Yea that was pretty much my view on it yesterday, but I have never dove down that rabbit hole and I feel like it is worth the research. There are numerous things that I thought were "fact" only a few years ago that I now realize are total lies. Maybe after my research I'll come to the same conclusion as you, but maybe I won't. Until I research all I'm doing is assuming.

the flat earth conspiracy exists purely to discredit other real conspiracies

that’s sort of true.

the rationally offensive flat earth conspiracy is pushed/advertised by the flat earth psyop to drive people away from the subject and, as a fringe benefit, well poison / discredit other legitimate conspiracies.

humanity requires no conspiracy (nor help) to be stupid and wrong as they historically always are. the shape of the world just is. conspiracy doesn’t have any impact on it, nor necessary relevance to it.

the earth is round

and if it wasn’t, would you want to know it? this is an important question, and one only you can answer - for yourself.

anyone who believes / pushes otherwise is either so stupid and gullable that they are likely to forget how to breathe

there are virtually no people this stupid. certainly not in the numbers advertised to us on the interwebz.

or are controlled opposition

bingo.

pushing it to discredit conspiracy theorists as a whole.

actually, as i said above, this is just a fringe benefit because the psyop has been so successful. the primary purpose of the flat earth psyop is to suppress and drive people away from the valuable subject.

if you would like to explore/understand earnest flat earth research further, or merely criticize it, please join us on flatearthresearch. i can assure you it is not studied by idiots or anything like what the heavily advertised (i.e. funded) flat earth psyop falsely portrays it as.