I read every word of that, and I have to say, what a load of SHIT.
Taxi, you went on for several paragraphs about how rotten corporate America is, as if any idiot didn't already know that.
It's the way it is because that's what works, and frankly it works fine for the consumer as well and the multi-million dollar "big daddy" at the top of the corporate ladder.
I've known since my very first job about the circle jerk that is the corporate "board of trustees". Sure it's the same 100 or so people on the board of just about all the largest companies in a given city, this is nothing new or nefarious. Many of these people in Houston I know personally. They make a shit ton of money to just sit in on meetings, the CEO says "hey I want to do this with the company" and they rubber stamp it.
These boards are required BY LAW to protect shareholders,
not some secret society controlling the world
Taxi, I'm in advertising. It is not just my job, but my CAREER, to convince people to buy shit. Does this make me somehow connected to the vast evil machine? Because if so I need to talk to the evil overlords and make sure I'm getting my cut of the evil conspiracy loot.
Holy shit I love this one...
"Does any average person really think these conglomerates care about 'the average person'."
Do you honestly think they're SUPPOSED to? They don't even KNOW the average person. The people making decisions are so far removed from "average people" that all they are is a "consumer", not a person with a name.
And can you really blame them? They're dealing with an operation so big, they can't possibly get to know their own employees let alone the entire consumer public!
Oh and this gem,
"Such as Halliburton’s sweetheart deal with the U.S. government, where they garnered a no-bid, exclusive contract worth billions of dollars to supply the U.S. military for Operation Iraqi Freedom. Call me a conspiracy theorist... but I don't think I'm going out on a limb at all when I shine the light on the fact that Dick Cheney was the fucking CEO of Halliburton. Coincidence, much?"
YES, it IS a fucking conicidence.
Or maybe not!
MAYBE, the guy who made Halliburton such a massive success was picked because
"gasp" he was SUCCESSFUL!?!
MAYBE Halliburton didn't have to bid because "gasp"
NO ONE ELSE HAS THE SAME CAPABILITIES HALIBURTON HAS!?!
But these are just the typical facts that conspiracy theorists ignore when they're inconvenient.
And now for some SERIOUS backpedaling!!!
8) Do you believe that the planes striking the twin towers were the ultimate cause of every building's collapse in that immediate area?
Yes I do.
The impact of planes into the WTC was an event that so far was unexperienced in all of human history. There hasn't been a catastrophic event that even remotely compares to it engineering-wise. Additionally, the WTC was of a unique design, with it's inner and outer skeletons being the way they were. So I think those two facts have caused many otherwise rational or intelligent people to understandably jump to assumptions, to not believe their eyes, or to quite simply guess. I think the majority of "conspiracy theorists" simply aren't thinking things through and are basing their opinions on biased, skewed data that leans towards their own particular point of view. Add some active imaginations into the mix, and you have a hundred and one different theories for why the towers (and #7) fell.
I think that if anyone looks at the mechanics of the towers objectively and without assuming that they were intentionally detonated, and if they really pushed themselves to understand the mechanics and engineering involved, they would realize the same thing - the planes brought the buildings down.
But of course that's difficult to do because it brings into play the human ego, which rarely likes to admit that it's wrong.
Wow Taxi, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the POLAR OPPOSITE of what you said about a year ago?
Does the champion of the deliberate detonation theory on TribalWar now acknowledge that everything he's been saying for years about the buildings being an inside job was utter horseshit?
Oh dear god and then there's these lovelies...
"I find it difficult to believe that passports from the hijackers would be found amongst that wreckage."
Yeah I'd find it pretty fucking hard to believe too, good thing you have to
CHECK IN USING VALID ID WITH THE AIRLINE BEFORE BOARDING A FLIGHT. Holy shit Taxi they didn't identify the hijackers by magically finding their pristine passports in the molten wreckage,
they looked up the airlines logs
"I find it difficult to believe that the multi-billion dollar air defense system that has been in place and working perfectly in this country for many years decided to suddenly go to sleep, failing to follow even its most basic standard operating practices."
What the hell are you talking about? Please show me an article about this perfectly working defense screen in 2001, consistently saving us from decades of attacks in the lower 48.
"I'm going to sit down and really map out my entire point of view one of these days, and I can already see it it in my head. I want it to read like a timeline and a fact base, where events on the timeline can be pulled up on a link-by-link basis."
See here's the problem, every damn word you typed up is your opinion, your point of view. A year ago you were stark raving mad, railing against Bush for causing this quite directly, and making ridiculous claims that it was not only an inside job, but that we quite literally brought down the buildings with explosives that were magically placed there while everybody was looking yet nobody saw. NOW, your point of view has gone through such drastic changes I honestly am beginning to think this is just an elaborate troll.
For fuck sake Taxi get a grip.
I half want to erase everything I just typed and replace it with "lol shut the fuck up faggot", because that's about what I think your ranting is really worth, but I won't because I want you to know I actually read that garbage, every word, and want to offer a hearty fuck you for wasting my time.
So here's the deal, I genuinely hope you get your shit together because as much time and thought as you appear to put into this nonsense, you could probably BE at the top of that dreaded corporate ladder if you applied half the effort and passion that you waste on this shit. But don't let me stop you from your beloved hobby, please waste the rest of your life on this movie of the week bullshit.