As ridiculous as FE seems, prima facie, until it's proven false, I keep my mind open to plausible explanations for why:
A) the moon landings were all fake and we've never "been back"
B) there are no actual photos of the entire earth from space (unless you believe the sizes of the continents are changing by 30-60% every decade or so)
C) the only people on earth that we give billions of dollars to, to go to space, are faking any, let alone much (or all) of the footage, using green screens, parabolic "zero gravity" flights, actual hair spray to make their hair stand up, underwater studios (unless you believe in air bubbles in space)
You might say "but these items have better explanations than FE". Well let's hear those theories also. Let's not shoot down those who are proposing an outlandish, yet mostly comprehensive, theory, one that explains these anomalies as well as a plethora of others, like how did they use radio frequencies that don't even purportedly bounce off the ionosphere to communicate hundreds of miles during WWII, how can the horizon be seen above an item whose entirety should be hidden behind it, why is Antarctica, aside from a tiny portion, entirely off limits to most civilians, how was Felix Baumgartner able to slowly float up to nearly 30 miles without drifting a thousand or more miles because of the earth's rotation, etc.
Suggestions that these things are not even worthy of discussion, on a forum dedicated to conspiracy theories, have to be disingenuous.
Original Research
Let's not also forget that FE researchers are literally the only conspiracy theorists doing original research. These people will buy lasers that cost thousands of dollars, cameras, etc., and go to some large body of water (large lakes, bays, etc.) where they can test their hypothesis with an actual experiment. Everything else I see on here is pure speculation, or videos of interviews involving various professionals with dubious backstories (Malone, etc.).
Does it Matter
Pertaining the "would it even matter" argument, you honestly don't need a lukewarm IQ to imagine how much it would matter, if FE was real.
Principles
Most of us are here because we couldn't speak freely elsewhere, because "hate has no place on our platform" type communist bullshit. Now we're going to make the same kind of rules, especially banning arbitrary content that is desired by a clear majority, on a platform with already-existing mechanisms for getting rid of low quality postd (downvoting, hiding)? If FE posts are banned, this place is no better than TGA, and don't even pretend to be pro constitution when you can't even stand up for free speech about a conspiracy theory in a conspiracy theory forum.
I'm out of here, for good, if FE is banned. Aside from spam, illegal, doxxing, banning has no place on our platform.
Only coverup it requires is someone treating to ban, or fire, you, if you do not go along with the official narrative. There are ship logs that are over 200 years old that confirms the Azimuthal equidistant map projection, if you can be bothered to go to a Library and dig up old logs of it. But stuff like this require people to actually do research, when they can just have someone ban anyone doing any wrong thinking instead.
There are pilots speaking up; try asking the pilot next time you go flying, if they seen any curvature or not. That requires you to do your own research though, can not have that, much easier to just let the people in control tell you what to think instead.
Flat earthers been sending up their own weather balloons, and guess what, results show that we live on a flat plane. But no, let's just call all flat earthers wild animals, that´ll show them.
What is there to gain? Well, generally people want to know where they come from. I think people would like to know that the Bible is true, that men moved by the holy Spirit has recorded what God told mankind, and how to avoid the judgement that is coming, and that has been building like a whirlwind, for our lack of faith in the word of God being true; and instead believing in silly things, like apes being our ancestors.
Yeah, like you actually went to a library instead of just watching some clickbait youtube video.
But azimuthal!
So airline pilots does not need to be in on a coverup that the earth is flat. The fact that no curvature can be seen inside the atmosphere should be common knowledge.
Here’s another FE fed larper…
You are saying I am pretending to be a fed?
Definitely.
This, right here, is the epitome of FE forum sliding: a bunch of unproven statements of fact that people would have to waste tons of time disproving, accusations of "not doing research" and "following the herd", the persecution complex, everything. The only thing you missed was a link to a video that we would need to "educate ourselves" enough to have a coherent conversation (priming).
You sound like a Critical Race Theorist.
If you aren't a fed, you're a dupe, but you're clearly reading from a script, bud.
Did you ever learn context clues? Guess not.
If you say so.
Nope. Wrong. You’re mentally defective.