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.
Son, my knowledge got me retired at 55, doing things other people only dream of. I'm on my porch right now, loving life. Not sitting in a boogered up chair, being mr drinkbleach all day. If you were human, you would be listening to me.
No one gives a shit, you autistic boomer. Your worship of communism destroyed our nations and sent us whirling down the path of genocide. You represent everything wrong with the world.
You don’t have any.
No one gives a shit, you fucking dreg. You’re a useless eater. The Earth isn’t flat.
I never said the earth was flat. I just question the Chicago zoom. Nobody likes insults. But yours bounce off everybody.
What a broken fucking man you are. I've been reading your shit for years and a lot of the time I actually agreed with you. But you dont give a shit, I dont either but it's sad to see how this place changed overnight.
Create a problem, fix problem ruthlessly. Even here in a back ally conspiracy hole.
Then shut the fuck up and stop advocating for white genocide, you worthless sack of shit. There’s no fucking argument to be had here.
Also fucking die. You can’t move the goalposts now.
There’s nothing to question.
They’re not insults. They’re statements of fact.
Said the boomer, as though anyone gives a shit what his generation thinks when they did nothing but commit treason.
NO. I DON’T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT “AGREEMENT.” TRUTH IS NOT A MATTER OF AGREEMENT. IF I AM WRONG, I DEMAND CORRECTION. WHEN I AM RIGHT, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DEAL WITH IT. TRUTH EXISTS OUTSIDE THE SELF–OUTSIDE OUR DESIRES, OUTSIDE OUR AGREEMENT, OUTSIDE OUR FEELINGS. NOTHING. ELSE. MATTERS.
Yeah, we shouldn’t have let flat earthers in at all.
Correct, which is why flat earth has to be banned, no exceptions, no mercy.
Ok. Boomer hate? Do you know whose side I've been fighting for my whole life?
I've always agreed with no mercy, it's fucking alpha, the only way to roll. But killing mind think is over the top. You see it as a threat, I see it as thought freedom.