> section of the fuselage from United Airlines Flight 175 landed on the roof
The only fishiness radar I have is around the subsequent power grab and civil liberties rollback by the espionage organizations within the USA. Certainly I wouldn’t have given more power to the organizations that so clearly failed, let alone who have had a track record in directly creating enemies for the USA.
Read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. It basically lays out the idea that there are groups with legislation like this already prepared just waiting for an opportunity to get it pushed through. It's pretty shitty behaviour but doesn't require a conspiracy to explain it.
That phrase is generally attributed to Rham Emanuel [1], and the sentiment is discussed in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals (page 89, Communications).
Rather large showing of bias to try to attribute that saying to Republicans.
Taking advantage of a situation doesn’t mean you caused it. This is correlation != causation situation. Anti-vaxxers didn’t cause covid but the captured the moment to exploit it.
I didn’t mean to imply that at all but I could see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way. Just that, as an non-American teenager, I was surprised how that happened and how the left capitulated to it. To me it seemed obvious that you shouldn’t grant even more authoritarian powers to agencies that have historically had poor oversight and results.
Its worse than that - at very best they failed in their primary role of defending the nation, at worst knowingly let it fly and then got surprised how bad it ended up (or not, who actually knows keeps silent).
No matter what is the reality, one thing is for sure - you should never, ever trust in any meaningful way a single word from anybody from those agencies. Whether they are incompetent beyond belief or just good liers is not so important.
> section of the fuselage from United Airlines Flight 175 landed on the roof
The only fishiness radar I have is around the subsequent power grab and civil liberties rollback by the espionage organizations within the USA. Certainly I wouldn’t have given more power to the organizations that so clearly failed, let alone who have had a track record in directly creating enemies for the USA.