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Shoutout to the guy at the Sacramento meetup who called my moon landing doubts 'a psyop for people who hate paperwork'
Two Saturdays ago I went to a conspiracy meetup in a back room at a pizza place in Sacramento, mostly to hear the flat earth guy, and ended up in a 40 minute argument with a retired HVAC tech named Dale about whether the moon landings were faked. He didn't trot out the usual stuff about shadows and flags, he just said the whole debate is a distraction pushed to keep people arguing about 1969 instead of looking at the contracts and money moving right now, and honestly I still think the landings were real but I can't stop chewing on his point. Is there a name for this idea that some conspiracies get pushed on purpose to soak up all the attention?
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roseb1512d ago
The term you're probably looking for is limited hangout, though that's not quite the same thing as what Dale was describing. A limited hangout is when someone puts out part of a truth to hide the rest, but Dale's idea is more like a decoy or a red herring, where the point is just to keep people busy fighting. Your mileage may vary on whether that fits the moon stuff, but it's a real concept people talk about.
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