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.
FE posts could be interesting only in one aspect - how pushing false narratives works.
We will perfectly see following:
And so on.
Exactly same things and behaviour we literally see every single day done by governments and MSM pushing their agendas on public.
I find a lot of different interesting and controversial conspiracy things on that forum, and no poster behave like FEr. Most are pretty open for discussion, able to accept counterarguments and think out their own explanations and develop or adjust their theory to explain things that does not fit.
Always remember, if FE pushers were running things, we would definitely be banned.
I have no doubts, it is just exactly same pattern. First they infiltrate, then began to flood place with their agenda evading any honest discussion, then use that as a proof of consensus, then demand power and finally ban everybody who don't support their narrative. Observed exactly that thing in every single narrative.
Funny, that those who think all that shit out, somehow can't think further than one step. They think out different narratives, but never bothered to think out different methods of pushing them, not even talking about new methods of dealing with consequences, side effects and so on. Even if goals of pushing different narratives is different, they use single scheme and hope that nobody will notice.
There is no need to confront FE, endlessly trying to prove something to those who inherently will never agree with you. Their behaviour is more that enough to uncover their real intentions.
I recommend watching the "flat earth facts" playlist from taboo conspiracy. I think you'll have a different opinion on the nature of the content, even if you think the science is nonsense.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLimb_UpOKm97RBTHJ_ehaz2W-wNOnTkrl
Just watch # 10 and 15 about Felix Baumgartner and try to imagine how to explain that on a spinning earth model. Like I've said elsewhere and in here, I don't believe the Earth is flat. However, some of these things are difficult or impossible to explain with our prevailing mainstream model about how the world works. Trees on the ground cannot perfectly drag the entire atmosphere 30 miles up, especially when there is almost no atmosphere up there. And if it can, then why are we told that rockets lifting off veer immediately into the rotation of the earth because of the Coriolis effect, and we are also told this is how hurricanes are formed. So which is it? Does the rotation affect your ability to go straight up so much that you can watch a rocket begin to arc immediately after taking off or does it drag the atmosphere so much that you can go straight up nearly 2 space in a slow moving balloon and then come back down right where you started? I'm not asking you to believe in flatters either, but you have to be honest with yourself, there is no way to explain these mutually exclusive things.
Again? Name me a single statement from that video that didn't circulated in internet in 90s as an obvious science-like joke.
Why you can't produce anything interesting at all by yourself and continue to appeal to lying "experts" from stupid videos?
Meanwhile, why FE videos freely allowed on YouTube and, most importantly - with monetization? You can't monetize even absolutely innocent video with shooting baloon in slowmo, but "hidden" FE - no problem. Is that why you, FEr constantly insist on watching your senseless videos?
Do you have your own thoughts? Why you can't appeal to plain logic and math? Why do you always need some "video" in your posts?
Does enormous amount of videos with coronahoaxer "experts" talking about all their "safe and effective"/"masks and lockdowns works" garbage prove anything?
Just like coronahoaxers you can't have a conversation without appealing to "expert". And just like coronahoaxers you appeal to your own kind of "science", omitting the basic fact about science - it is replicateable. Appealing to "expert" that allegely did some experiment and got some results is not a science at all. Because it could become science only when replicated independently.
Again, instead of admitting that FErs behaviour is exactly same as behaviour of LGBTXYZ+ and woketards, you continue to prove that statement, continueing to push the links to retarded "videos" made by ignorant people who don't even bother to study something to make their "videos" a bit more sane. Seriously, that funny excersises on FE in 90s between those who didn't for a second thougth that FE is something more than a joke, was much more scientific.
You even can't understand, that whole thing is not about FE istelf, it is about behaviour of FErs.
Could you honestly discuss a simple question - "Why FErs always try to push their FE in every single place where people want to discuss something out of narrative? Why did not they explore their FE on their forums among those who interested in it?". Without links to other peoples "videos", without appeals to "experts", without all that crap "go and read about this famous person feeling, how dare you to not believe him!", just using logic - explain that behaviour, right here and right now.
Or you just can't?
So no argument, just ad hominem?
Felix Baumgartner did his balloon stunt in 2012, so I don't really see what that has to do with "stupid flat earthers in the 90s".
If you would please explain how somebody can lift off from the ground with a balloon (without propulsion for transport), float up to 25 miles above the surface, and then jump back to the surface more than an hour later and land the same area (or even within the same 500 miles), I would honestly love to hear that. I think that's the thing that keeps these people posting about flat earth, because nobody can explain any of this stuff; everybody just attacks flat earthers as "stupid idiots".
I have personally debunked the space vacuum argument that flat earthers make, as well as another esoteric argument that's more related to the moon landing, so I'm not religious about believing in some science or another; I'm trying to understand the truth, especially with regards to some of these more confounding points (like Felix's balloon trip).
Again and again the same. Did you notice, that I didn't discuss your FE at all? The only thing I want to discuss is suspicious behaviour of FErs.
And you just trying to switch the topic. I will not allow you to do that.
Would you please answer my simple question - "Why FErs flood every single hard to find and rare antiglobalist, antiNWO, antielite, antiBigPharma and so on forum, when they have all modern social media to freely discuss their beloved FE theory with their fellows?"