For all you Moon “Landing” apologists, ask yourselves this: why were the missions launched from Florida?
Florida never signed the Articles of Confederation and because of this could not file an estoppal from the joinder created by the Federal government* and had to participate in the fraud.
*Under the Supremacy Clause
Very true. And the most dangerous conspiracy theorists are the anti-vaxxers.
This. In my home state health services are reporting a greater number of measles cases. Poor kids are getting sick because herd immunity is starting to get thin.
Anti-vaxxers are only going to kill a few thousand people each year in the near future. That could go up quite a bit but on the other hand it’s technically possible to reverse things within a few months if it gets to the seriously pandemic stage.
For climate change we are talking about killing hundreds of thousands a year now going up to the many, many millions in the near future. What’s worse, even if everyone decided to do something about it things are going to continue to get worse for a long while.
There seems to be a lot of insecurity among CT types, and not just about the CT topic. They hate having doubts about other beliefs (esp. religious ones) and so develop a mind set that requires “knowing” that there’s an evil group of people who are creating all these doubts.
And Jules Verne was in on the conspiracy!
He was French and explain why France has a “secret” island “nation” so close to us.
I’m bumping this because I am furious and disappointed at the comments I continue to read now that the Apollo 11 documentary has been released.
I’m disappointed because I honestly can’t imagine how absolutely stupid you would need to be to think that the moon landings were a hoax.
I’m furious because how the fuck can you be so stupid?
I recently learned that SMH means Shaking My Head. I’m smh right now. Holy fuck.
I don’t think so. I don’t see much promotion of CTs over here (on the other hand I might overestimate how widespread they’re in the USA). Even though there are some that are doing well, like antivaxers or Jewish plots. One thing I noticed, in any case, is the distinct lack of “native” CTs. There’s no French equivalent, to my knowledge, of JFK assassination, fake moon landings or 9/11 conspiracy. While there are French people believing in all these American CTs.
Could it come from French people in general trusting more the government and being less prone to assume that it’s out to get them resulting in crazy people too being less likely to fixate on this? That’s the only explanation I can think of at the moment.
I agree, mostly, that it is more about control. Some people react badly when they realize no one is in control. Then they realize they aren’t actually in control of their own lives, either. So they need someone to be in control, and a secret organization that no one can prove fits the need perfectly.
It’s this same thinking that leads to eating disorders. It gives a person a bit of control of their own lives.
I think there might be a bit of envy involved, too. They know they’ll never get to the moon, because they aren’t smart enough, or fit enough, or whatever enough, so maybe if no one actually went, it makes them feel that much less pathetic.
He had a whole fake moon made, in orbit, but he didn’t like the look of it, so he abandoned it. Cost $5B in adjusted dollars, and he just threw it away.
You know, he wasn’t real, right?
Don’t forget that the conspiracists are usually somewhat failing at the muddling through part. I rarely meet well-to-do people with relatively high powered, responsible jobs who are also total conspiracy nutters. It’s almost always some guy with a low-ish level clerical type job, in my experience. If Milton in Office Space wasn’t so obsessed with his stapler, I’d almost guarantee he’d have at least one pet conspiracy theory.
It’s the idea that there’s something out there causing society and the world to be the way it is, and by extension the way they are, that makes the conspiracists gravitate toward conspiracy theories. It’s a whole lot easier to take being somewhat of a loser, if you can attribute a lot of it to shadowy cabals and the machinations of the rich and powerful, rather than owning up to the fact that things didn’t fall your way, or you didn’t take advantage of opportunities, or whatever.
coughthe presidentcough
Do they have any explanation why the Soviets went along with the deception? It was a big black eye for them.
Here we go again. Reported.