u/Nazibol1234

Where would the Lancasterverse versions of you be?

As for me, I would likely not be American in this timeline, assuming I am born at all. My family immigrated to the United States using the Diversity (DIVA) Lottery, which was enshrined with the Immigration Act of 1990. That likely doesn’t get enacted in the Lancasterverse due to how anti immigration the US is. I would actually be Singaporean, since my family was about to immigrate to Singapore until they got selected by the DIVA Lottery.

At least with something like the moon landing or 9/11 conspiracies you can see why the government might lie about the moon landing or 9/11 ( to win the space race and to justify a war respectively) even if ultimately you don’t agree with the conspiracy theory.

What benefit could the government possibly gain by lying about the shape of the earth? It’s not like most people believing that the earth is flat would threaten the government in any way, why would the government attempt to spend trillions of dollars to maintain such a massive conspiracy? For shits and giggles?

And lastly, why haven’t governments who are the enemies of the US government (such as China or Russia) contested the claim that the earth is a globe? Why would they agree with such a “lie” from a government they hate?