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

Lol a very pathetic strawman here I'm afraid.

No it is not islamaphobic to suggest terrorists who are Islamic exist.

It would be islamaphobic to suggest that random Islamic people were involved in the attacks simply because they are Islamic. But no one is arguing this.

You are either unaware of what the word means are you are being deliberately incorrect with the term to make a very very suply point.

Now speaking on avoiding questions you have not once addressed the issues surrounding your conspiracy. You believe the entire space program is faked.

Have you noticed that none of your fellow conspiracy theorists don't want to acknowledge your claims? Why is that you think?

I think its because your beliefs are an example of the type that other conspiracy theorists don't want their own beliefs compared to.

This is a great example of how conspiracy theories have to balloon into nonsense to try and stay consistent.

Here Markus is claiming that it is unlikely for Islamic terrorists to commit a violent act. When confronted with evidence that Islamic terrorists are capable of violent acts, he has to either accept this and negate his original argument, or he has to invent new conspiracy theories about all the other attacks. So what started off as a small conspiracy to commit one attack has to become a massive global conspiracy to commit attacks all over the world over a series of years. Even if you believe that 9/11 was commited by a small group, then this group becomes exponentially larger with each new attack they have to commit. Some of these attacks are more than a decade before the one that they actually want to commit!

(I also wonder if it means that it's also the same 3 guys who apparently demolished WTC7...)

A similar thing happened with the cranks at AE9/11. They spent years claiming that a building like WTC7 could not fail because of a fire. Then when a building like WTC7 failed due to a fire, they invented a whole new conspiracy out of no where to explain that away.

You can never be wrong when you can just explain away problems with new conspiracies made up on the fly.

They're good at planting little tiny demolition charges in the shape of acorns....

"Do your own research" - doesn't do 5 seconds of googling.

"I'm just stating facts" - claims turn out to be not factual.

"I don't have time to address any of your points!" - demands people watch 5 part series of hour long youtube videos.

And that Islamic terrorism doesn't exist

There's a world of difference between talking casually about things and claiming that conspiracies are 100% no-doubt-about-it real and that anyone not accepting this is government shill/member of the sheeple, etc.

Well for one I don't ask "20 questions". This is a mischaractisation that we here a lot as an excuse to avoid a handful of questions at most.

Usually if I ask a bunch of questions in sequence I'm making a rethorical point about how many question the theory begs or how many questions a conspiracy theorist has dodged.

If some came in here with such a claim at the time, I might ask why they believe this.

Is this an unreasonable question?

If the person then did their level best to not answer it at all, would that be reasonable or unreasonable?

But the comparison doesn't really hold though as the theory that the US and Co fudged intelligence reports is not an unreasonable or far fetched idea. The ideas we see here are thinks like the entire space program being faked or buildings being secretly demolished by 3 people or straight out holocaust denial.

You claim that theorists are just wanted to discuss these theories casually as just possibilities or fiction. But if you read some posts, it's pretty easy to see that's not the case. They are declaring these theories the obvious truth that folks like me are just too dumb to get. Have a look at the thread where it's claimed the space program is faked. It's a perfect example.

Do you believe that the op of that thread was reasonable or presenting the idea casually? Do you believe the responses were unreasonable?

Please note that I've asked you a grand total of 4 yes or no questions. I hope this isn't too taxing for you to answer.

But this isn't true.

Why lie about this?

OK let's pretend what you claimed is true.

What do you believe really happened to the plane?

After reading this thread I maintain my belief that Conspiracy theorists are mentally ill and that Boards.ie should not be enabling their behaviours.

Its also notable that still not one person has answered the question implicit in the thread title, about how and why these massive conspiracies are kept secret despite the thousands of people involved.

Perhaps. There is one obvious example in this thread of a poster who knows full well that he is lying and dodging questions, but at the same time what rational person acts in the way that he has? He clearly has issues and I doubt it helps anybody to have them on display like this.

Nah, this is just plain old arrogance, politics and play acting. I don't think it's fair to cast it as mental illness.

We have had people who claim to be victims of "Gang stalking". https://www.vice.com/en/article/aeknya/the-nightmarish-online-world-of-gang-stalking

This kind of claim would be more the type that your concern would be about.