• Flying SquidOPM
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    563 months ago

    People are claiming it was a terrorist attack and such. Unsurprisingly, mostly on Newsmax and Fox News.

    • @Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      243 months ago

      If this were a terrorist attack we’d have had a group release a statement claiming to have been done by them to begin with. The whole point of terrorism is to enact political change through the threat of coordinated acts of violence against the civilian population and infrastructure. These conservative clowns always want to think they’re under attack to promote draconian laws to protect our “freedoms”.

      • @PunnyName@lemmy.world
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        223 months ago

        These conservative clowns always want to think they’re under attack to promote draconian laws to protect our “freedoms”.

        Because they’re the real terrorists.

    • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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      133 months ago

      That doesn’t surprise me. I could see something like this being done in a terrorist attack. Of course, I wait for the evidence, and don’t speculate wildly and publicly.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        173 months ago

        It’s the whole “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” thing again.

        • @ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
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          63 months ago

          I think it’s reasonable to ask questions, explore possibilities, and verify with evidence. What those “news” organizations are doing is beyond irresponsible.

          • Flying SquidOPM
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            183 months ago

            Asking questions is fine. Saying that a boat which you can see on video destroying a bridge didn’t destroy the bridge is entering into crazy territory.

            When a plane crashes, “did a naked mole rat chew through the control wiring” is generally not a question people ask. Because that’s a silly question.

              • @Stampela@startrek.website
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                13 months ago

                I mean… back in the 90’s the news from the other side of the world were kinda iffy, with obvious bullshit like a man in China having an hiccup for 30 years, or another being 200 years old, or the even more laughable idea of a school shooting in the US…

                Crazy is normal.

      • @kaitco@lemmy.world
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        53 months ago

        Of course, I wait for the evidence, and don’t speculate wildly and publicly.

        Yes, but think of the ratings and clicks garnered by speculating wildly and publicly! You’re missing out!

    • Transporter Room 3
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      113 months ago

      I’ve seen plenty of people not assuming a conspiracy, but instead believing shitty construction is to blame.

      Clearly these people have never tried moving furniture before. It’s not moving fast, but once things start going wrong a couch can and will easily push you through drywall.

      • Flying SquidOPM
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        143 months ago

        People on the internet got tired of being COVID experts and Ukraine experts and Israel experts and have moved on to bridge experts.

    • @spacesatan@lemm.ee
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      13 months ago

      But aren’t people saying that almost all saying they intentionally steered the boat into the support not that it was controlled demolition or something?