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^ So, in other words, MTV bro fuckstick Duffy knows less about this shit than we do. "Let me be clear. Plane hit other plane. Not good!"

FML. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 9:17 AM, DigDug said:

I'm going to think this was intentional until they can prove otherwise.

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I don’t believe you have considered the possibility that military personnel with plastic spray bottles we’re negligently focused on spraying vinegar at the jet contrails. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:44 PM, Leeroy Jenkins said:
I don’t know why I am surprised based on the current dumb ass world we live in but I still can’t get over how many people think this was an intentional act by the Helo crew.

Lot of people are just ignorant, been that way forever though unfortunately many now have voices that can spread online.

Negligence/incompetence/human error is the most likely culprit, it’s unfortunately just a part of life and all we can hope is our air traffic “system” learns from this and makes changes so that next time we go double or triple the 15 years we went since our last commercial accident like this. Hopefully this is the last accident like this any of us see in our lifetime on US soil.
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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:30 PM, Skipper said:

JFC.  Can't even read an actual active news thread without 50% cloak room bullshit.  

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And yet there are threads wondering why this site isn’t growing. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 2:49 PM, Texas Fight said:

 

A figure skater was denied from boarding the flight that ended in a fatal collision with a military helicopter near Washington, D.C.on Wednesday because his pet dog was too big, according to Russian state media.

Jon Maravilla told RIA Novosti that he was informed, during check-in, that his dog could not be carried on the flight because of size restrictions. Unable to board the plane, he departed by car.

A U.S. junior bronze medalist in pairs, Maravilla was scheduled to take American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas to Washington, D.C.
 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/figure-skater-jon-maravilla-reveals-he-missed-doomed-dc-flight-because-of-his-dog/

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Tell him not to watch Final Destination.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 9:17 AM, DigDug said:

I'm going to think this was intentional until they can prove otherwise.

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Are you hardwired for conspiracy theories? Genuinely would like to know why you think that is more probably than a fuck up in an air corridor with heavy traffic. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:44 PM, Leeroy Jenkins said:

I don’t know why I am surprised based on the current dumb ass world we live in but I still can’t get over how many people think this was an intentional act by the Helo crew.

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same kind of dumbfucks who think the LA fires were a conspiracy by the global elites

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:06 PM, Blotto said:

Are you hardwired for conspiracy theories? Genuinely would like to know why you think that is more probably than a fuck up in an air corridor with heavy traffic. 

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There are in fact people who seem to be hardwired for conspiracy theories, and social media has made it easier for them to connect with others who reinforce their beliefs, and to also read batshit conspiracy theories.  In the past, the village idiots were confined to their villages and the other villagers kept them in check.  Now they have a firehose of bullshit hitting them in the face, while at the same time wielding their own firehouses of bullshit.

For a lot of them, it makes their lives interesting and exciting when they think they have inside knowledge that most people don’t, like they are in a Hollywood movie. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:00 PM, Hate said:

And yet there are threads wondering why this site isn’t growing. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:38 PM, aggie08 said:

No traditional online message boards are growing in any meaningful way. Let's all face it: we're old.

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Read the last page or two of the BlueSky thread.  The kids aren’t joining message boards, or if they do it’s fucking Reddit.  

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:45 PM, David Dennison said:

Somebody might want to tell that to the President of the United States.

He's off the rails this morning.

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He should be.  Dozens are dead.  This isn't to minimize what a monumental fuck up this is, just that it's a reach to call it a conspiracy.  

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I get the bifurcation between fact news and the media circus although it will require that the President of the United States be considered part of the media circus and not a source of anything useful in understanding the crash and that alone is a sad indictment of our country.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 5:10 PM, Captainant said:

Welp. The President of the United States says the last guy and diversity is to blame. Nevermind whatever facts or details might be found by a formal investigation. Get right ahead to the @Hate (name is too ironic not to tag in this context of bemoaning "CR"ing the topic)

 

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he is literally the biggest piece of shit i have ever been a witness to.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 5:26 PM, 'stache said:

I get the bifurcation between fact news and the media circus although it will require that the President of the United States be considered part of the media circus and not a source of anything useful in understanding the crash.

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He's also very literally the head and commander in chief of the organization that crashed into the civilian air liner

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:00 PM, Hate said:

And yet there are threads wondering why this site isn’t growing. 

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That's weird, because platforms that allow people to post retarded political hot takes like twitter seem to be thriving just fine. Maybe we should open it up.

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It has to be a kick to the nuts of the ATC community to have POTUS hold a press conference and throw their entire profession under the bus. I can’t imagine that will be good for morale or safety.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:44 PM, wood said:

^ So, in other words, MTV bro fuckstick Duffy knows less about this shit than we do. "Let me be clear. Plane it other plane. Not good!"

FML. 

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it's time to stop being polite and start being real!

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:00 PM, Hate said:

And yet there are threads wondering why this site isn’t growing. 

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The reason this site stopped growing is peoples insistence on corralling every post. Feelings get hurt and posters start crying Off Topic and it stunts conversation. 

The very best threads and content this site ever produced were free flowing general type threads like urban meyer

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Instead of just scrolling past things that hurt our feelings, we go tell the teacher and and whine until he takes the bad thoughts away.

Then we turn around and talk about how everyone else exists in their echo chambers

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  On 1/30/2025 at 3:44 PM, Leeroy Jenkins said:

I don’t know why I am surprised based on the current dumb ass world we live in but I still can’t get over how many people think this was an intentional act by the Helo crew.

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Could a helo fly into a target moving that fast if they wanted to?

or are they saying someone in ATC put the 2 aircraft on a collision course?

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Federal government officials making official statements on the cause of plane crash involving a military aircraft is now apparently "political."  We are so fucked as a country.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 4:00 PM, Hate said:

And yet there are threads wondering why this site isn’t growing. 

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Maybe some of us could do some short videos of our favorite recipes or our our pets doing funny stuff and post them. Or maybe lip syncing and dancing. 

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  On 1/30/2025 at 5:56 PM, lemonlime said:

Federal government officials making official statements on the cause of plane crash involving a military aircraft is now apparently "political."  We are so fucked as a country.

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this isn't political, this is in the DT. 

I'm going to start enforcing this pretty harshly. I don't want any more crying about CR in the DT - if you think something is CR report it. Do not report multiple posts, report a post and say that it's a political discussion derail, a mod will look at it and split into a CR thread if necessary. 

Elected officials injecting themselves into the news cycle IS NOT POLITICS. 

  On 1/30/2025 at 5:58 PM, Chuckie Finster said:

Just fucking rename this forum "MAGA Central" and get it over with. 

The fucking President of the United States is publicly blaming this plane crash on DEI and yet we aren't allowed to discuss that because ... reasons.

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I missed the part where you weren't allowed to discuss anything and where this was in CR.

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