asterisk8 said:What I see, all too often, the common denominator among moon hoax theorists, is a distrust of the American government. We start with the conclusion that "The American government is a pack of lying conspirators," and then we work backwards to get to, "The moon landing was a hoax."
This is a display of ignorance, not of theorists, but of the US government.
If you knew a tenth the shit they've done you would know to not trust a single word they say and always assume the opposite is likely true.
There is such a thing as a normalcy fallacy, this is what anti-conspiracy folks tend to cling to, the idea that an idea is abnormal and therefore cannot be true.
For example, despite mountains of evidence for 9/11 being fishy (don't even fucking start) the thing used to deny fishing is always "they couldn't have done that because they're the good guys and that's normal".
I find that statements to the effect of normalcy always root themselves in ignorance. Even among conspiracy theorists, each one think they are on to something and everyone else is stupid. Holocaust deniers decry 9/11 truthers, truthers decry deniers, moon landing hoaxers decry both, ancient aliens believers decry them all etc. etc.
And this is because truthers don't know shit about the holocaust and deniers don't know shit about 9/11 and none of them know anything about the moon.
And average joe doesn't know shit about any of it, decrying anything he doesn't see on the news.
This is the first clue that at least one of them is on to something, they unknowingly enforce politically correct (aka propaganda) views on their own peers. The snake eats its own tail. Which is entirely in line with CIA disinfo policy.
SilverWook said:All things considered, it would be a lot easier for Stanley to film a confession, and then bury it in his archives for eventual discovery after his death, than plant hidden "clues" in his films.
If there is a conspiracy, which would be the whole reason for him to do such a thing, then said confession would probably conveniently disappear after his death. Whereas "getting shit past the radar" isn't something they usually care about because it doesn't mean anything to normal people who don't interpret these things for years. And that's what it's really about, public opinion. They couldn't give two shits about what some people speculate on a sparsely populated conspiracy forum.
Actually that's not entirely true, they do employ people to troll forums that are too far out of line.