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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCandace Owens comes out as moon landing denier.
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@RealCandaceO
Now for some light-hearted fun. Whats the one conspiracy theory that no matter what anyone says you believe is true. Mine is that the moon landing in 1969 was completely faked.
Just nothing about it makes sense. Especially NASA accidentally erasing the original footage.
8:58 AM · Jan 28, 2022·Twitter for iPhone
Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)It seems that some of them are able to hold onto some kind of mainstream credibility while they peddle talking points and arguments that serve the purposes of whomever has the goods on them.
For example, take Tucker Carlson. He seems to be getting nuttier by significant degrees all of the time.
So, sometimes I wonder.... If I had been compromised in some way that someone could exert influence over me to push a particular brand of nonsense, and whatever leverage they have is such that I really don't want to spill the beans, what else could I do?
One thing I could do is to simply sabotage my own credibility by going so far down a loony rabbit hole that I lose all influence.
But then I wake up and realize that once someone has their fans, there are utterly no limits on the shit those people will believe. Take Alex Jones, for instance. Is there one shred of cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs that man does not at least pretend to believe?
Reality is just not all its cracked up to be for some folks.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,455 posts)you say you hate. Now that's a real conspiracy!
captain queeg
(10,170 posts)Especially if you are making money talking shit. I wonder if they ever stop and ask themselves how it came to this, but by that time they are raking in the bucks and surrounded by other loons.
FakeNoose
(32,633 posts)Except ... Nixon was Potus then.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)is vilifying one of America's greatest and peaceful achievements.
G.O.P = Goons Of Putin
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... off the array of prisms, placed on the Moon's surface by Neil Armstrong in 1969, for many years. Scientists from around the world, not just the USA.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/the-apollo-experiment-that-keeps-on-giving
Candace Owens cares about power and influence, not understanding the world. It's amazing that anyone pays attention to people like her.
crickets
(25,962 posts)The "moon landing was fake" people are as bad as the flat earthers.
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)She is the dimestore Groucho Marx glasses of Trump world.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)Someday we will all realize, there is nothing real in the world. It is all as fake as Candace Owen's claim to be intelligent.
captain queeg
(10,170 posts)But in their case it wasnt so stupid. Its not like they were up on technology. And some probably did believe it but wouldnt say so. Im not sure how they are about vaccines, Ive read some of them wont take the shot but I doubt thats true for all.
Maru Kitteh
(28,339 posts)They do see cars, lorries and motorbikes powering past their horses at great speed all the time. So what was the disconnect there in your opinion?
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(595 posts)world wide wally
(21,740 posts)hunter
(38,310 posts)My only question is, how is Candace Owens not among them?
It all seems to depend upon how useful one is to the Republican Party.
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)Because constantly saying stupid things is a leading indicator of stupidity.