autotldr t1_iugi63v wrote on October 31, 2022 at 3:30 AM

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 96%. (I'm a bot)

> Conspiracy theorists, who claim UK terror attacks have been staged, are tracking down survivors to their homes and workplaces to see if they are lying about their injuries, a BBC investigation has found.

> Mr Hall suggests that those who were killed in the attack are really alive and living abroad. He also promotes theories that several other UK terror attacks were staged.

> He refused to address questions about whether he really believes UK terror attacks were staged and if he understands the harm his conspiracy theories and tactics cause to the survivors of these attacks.

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Inevitable_Price7841 t1_iugpi74 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 4:47 AM

Why would an evil global cabal, who controls everything, bother to "stage" events? Surely they would have the means and the motivation to initiate those attacks for real? By the way, my question is rhetorical. Please don't bother trying to "red pill" me.

IneptusMechanicus t1_iuhgpf6 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 11:17 AM

>Why would an evil global cabal, who controls everything, bother to "stage" events?

Most conspiracies tend to fall apart on the 'why', it's technically possible a group of people could stage conspiracies of that scope, though as a species we're pretty bad at it, but in most cases there's simply no rational reason to do so. The conspiracy theories seem to either come back to people staging something as a pretext for something they could just do anyway, or their motivation being 'dunno lol'.

Inevitable_Price7841 t1_iuhouup wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:40 PM

I suppose being technically possible is a good start, but most conspiracy theories fail to even meet that requirement lol. Staging a massacre or crisis makes no sense when you consider the number of psychopaths who would gladly carry it out for fun.