Is this him or the brain worm speaking?
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RFK takes no sides.
The brain worm took both sides. The left and the right hemisphere.
Yes
That is, it's both.
Is there a difference?
"Please. This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who..."
He killed my auntie!
This man is an idiot.
....there is no Robert, only Zuul!!! HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
The holocaust? Well hey man, I don’t pick sides. We don’t have all the facts ya know?
I'm sure there were good people on both sides.
Very centrist, very moderate, very nice 👍
Here's to the troops! All the troops! Both sides.
Very misleading headline. It is easy to interpret that as he won't take a side between Al Qaeda and the US. Even the first tweet makes it clear he's talking about the "debate" about who was responsible. The later clarifying tweet makes even the conspiracy angle more clear.
I don't like stupid conspiracy theories, and the first tweet still makes him look bad. But the headline author had to see how the ambiguity would be interpreted.
For the record, I dislike RFK, Jr. and his stance on vaccines immensely.
Oh, I didn't think for a second he was talking about Al Queda vs US. That dumbass is always chest deep in bullshit. Of course he's agnostic about 9/11 conspiracies.
9/11 conspiracies
Like?
possible Saudi involvement in the 2001 terror attacks on the United States
The saudis being involved isn’t a conspiracy. The first 9/11 commission report from decades ago at this point talked about them being involved. However the Saudi government is a complex web of different systems and power levels with their own sort of autonomy.
Conspiracies are things like 9/11 being an inside job, or there was bombs planted in the building, or that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.
It isn't a conspiracy theory.
Some conspiracies are real.
So how did two wrong countries get invaded lol
Iraq was a mistake (well, really more a crime), however Afghanistan was a complicated mess. The Taliban was harboring al-Qaeda. Was it a mistake for us to have spent decades there? Absolutely. However for going after the people who planned 9/11 it was the best area at the time for us to be in.
9/11 wasn’t a government planned operation or done by a group with any one boundary. It was planned by an ideology without borders and with no official uniform or state flag. They simply wanted the US and the west to pay for crimes that went against both their ideology and that were wrongfully committed against their neighbors and friends. It was incredibly complex. We could even go all the way back and blame Bill Clinton for not having arrested Osama when he was given the chance, three times. No one expected them to do what they did to the level it was committed.
The Taliban offered to arrest and hand OBL over to the US after the 98 embassy bombings, and nobody cared or responded, as official US policy was either that the Taliban were lying and/or they were not a real, legitimate government.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2011/9/11/taliban-offered-bin-laden-trial-before-9
Before we invaded, the Taliban offered to try OBL, then offered to hand him over to a neutral third country to be tried, as we were invading.
The US just demanded he be presented to us, as much of the world warned that a large scale invasion and occupation would be disastrous.
https://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/07/ret.us.taliban/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80482&page=1
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/oct/14/afghanistan.terrorism5
While the language of the authorization for use of military force focused on combatting terrorism and spying on US citizens, the language used by Bush and other Admin officials made it plain that we were planning on nation building from day 0.
Both wars were pathetic blunders and the people were misled about reasons why they happened. I guess people got to cope either by larping the koolaid or going full tin foil but never admitting that it was straight mistake. People who made them are still in charge now tho
Having a shitty, or even traitorous, legitimate political opinion is one thing; being unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy is entirely another. Not taking sides between reality and delusional conspiracy theories is even worse than not taking sides between the US and Al Qaeda!
Damn, for a second I thought he was cool. 😞
"Not taking a side" is taking a side. It says you're a fucking Looney coward that can't accept objective fact
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted on social media Friday that it's "hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn’t" when it comes to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
He followed that post a short time later with another saying that he was referring to an almost two-week old segment on CBS's "60 Minutes" about possible Saudi involvement in the 2001 terror attacks on the United States.
In a third post about an hour later, he wrote "speculation about what our government may be covering up is rife outside the mainstream of our political culture" and the way to restore trust "is through honesty and transparency.
The collapse has been frequently cited by conspiracy theorists who claim it was a controlled demolition or some kind of inside job.
Kennedy, who has also blamed the CIA for killing his father and uncle, previously appeared as a guest on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' 'Infowars' show.
In 2022, former President Donald Trump cast doubt on any connection between Saudi Arabia and the 9/11 terrorist attacks when he defended hosting a Saudi-funded tournament at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.
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possible Saudi involvement in the 2001 terror attacks on the United States
Fake news still dancing around this issue... Man the only other group who get stronger grip on the american elites are fucking Israelis
When are we going to start making these shills register as Foreign Agents?