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.
I'm not registered in that garbage bin. And never would be. And I prefer text over audio and especially video. The nature of human brain makes text the best way to share information. Because audio and especially video take a lot of resources just to extract useful information. Continous flow of expensive to decode data makes things worse, leaving no time to critically process incoming information. That is why video is always preferred by those who push narratives.
Things are even worse, if you dig deeper.
When you read text, you completely control your attention, information flow, you could reread anything that is not clear and do search and math just copying part of text you want to check.
Video is completely another thing, and you can't even imagine how it is dangerous for your mind.
When you look at turned off monitor, you could notice that it is covered by some dust and specked with flies. You completely control your attention and choose what to see and how. But when you turn monitor on and play video, fascinating thing happens. It is not you who is in control anymore. It is operator or video editor who manipulating your attention changing images and highliting things they want. Adding that most of resources of your brain busy with accepting incoming information, things become even worse. Really, video itself replaces your consciousness and finally you get just video watching itself. There is no any subject in that process anymore. So, there is nobody left who could notice that change and even nobody reasoned to do that.
That is why all malicious influencers, including flatearthers always prefer video and constantly push their target audience to their youtube shit.
Fuck your videos. Fuck your BirBrother Youtube. Fuck your methods and goals. You choose a wrong forum to attack.
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