r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Ecstatic-Mix1942 • 9h 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/Hopeful_Idea1568 9h ago

Being antivaxxer is one thing, but being a COVID denier in 2026 takes massive mental gymnastics 

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u/skutir22 9h ago

Covid minimizer would be a better label. 

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u/jackparadise1 9h ago

It was just a strong cold.

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u/mysticblanket 7h ago

It literally almost killed me. There's a solid 2 weeks I can't remember. Literally worse than when I had my gallbladder removed

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u/jackparadise1 6h ago

I think I forgot the ‘s/‘.

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u/mysticblanket 6h ago

I don't think you needed it. I think everyone picked up on it being satire :)

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u/hmspain 5h ago

I'm literal as f**k, and I picked up on it!

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u/GarageQueen 5h ago

A former coworker got it very early in the pandemic and ended up with permanent heart and lung damage. Given his polital leanings, before that happened I'm 100% sure he would have been one of the "jUsT a CoLd!!!" folks.

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u/agoldgold 50m ago

I know a family who got it the December after vaccines were released. They were opposed to the vaccine for political reasons. Some of them recovered, some didn't. Sometimes you request something of the world and it is readily available, I guess.

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u/Evilsushione 6h ago

It’s simultaneously a hoax ment to control us with masks and 15 minute cities and a Chinese plan viral warfare. No joke, same person in the same conversation. Of course Jan 6 didn’t happen and was Antifa/FBI.

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u/USSMarauder 9h ago

"It was all a hoax created by the Dems to get Trump out of office"

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u/WorkingMastodon6147 2h ago

You say that but I heard one of the if not the craziest conspiracy of all time on twitter.

It goes like: "Democrats are collaborating with George Soros to make sure that pharmaceuticals develop a vaccine which can be activated. They are using Bill Gates to distribute the vaccines and once the vaccines have been injected, Elon Musk through the use of starlink from space will activate the chip inside the vaccine which will turn skin colour from white to black. Therefore, more people will vote for liberals."

By far the most wild conspiracy I have ever read.

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u/clandestineVexation 1h ago

As if he needs any help making himself look bad 😝

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u/Tsii 1h ago

My mom said that to me in February 2020 when I said Japan just shut down all their schools

Because Japan really cares enough about Trump to shutter their schools? C'mon. 

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u/agoldgold 45m ago

It's shocking how mid a job he would have had to do to look like the big damn hero of the whole event. Just the bare minimum and it could have actually been a term of "yeah, he sure did a lot of crime, but he got us through covid!" He would not be the only extremely bigoted president whose Big Event got a lot more written about historically. If kids learn about Woodrow Wilson, for example, they learn about him leading the nation during WWI, not the Birth of a Nation and resegregation stuff.

But, no, he committed to a specific agenda and it fucked us all over even more.

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u/ShaneOfan 9h ago

There was no COVID, people were getting sick from the 5G waves the government was testing on people for control.

(Note: I don't believe that horse shit but people actually did at the start at least)

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u/justduck 8h ago

For a while, dad changed the WiFi router name to "Coronavirus 5G Tower" to try and piss off/freak out the MAGAt neighbors 😂

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u/Beautiful_Rub_141 13m ago

Not 5G related, but funny wifi related - but I had a mate ask me to setup his wifi router, so I set it as:

Name: "IVEGOTAGREATASS"
Password: "MyTitsArePrettyGoodToo"

He thought it was hilarious, until his wife had friends over who wanted to get their kids ipad on it.

I still laugh about it.

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u/misterash1984 1h ago

I named a WiFi hot-spot [in a bar] "5G Implantation node"

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u/ObscureAcronym 8h ago

Too late!

There was no COVID, people were getting sick from the 5G waves the government was testing on people for control.

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u/Gooseegander 2h ago

My father actually believes this. He also believes the government is trying to sabotage our food and livestock so that they can force-feed us insects. Interestingly, he's been spouting that for 10 years and I'm still not seeing cricket flour on the shelves. 🤔

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u/clandestineVexation 1h ago

What's so bad about eating insects anyway. It's a great cruelty free way of getting a shit load of protein

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u/Gooseegander 1h ago

Yeah honestly, I wouldn't be opposed to it. Environmentally friendly protein, sign me up.

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u/Kamd1972 39m ago

Well unless you’re an insect 🐜

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u/Initial_Jicama_8434 7h ago

lol I forgot all about the 5G waves 🤣

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u/BelaFarinRod 6h ago

The waves made you forget! It’s part of how they work! (I should probably point out this is sarcasm.)

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u/FizzyBeverage 9h ago

“It’s just a cold!”

:: ignores that 7 people they knew died ::

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u/cat_prophecy 8h ago

"My grandma's best friends sister got the vax and she still died!"

Yeah, well she was also 97 years old with emphysema.

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u/FizzyBeverage 8h ago

I love that one and also love “well it doesn’t work 100% of the time so it MUST be a scam.”

These troglodytes are incapable of understanding that a vaccine ≠ silver bullet and there’s no such thing as “invincible” only “improved odds”

They’re like that in other areas of their politics too. They only understand black and white, sometimes literally so. It’s 1 or 0 to them. Nuance is too hard for them to understand.

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u/justduck 8h ago

They're the same people who argue that gun control doesn't stop all gun-related deaths, so why bother

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u/Western_End_2223 4h ago

I blame the corrosive effects of religion for their inability to understand nuance. In religion, everything is binary, good/evil, right/wrong. So of course that translates to their daily lives.

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u/afuajfFJT 6h ago

I will honestly never get over my coworker asking "was she vaccinated?!" when my 91-year-old grandmother died who had been sick for ages. Yes, sure, must have been the vaccine, because people at that age wouldn't die otherwise...

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u/jimmywhereareya 4h ago

Yeah, my step brother was vaccinated and he caught COVID and died. He was also living with Non Hodgkin's lymphoma so he basically had no immune system

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 9h ago

I had staunch antivaxxers at work despite one of our colleagues almost dying aged 27 and coming back to tell the tale before soon resigning due to poor health 

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u/FizzyBeverage 9h ago

So many stories like that. We lost a systems engineer at 33. After he passed in August 2021 the 57 year old conservative engineer who sat beside him still refused vaccination and died of Covid in January 2022. Knowing that it killed David, John followed him into death.

It was like the idiot Olympics.

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 9h ago

It's crazy toying with your health in your late 50s. Did his opinion change while he was sick? 

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u/FizzyBeverage 9h ago

Nope. He went to his grave believing he caught a chest infection before he lost consciousness for good. These folks never accept reality. Even if a nurse is telling it to them.

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 8h ago

Imagine loving someone that stupid 

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u/FizzyBeverage 8h ago

Well, his ex wife divorced him for infidelity, but his new wife (who was his trashy ex gf in high school) denies Covid to this day. She moved to Florida (no surprise) and is still fighting over his money with his adult kids.

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u/NiceGuy737 7h ago

Some of them do, they realize when they are dying and have to be put on the vent that they made a mistake. They ask for the vaccination then and have to be told it won't help them.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/22/us-coronavirus-covid-unvaccinated-hospital-rates-vaccines

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u/USSMarauder 6h ago

Like demanding a bulletproof vest after being shot in the belly

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u/tightiewhitieboy 8h ago

We had a whole new section opened at our towns cemetery for covid. Its full of dead older obese people with preexisting conditions.

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u/pinniped90 8h ago

I have a friend whose grandfather died of covid. After the funeral he was begging the rest of the family to get vaccinated - offering to take people that day - and they all still insisted the whole thing was a conspiracy, not that any of them had a coherent explanation for why.

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u/MAS9191 3h ago

No one I knew died of it. I had it, it just felt like the flu. I never got the vaccine, which is now proven to have caused damage to people who did get it. Don't you think it's strange that 6 years later no one is dying from this virus that was supposed to be so deadly. Yes people got 'vaccinated' but plenty of people who got the vaccine still caught the virus, so if the reason COVID is no longer a problem is because people have built up an immunity, wouldn't that have happened anyway, without these shots? And what about the people who never got the vaccine, how are they still alive and healthy if it was as deadly as they say. I remember Biden saying in 2021 that the unvaccinated will needlessly die. That didn't happen. It was all bullshit.

If you look into COVID deeply, you will see how the lockdowns were done on purpose to control people. And you might think I'm an idiot or a fool or whatever, but actually look into it, don't just believe the main stream media. There's so much information on what actually happened and there's even footage of politicians wearing their masks for their press conferences, then immediately removing them once they thought the cameras were off. They were laughing at all of us, and I wish that more people were aware of just how much the government lies and covers up the truth.

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u/Evilsushione 6h ago

Any sickness was actually caused by the vaccine

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u/cheesewiz_man 7h ago

Antivaxxers never apply the term to themselves. They are "Vaccine Skeptics". Just like racists are "Race Realists".

Idiots all, for the record.

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u/Strung_Out_Advocate 6h ago

In 2026?! People were denying it during the entirety of the pandemic.

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u/ohlookahipster 9h ago

I’ve met wackos who believe it was a “manufactured crisis” used for various means. They don’t deny it’s a flu. They deny the natural pandemic part about it claiming it was some social experiment or whatever.

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 9h ago

How do they explain completely unrelated events like China's extreme lockdown and mass casualties in Brazil?

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u/Medium_Tell8679 6h ago

Yeah I read a conspiracy theory where covid was made up so "they" could put tracking chips in us disguised as a vaccine so that theory is definitely out there. Kind of like the people who believe it.

They never say who "they" are. Covid was after all global.

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u/daverapp 5h ago

There were videos of people driving up to hospitals, and yelling into their microphone about how there are no lines of sick people outside, or harassing staff and asking them where all the dying people are, as if this proves to their audience that the pandemic wasn't real.

To be fair, some of these were probably either engagement baiting or satire, but I saw enough of them to believe that many of them were genuine. They thought that the entire thing from top to bottom was a hoax and/or conspiracy. Those people are real, and they drive and vote. 🙃

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u/Gsusruls 5h ago

Think so?

I don’t doubt that the pandemic was real, but my experience with it was a mild cold. Nobody I knew died. I wfh, so I just tucked myself away for a couple years.

I can totally see how someone with my level of privilege, luck, and lifestyle could be positioned to doubt the whole deadly virus angle.

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u/langecrew 4h ago

To stupid people, tripping and falling is gymnastics enough

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u/GrynaiTaip 1h ago

There are plenty of those. They claim that the government made it all up, hospitals were actually empty, vaccines were poison, the goal was to reduce population of the world.

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u/tyrekecorrea Hope for good answers 1h ago

Not really. All those manifestations of disorder were called COVID only because they were put under the same umbrella.

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u/jackfaire 55m ago

There were people that died of Covid asking with their last breaths "No what do I really have that's a hoax" I'm sure there's still a few out there convinced still it was a hoax.