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Not necessarily. It is also a sign if cognitive discomfort. A lot of times, lashing out, is a defense mechanism.☆Ad hominem attacks against strangers.....
The first sign of a disinformation troll.☆
Paid shill perhaps ?
It's a "reduction strategy." By demeaning who you are, your position in society, how you think, etc., and turning you into a person of low character, or into some sort of "enemy," or "other," a person can then dismiss anything you say out of hand, without actually giving any serious consideration to the evidence or arguments you present. Folks do this to avoid considering any epistologies what would threaten their ego or cherished world views. But you are right, at this point, on this topic? It amounts to the same, discussion at this is stupid and futile.
Don't sink to doing the same by demonizing him with ad hom., just because he won't consider YOUR arguments, or you are doing the same thing in returen. This will only lead to you not being able to agree and have constructive areas of discussion in other areas.
The mass media gets folks to do this on a whole host of issues. It is why there is so little real discussion on anything anymore.
Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia
I mean, look at this thread.
BackAgain will argue for pages and pages that it is possible that a well organized cabal could corrupt an election, but find it impossible to believe that they would conspire and collude to do 911?

Stolen Elections
When Stacey Abraham loses an election bid, it was all about election fraud and voter suppression. But when President Trump loses a re-election bid after crystal clear evidence suggesting massive voting fraud of various types, any claim of a stolen election is just kook “conspiracy theory” and...


No, I seriously doubt a paid shill or a disinformation troll.
It would be far easier to pull off the 911 operation than the election rigging. BY FAR. If a person can credibly accept the election rigging, it shouldn't be a stretch to understand the 911 operation, if they go into it with an open mind, and understand the motives, and the fact, that the same folks are behind both, for the same reasons.
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