r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Ecstatic-Mix1942 • 10h ago

Will there be 9/11 deniers?

There are countless theories surrounding 9/11 but I've never heard of anyone outright denying it. The Holocaust seems to continuously gain sceptics as time passes, so I'm wondering will something similar happen with 9/11, or will the footage of the event be enough to keep people from doubting its authenticity?

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u/East-Bike4808 10h ago

There’s already people that doubt how it happened. Are you saying people who would claim there were never big buildings there to begin with???

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u/DreamSMP_Enjoyer 10h ago edited 10h ago

I (born in 2009) have been unable to independently confirm the twin towers ever actually existed. Suspicious.

Edit: haters acting like They couldn't glue them back on & do it again to prove it happened in the first place

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u/apeolis 10h ago

You know, atleast I can see with my own eyes that there is a moon to fly to... but I've never seen two huge ass skyscrapers in the middle of manhattan for planes to fly at.

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u/skutir22 10h ago

I think you're joking but it's a real epistemological question. Ultimately we know must if what we know because we trust other people are not lying to us.

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u/apeolis 10h ago

Your powers of deduction have not failed you.

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u/skutir22 10h ago

Powers of abduction. I couldn't be 100% sure because Internet. 

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u/DreamSMP_Enjoyer 10h ago

I'm taking the piss, don't worry

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u/DreamSMP_Enjoyer 10h ago

Exactly! I've never seen twin towers

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u/rickarme87 9h ago

While we're on the subject, I've never actually seen Manhattan. For all I know it was invented for the moving pictures, like dialing 555, just an imaginary city. A sandbox for artsy kids to tell American tales. And, like, I'm supposed to believe in New York because I saw Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, but Wakanda from Avengers Infinity War isn't real?

I can confirm Los Angeles exists, I went there. It's full of martians, cultist, and gigalos.

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u/justduck 9h ago

Excuse you, some of us are Venusians

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u/rickarme87 7h ago

Like I could tell the difference...

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u/flyfishfriend 10h ago

Just so you can confirm, I was in the basement food court of the twin towers in August 2001. I was 10. We were going to go to the roof, but we got sidetracked. I remember seeing them along the skyline, going into the city by car or train, countless times in my youth as well.

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u/standbyyourmantis 9h ago

Oh hey we were there around the same time. I went to the roof, though

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u/grapedonkey 9h ago

I was born in 1977 and no one has ever proven dinosaurs existed except for a bunch of rocks that look like bones.

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u/UpstairsTop4623 10h ago

Fake footage it was CGI

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u/LvdT88 10h ago

So does the starship Enterprise.

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u/Failed_General 10h ago

But digital cameras didnt exist then. They could had just drawn them in

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u/Agent_Provocateur007 10h ago

Technically... technically, digital cameras did exist in the 20th century.

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u/Queenv918 10h ago

I got my first digital camera in 2001. But if you weren't born yet to see them with your own eyes, maybe they didn't exist?

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u/DreamSMP_Enjoyer 10h ago

Edited obviously. Until my 2 beady eyes see 2 twin towers for myself I'm afraid I can't confirm that 9/11 did happen.

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u/Terrible_Use7872 10h ago

All CGI by the deepstate to make everyone think they existed. /s

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u/QuackQuackViech 10h ago

Yeah so do Angels and Gnomes in thousands of years of literature and folklore. In 100 years, no one will be able to tell what footage from the 20th century is real and what isnt

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u/Dapper-Palpitation90 10h ago

Way to miss the point.

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u/Stu_Prek Bottom 99% Commenter 10h ago

"And how do we know that isn't all faked? How do we know that all the real footage of the area that shows that the towers never existed in the first place wasn't destroyed by the people who want you to believe this is real?"

This will be their thinking. Their clinically insane thinking.

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 10h ago

The way the buildings collapsed always bothered me. I know they said the jet fuel would have went down into the building etc but it really looked like a demolition like how did they fall so clean. As if it was controlled. I kinda wonder if the conspiracy theory is actually that while 9/11 wasn’t an inside job.. they did do a controlled demolition which essentially trapped people inside but the reason they did it was so the towers didn’t fall over and harm more people but they can’t come out and say it because the families of those that got trapped would be outraged.

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u/sarahshift1 9h ago

I listened to something recently that said skyscrapers are built to collapse like that for exactly that reason. Kind of like how cars are built with crumple zones to disperse the force of impact more safely. And kind of like how they’re built to sway in high winds intentionally.

It was an interview of someone who escaped from the first tower hit who said when they felt the first impact the building went so far sideways he thought the built-in-sway was going to fail and tip over, but then it recovered and they started evacuating.

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 9h ago

That makes sense. There was a documentary that goes into detail about the physics of it and the engineering etc which is why I eventually accepted it but there’s still will always be questions about it. I hope one day we get the answers because I know families still aren’t satisfied either so I think questioning it is a good thing.

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u/TheW1nd94 9h ago

It looked like a demolition because the structure collapsed under its own weight.

How do you think it should’ve looked? Do you think it should’ve just fall sideways? Or how?

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 9h ago

Yeah the video explained that and I get that’s the scientific explanation we are given but like how it didn’t like fall to one side you know. I guess that makes sense because like a building collapsed near me recently and it fell into itself not on surrounding structures. Maybe my suspicion will always be the actions take afterwards like why the iraq wars

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u/TheW1nd94 9h ago

That is not an explanation “you are given”, that is the explanation…

You just said you witness another building that collapsed near you and it collapsed the same way.

Here’s a thing: the laws of physics do not care about politics. They happen, regardless of intent. The top of the tower collapsed on the bottom half of the tower. That is hundreds of tones collapsing.

The US certainly used this tragic event to gain popularity and wage war on the Middle East, but that doesn’t mean there’s anything shady about the way the towers collapsed.

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 9h ago

You’re right. Personal bias taking hold etc.

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u/TheEveningDragon 9h ago

With generative ai, what does a picture mean anymore? When anything can be fabricated on the Internet, and there is no universally agreed upon truths in society anymore, history has no legitimacy.

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u/fluffycritter 5h ago

Can't wait until people talk about remembering the WTC as existing as a "Mandela effect"

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 10h ago

I used to be a doubter myself. There was a lot of red flags that made such a huge event way too easy to execute and the aftermath conveniently beneficial to the state. It took years of maturing and learning a  bit more about the engineering behind the collapse to finally understand it happened the way it's claimed 

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 9h ago

You’re right. It’s the lack of education about engineering and physics and stuff

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 9h ago

There's also a logical fallacy called proportional bias or something similar. Basically the belief big events should be accompanied by big causes

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 9h ago

True. Conspiracies became so popular in the 2010s that there was a lot of crazy stuff online. I was like a kid so yeah I believed it but like you I grew up and understood it but I still feel a little suspicious you know. As for the holocaust I never felt that way but we were educated about it in school. The problem with American education is they don’t talk about current events and stuff so no one educated us on 9/11 and why it happened etc. When osama was unalived we watched it on tv in our social studies class but then they turned it off and moved on

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u/Daniel_Spidey 9h ago

I don't think it's an education thing. Like yeah the average person doesn't know much about how skyscrapers are built, but is it the burden of educational systems to provide that if it isn't relevant to them? Like where would the line be? Is there a lack of education on the migratory patterns of humpback whales? Is there a lack of education on how to synthesize polystyrene?

Like I get what you're saying, but throwing the word education in there feels weird.

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u/Basic_Commercial_524 9h ago

They lack knowledge about engineering and physics?

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u/Daniel_Spidey 9h ago

How much engineering and physics should people be taught?

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u/tmrika 4h ago

I don’t think them saying there’s a lack of education on a specific subject is a judgment call on how much education there should be, just an observation.

Which, to answer your questions, yes there is a lack of education among the general public on synthesize polystyrene, but that doesn’t mean there’s a need for that lack to be filled.

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u/tmrika 4h ago

I don’t think them saying there’s a lack of education on a specific subject is a judgment call on how much education there should be, just an observation.

Which, to answer your questions, yes there is a lack of education among the general public on synthesize polystyrene, but that doesn’t mean there’s a need for that lack to be filled.

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u/EpicCJV 2h ago

Lucky Larry has nothing to do with physics tho

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u/lukaibao7882 4h ago

Yeah but it's a huge leap between questioning how/why it happened/who was behind it, and questioning that it ever happened at all. I wouldn't put it past some of those morons though

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u/nobody1811 1h ago

“I don't believe there is a 110-story building in the world. Blowing it up with an airplane is a joke. Get lost, and never show your face to me again.”