A few things we never got a good explanation for:

4. Why this building came down the way it did without ever being hit by a plane.



The towers came down due to a combination of jet fuel burning very hot for an hour, after the impact destroyed the fireproofing, weakening the steel floor joists, causing them to fail while simultaneously pulling inward on the exterior steel frame, then it was a domino effect after that. The entire towers swayed feet from side to side after the impacts, so the entire structures being completely destroyed/weakened, leading to a catastrophic failure is believable to me.

Building 7 was hit by debris and burned for hours but collapsed in the same exact manner as the towers. Coincidentally, the CIA and Hillary Clinton had offices in Building 7. It just doesn't add up to me.

Agree with you about Vegas. Story just went away based on the amount of deaths/injuries

That our media and entertainment isn't absolutely overflowing with commentary, ridicule, etc. about the absurdity of the COVID era is an indictment on us as a people.

We couldn't eat inside, we just ate in enclosed bubbles by the curb, and we're not spending every waking moment ridiculing the people/thinking that led us to that?

After 9/11 I wasn't buying the conspiracy angle but after everything I've seen in the last 25 years I'm on the complete opposite side now.

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2. People dropping over dead in the Chinese streets from Covid - Around the end of 2019 there were videos everywhere of people just laying on the ground dead from Covid. As soon as it got to America those videos stopped showing up and nobody in America was just dead on the subway like was happening in China.

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Well at least you can set your mind at ease on this one.


The explanation why you didn’t get an explanation is that this never happened. Firstly, those videos weren’t in 2019, as the first official percolation over COVID-19 came over on Dec 31st as “pneumonia of known cause.”

What you were referring to happened in February, and it wasn’t dead people.

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This is why you shouldn’t get your news from social media.

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3. Russ and Audrey - In the first 2 movies they are both teenagers of similar age. Then, in Christmas Vacation (which happens later) Russ is suddenly younger. We are just supposed to accept it.

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Audrey got better looking since Europe too

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After 9/11 I wasn't buying the conspiracy angle but after everything I've seen in the last 25 years I'm on the complete opposite side now.

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I still don't believe the attack itself was a conspiracy, but Building 7 is inexplicable to me. I've yet to hear or read any logical explanation why an office fire collapsed that building in the same exact way a controlled demolition would have.

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Building 7 collapsing without being hit by a plane

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let’s break down why WTC 7 was more vulnerable than other buildings nearby that survived:

1. Structural Design

WTC 7 was built above a Consolidated Edison electrical substation.

To accommodate the substation, the building’s structure was irregular: large transfer trusses and girders carried loads in unusual ways.

This made certain columns (like Column 79) far more critical — once it failed, the load redistribution was insufficient to prevent progressive collapse.

2. Fire Vulnerability

Many nearby buildings also burned, but WTC 7’s fire protection was compromised:

Its sprinkler system had low water pressure to begin with and relied on city mains, which were damaged when the Twin Towers collapsed.

Backup water supplies (tanks and pumps) also failed, so fires were left to burn unchecked for about 7 hours.

This was unique — other nearby high-rises either had partial fire suppression or less sustained fire exposure.

3. Fuel Load and Fire Spread

WTC 7 contained diesel fuel tanks for backup generators (used by tenants like the Secret Service and Salomon Smith Barney).

While NIST found the tanks themselves didn’t explode, the fuel lines may have fed some of the fires and increased intensity on certain floors.

Open floor plans (large spaces with fewer firebreaks) allowed fire to spread more freely than in compartmentalized buildings.

4. Debris Damage

When the North Tower collapsed, it hurled massive steel fragments into WTC 7, gouging out 10+ stories of the south facade and igniting multiple fires.

Neighboring buildings like 90 West Street and the Verizon Building were damaged too, but their designs and fire control systems were more conventional and resilient.

5. Progressive Collapse Mechanism

Once Column 79 buckled from heat-induced expansion, floors 8–14 collapsed inside the building first.

This “internal collapse” hollowed out WTC 7 before the exterior walls suddenly gave way — explaining why it appeared to fall straight down, unlike other damaged high-rises that remained standing despite fire.

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I'm getting my news from my own lived experience on this one.

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What, you were in Wuhan?

Because no news outlet reported all kinds of people dropping dead in streets. It was all on Twitter/Tiktok.