Too many people would have to keep it a secret...

That's the thing. How many conspiracies have been exposed by armchair detectives using clues from the internet?

Of all the real conspiracies we know about all of them have been exposed either by internal leaks, governments releasing information or by journalists in the mainstream media. (Or combinations of those.)

Not once has there been an example of a conspiracy theory that started on the internet as what people would call a conspiracy theory, made specific claims so it was clearly not just random guessing and then shown to be true.

I never wrote that nor insinuated it. I am well aware of the USS Maddox incident, Tonkin incident.

I am addressing your bad logic where you are trying to claim that the US would have no problem murdering thousands of it's own citizens in an inside job because they've gone to war before.

Did the US secretly kill thousands of Americans to start the Vietnam war?

@CQD "Look..It's a question of cognitive bias really..Some people really don't want to have their worldview questioned.."

He said, with no sense of irony...

There have been quite a few false flags throughout history, are there any whereby a democratically elected government has directly and covertly killed thousands of their own civilians to trigger a war?

Off the top of my head I'm not aware of any, and certainly not in the last few decades

A good chunk of the "evidence" for the conspiracy theories comes from official sources.

Like the BBC on purpose announcing the collapse early. Or from alledged contradictions in reports. Or "confessions" from folks like Silverstien.

It would be very easy for the CIA to plant this evidence and let conspiracy theorists lap it up.

Nope, not even could, it takes months to prep a building for demolition.

And let us never forget "The magic mirror" theory 🤣

I find it particularly hilarious that this super secret conspiracy decided it was necessary to slip advance details of the schedule to... a news outlet.

There's also the question of why bother. Were they afraid that the news organisations, watching the events unfold, and each others' coverage of them, might somehow have missed one of New York's tallest buildings collapsing into rubble?

No need when it can be adequately explained by confusion in real-time reporting of a fast-changing event.

Not sure what any of this political stuff has to do with vast conspiracies. Everybody knows that the US, China, Russia, UK etc. etc. are acting largely from self-interest.