So let me get this straight, anyone who has ever been presented to the public as having gone on any sort of space flight, from Gagarin and Glenn on down to our present day, has been taken aside and told something like "hey, this is all a big hoax, the earth is actually flat, and if you don't go along with the hoax, bad things will happen to you (and possibly your loved ones as well)". Furthermore, every ostensibly space-exploring country is in on the hoax, and during the Cold War, the USSR and the US carried on the hoax in concert, ditto China more recently. And satellites, if there are any (i.e., if they're not just high-altitude balloons that everyone thinks are satellites), fly around in big circles above a flat earth, and everyone involved with the technics of that, from all different countries including the DPRK, is in on the hoax as well. (I used to supervise the installation of satellite receivers, but nobody ever clued me in.) And nobody's ever betrayed the secret.
Neil Armstrong's comments and demeanor always seemed kind of strange, but I thought he was just being a reticent, aloof jerk, kind of like Calvin Coolidge in a spacesuit. (Don't get me wrong, I admire Coolidge as a president, but his taciturn nature would probably get labeled as "selective mutism" today.)
Actually only a few people need to be in on the conspiracy.
People are so indoctrinated that even after they see with their own two eyes objects that should be miles below the horizon they still don't realize they were fooled.
At the end, every single time, people come back to this argument. It can't be because how could soooo many people be lying. No, most of them are not lying, they're just as gullible as you.
Those who see the truth go on to make videos and write books about it, some get disappeared others get ignored. Are you pretending that there aren't flight control, pilot and astronots who know the earth is flat and witness to it?
You think the red bull guy who jumped from the highest point is in on it? Of course, not. What's my proof? You've seen the same flat horizon that he did and you're still not convinced.
No amount of irrefutable evidence will convince anyone until he at least accepts the possibility that he's wrong.
I know it's hard, I also thought FEs were idiots and mocked them but I swallowed my pride and gave it a shot. The evidence is overwhelming and every single objection I had has an explanation.
There's so many aspects to it. For example, the globe could have been proven beyond a doubt a million different ways - photo from space, transantarctic flight, 24 hour sun, etc. But all of it always turns out fake. Why are people faking 24 hour sun videos if they could just film the real thing? Why don't (((they))) let one, just one, plane of flat earthers fly over Antarctica to end this dangerous cult once and for all?
I could list so much more but there's no point since others have done all the work for me already.
For example, look at the video Save a flat earther by taboo conspiracy for an overview of some key points.
Wanna hear something interesting? Whenever someone is open to the idea that the earth is flat I tell them not to waste time on it because it's not that important. However, when someone ridicules the idea they really need to see the evidence to humble themselves.