THIS^^^ right here is the primary go-to "argument" against flat earth ... ridicule. And that by itself speaks volumes. People have been progammed into believing it. 95% of the population, if asked to provide evidence for why the earth is a globe, come up empty. At most you'll get the old "ships disappear over the horizon" and "NASA has pictures of the earth", but that's only in the 5% who have any answer at all.
You see that with other deceptions: 9/11 and also the h0Ɩ0h0αx. With the latter they also tack on "guilt", claiming that if you don't believe that 6 million tribesmen were slaughtered in gas chambers by the nαzιs, it means that you favor the extermination of Jєωs.
For prudential reasons, if I were a Catholic prelate, such as Bishop Wiliamson, I would avoid the subject of flat earth because the ridicule you'd receive could be an impediment to winning souls to the faith and to Tradition. Yet His Excellency has give sermons on Oklahoma City and 9/11 ... and also famously got into trouble regarding the Holohaux. He has not avoided these subjects because, as he's said, the truth matters and these are all part of the grand deception.
In any case, I too was very skeptical at first due to the programming since infancy. You go from planet mobiles in your crib ...

... to your first ever science project in school consisting of making a solar system model with styrofoam balls. Every teacher has a globe on her desk. You see the stuff about the "space program" all over TV, in the media, in movies (with one of the movie companies having the globe for their logo). You see this nonsense everywhere.
Every kid wants to grow up to be either a President or an astronaut (as you're indoctrinated through the education system).
When the Challenger disaster happened, teachers rolled TVs into the classroom to further indoctrinate the kids. Do you know that most of the "astronauts" that were "killed" in that disaster are still alive. Amazingly, 3-4 of them had "identical twins" and the others either slightly changed their names (started using their middle names) and went about their lives (after undoubtedly taking a huge payoff).
Hitler bad, Uncle Joe Stalin and the chubby loveable Churchill good ... and it goes on and on and on. We've been lied to about EVERYTHING. Moon Landing was a hoax precisely in order to perpetuate the myth of our living on a spinning ball and to further instill the propaganda.
But here's the thing. I think that my eyes were opened to the grand deception on 9/11. From there you start digging and digging. I listened to a lot of Alex Jones. Now, he's a gatekeeper on certain issues, but he also exposes a lof of the evil out there.
Then it took me a bit longer to wake up to the moon landing Hoax.
But even for me, there was initially huge skepticism regarding flat earth due to the programming. But I decided to give it a chance and start looking at the evidence. It got to a point that it was basically impossible to refute. One could go on for hours and hours about the phenomena that simply don't add up if we truly live on a spinning ball hurtling at breakneck speeds through the solar system, galaxy, and universe. I had already come to the conclusion that the earth was stationary and at the center of the universe. But flat? Yes ... flat, with a solid firmament dome over the top. Add that to the other scientific hoaxes like evolution or the Big Bang ... all calculated to promote their atheistic agenda.
And now of course we're faced with the COVID hoax. Follow the "science" they keep telling everyone. Yeah, sure, the "science".
It's one hoax, lie, and deception after another.
Yes. The anger. The ridicule. It's such a bizarre response.
I was a flight attendant in the 90's and looking over the Pacific Ocean in the flight deck I asked the pilots, "So where is the curve?"
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to see water curve. I just never could understand how that could be.
They said it's there and I said I didn't see it. They said you can see it at a higher altitude. ???
I asked if the plane makes adjustments nose downwards during flight because if we don't we will fly off into space when the earth curves downwards and I've never felt such adjustments. They said no it's not necessary.
I asked why the flight times from east coast to west coast and vice versa adjust for tail winds but not for the spinning of the globe and they told me it's because the atmosphere is attached to the globe. ??
I asked why when we fly from LA to London we fly over the arctic. At that point the first officer said kind of slyly, "Well, to know about that you would probably have to be a Freemason."
The captain got visibly angry and said, "What are you?! A flat-earther?"
I said, "No. I just have some questions."
He said angrily, "Well you sound like a flat-earther to me. Are you sure?"
I said, "No. I'm just a person asking questions."
He said, "Well, I just want to be sure. You sure sound like a flat-earther to me!"
Well, I stayed up nights thinking about this and questioning even more. I didn't know what Freemasons were except I heard they meet in those lodges like on the Flintstones. I felt like I was crazy.
The two things that seemed to be the biggest red flags were the visible anger and the mockery demanding that I identify myself as a card carrying flat earther. What was that about?!
And who could I ask questions about this? No one. They would either laugh me off or pat me on the head. So I never did. This was before Youtube or anything.
Something I just realized from some of the images of the domed earth is the two pillars and the arch---Freemason symbols.
I've looked into quite a bit on this issue, especially flight patterns, but never noticed that tidbit.
Anyway, yes Lad, I completely agree with you that fear of ridicule is the biggest obstacle to examining the evidence.
I also believe that is what is keeping people from examining the evidence with regards to graphene and the internet of things (including humans).
I mean, they are injecting graphene into every man woman, child, and baby on earth and nobody is asking, "Why?"
Well, I think it's the fear of ridicule, which the masonic late night talk shows certainly amplified and exploited, and the
fear of the truth and its ramifications for humanity and our loved ones.
It seems too scary to face, but face it we must.