No, that's just common sense. My definition is the spectrum from the fairly intelligent "the USG intentionally let it happen" to "the planes were holograms and the passengers were taken to a military base to be shot".
That's a spectrum so wide that its literally useless as a metric.
Just as soon list "people who believe the JFK assassination wasn't exactly as told" under the same insulting umbrella label as "believes that JFK shot himself due to quantum mechanics."
Perhaps. To be clear, I wasn't classifying what you said (not believing everything in the govt account) as in the truther category, only people who believe they intentionally let it happen.
As far as I can see, most truthers seem to belong in the stupid category, though not quite as stupid as the example I gave. The 'jet fuel steel beams' crowd.
most truthers seem to belong in the stupid category
They do, that's why to most people that's the entire definition of truther. Its a specific set of extremist beliefs about the event that necessitated a unique word for itself.
The same way that colloquially most things stop being "conspiracy theories" once they reach a certain level of reasonability and proof, even if by strict definition they still might be.
No, that's just common sense. My definition is the spectrum from the fairly intelligent "the USG intentionally let it happen" to "the planes were holograms and the passengers were taken to a military base to be shot".
That's a spectrum so wide that its literally useless as a metric.
Just as soon list "people who believe the JFK assassination wasn't exactly as told" under the same insulting umbrella label as "believes that JFK shot himself due to quantum mechanics."
Perhaps. To be clear, I wasn't classifying what you said (not believing everything in the govt account) as in the truther category, only people who believe they intentionally let it happen.
As far as I can see, most truthers seem to belong in the stupid category, though not quite as stupid as the example I gave. The 'jet fuel steel beams' crowd.
They do, that's why to most people that's the entire definition of truther. Its a specific set of extremist beliefs about the event that necessitated a unique word for itself.
The same way that colloquially most things stop being "conspiracy theories" once they reach a certain level of reasonability and proof, even if by strict definition they still might be.
That was a great episode of Red Dwarf!