistake for us to have spent decades there? Absolutely. However for going after the people who planned 9/11 it was the best area at the time for us to be in.

              9/11 wasn’t a government planned operation or done by a group with any one boundary. It was planned by an ideology without borders and with no official uniform or state flag. They simply wanted the US and the west to pay for crimes that went against both their ideology and that were wrongfully committed against their neighbors and friends. It was incredibly complex. We could even go all the way back and blame Bill Clinton for not having arrested Osama when he was given the chance, three times. No one expected them to do what they did to the level it was committed.

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      Having a shitty, or even traitorous, legitimate political opinion is one thing; being unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy is entirely another. Not taking sides between reality and delusional conspiracy theories is even worse than not taking sides between the US and Al Qaeda!

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on social media Friday that it’s “hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t” when it comes to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

    He followed that post a short time later with another saying that he was referring to an almost two-week old segment on CBS’s “60 Minutes” about possible Saudi involvement in the 2001 terror attacks on the United States.

    In a third post about an hour later, he wrote “speculation about what our government may be covering up is rife outside the mainstream of our political culture” and the way to restore trust "is through honesty and transparency.

    The collapse has been frequently cited by conspiracy theorists who claim it was a controlled demolition or some kind of inside job.

    Kennedy, who has also blamed the CIA for killing his father and uncle, previously appeared as a guest on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ ‘Infowars’ show.

    In 2022, former President Donald Trump cast doubt on any connection between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks when he defended hosting a Saudi-funded tournament at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.


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    possible Saudi involvement in the 2001 terror attacks on the United States

    Fake news still dancing around this issue… Man the only other group who get stronger grip on the american elites are fucking Israelis

    When are we going to start making these shills register as Foreign Agents?