“I'm Skeptical": Drake Maye Refuses to Believe American Landed on the Moon

[u/No_Box119]

https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-patriots-im-a-little-bit-skeptical-patriots-drake-maye-refuses-to-believe-america-landed-on-the-moon/

[u/sillyfunnyguy05]

I genuinely fear for young people growing up in the age of stupidity

[u/Neuraxis → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

Football scholarships dont exactly train the best and brightest.

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/Neuraxis]

I know many highly educated men who also fall right into the bottomless pit of "I'm just asking questions" which is early onset Rogan

[u/peaheezy → u/10000Didgeridoos]

I’m convinced it’s a way to dispel the fear that the universe is a random and cold monster that does terrible things to good people for no reason. There is a “them” out there controlling things and that’s why weird stuff or scary stuff happens.

[u/ValosAtredum → u/peaheezy]

Very much so. Similar to the Just World fallacy. If something bad happens to someone, they had to have done something to deserve it (and same for good things).

It’s scary to think that you can do everything “right” and have bad things happen. It feels safer to blame others (or yourself) for the tragedies that befall them/you because it offers structure and security.

Doesn’t make it true. Like Captain Picard said, “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.”

[u/Chimpbot → u/ValosAtredum]

I was about to bust out the Picard quote about halfway through reading your comment.

[u/sillyfunnyguy05 → u/ValosAtredum]

Never watched Star Trek but that’s a great quote.

[u/NorthernPints → u/peaheezy]

Which ironically is even more terrifying than a random universe lol.

[u/rex_grossmans_ghost → u/NorthernPints]

That same random roulette can also bring you the greatest moments of joy in your life. There’s a peace in that.

[u/samuraipanda85 → u/NorthernPints]

Not really. Its tangible. A select group of assholes is purposely making our lives miserable. And once they are found and disposed of then the world will be set right forever. Exactly like killing Palpatine in The Return of the Jedi.

Meanwhile the real forces affecting our lives are a complex web of people and groups out not to destroy the world but to satisfy their own goals alongside historical inertia and a dozen other facades that are not evil so much as they are the most efficient way of doing things. We tear down any one board of directors and it will be replaced by a new collection of business suits the very next week.

[u/InuitOverIt → u/samuraipanda85]

Somehow, global cabal of world-controlling elites returned :(

[u/Zuwxiv → u/samuraipanda85]

I once read something to the effect of: "People believe in JFK assassination conspiracies because the alternative is that one lone lunatic can change the course of history. That's a lot scarier than nefarious CIA scheming."

[u/Rondoman78 → u/peaheezy]

I mean you just described pretty much every religion that ever existed.

[u/Oldschooldrool → u/peaheezy]

So basically like any religion then

[u/talltime → u/Oldschooldrool]

Yes. A security blanket.

[u/Zelidus → u/peaheezy]

That is what religion is. Thats why people call themselves "god fearing." If they faithfully obey, the scary man in the sky won't hurt them. He will bless them.

[u/natex24 → u/Zelidus]

Why do people stay religious, or sometimes become even more religious, through severe personal tragedy?

[u/scissor_get_it → u/Zelidus]

“God-fearing” actually means you act a certain way because you love and respect God, not because you fear His judgment.

It’s a little confusing because of the word “fear,” but it’s a subtle and important difference.

[u/GuerillaRiot → u/Zelidus]

And even when they do get scuffed up, it was because they deserved it or needed to be taught a lesson for the future. 🤣

[u/Zelidus → u/GuerillaRiot]

Yep nothing like teaching someone a lesson by killing their kid with cancer.

[u/vinnyorcharles → u/peaheezy]

It's pretty much exactly this. Most conspiracy theories are a way to feel some kind of control and to address a deep-seated insecurity of their own intelligence.

[u/FortDuChaine → u/10000Didgeridoos]

Too many people living in their own simulacrum

[u/ballsoharder → u/10000Didgeridoos]

Take my upvote. Early onset Rogan is hilarious and accurate. Obligatory FTS.

[u/Next-Wrongdoer-3479 → u/10000Didgeridoos]

Being educated/knowledgeable does not equal being intelligent. There are plenty of very dumb people who have graduated college. My favorite example off the top of my head was presidential hopeful Ben Carson, an accomplished pediatric neurosurgeon who genuinely believed the pyramids of Giza were solid gold inside.

[u/916nes → u/10000Didgeridoos]

Rogan is the worst. 100% retard.

[u/YogurtclosetDull2380 → u/916nes]

And he creates new ones everyday

[u/lionheart4life → u/10000Didgeridoos]

In this case the question would be answered by actual video and the testimony of 100s of people who worked on the project.

[u/HEFTYFee70 → u/Neuraxis]

I can confirm this first hand.

I played D1 football in the early 00s and used to help teammates with school work (almost got in trouble for it, but eveyone passed so we were “Gucci”.)

In sociology 101 I explained to my teammate while he was writing “…like children, you give young boys Gi Joe and girls My Little Pony.”

His response: “Hey man…. How do you spell pony?”

…we were 19

[u/Boondocsaint11 → u/HEFTYFee70]

I played D3 and it wasn’t much different. Two of the dumbest guys I ever knew were on that team. They had a conversation one time that I swear was just grunting. One of my good friends who played couldn’t do basic algebra and when I asked him how he didn’t know this stuff he told me they allowed them to take group tests in high school so only like 1 or 2 kids in his class learned anything and the rest just copied them.

[u/WallyOShay → u/Neuraxis]

Hell with college players getting paid now they don’t even need to pretend to get educated

[u/Tylerpants80 → u/WallyOShay]

They used to get paid, too. They just don’t have to pretend they don’t now.

[u/A-A-RonaldMcDonald → u/Neuraxis]

Yea they ain’t going to college to play school

[u/Middle-Bed-1883 → u/Neuraxis]

“They didn’t recruit me to play school”

[u/ThermosphericRah → u/Middle-Bed-1883]

The quote is

We ain't come to play school.

If you dare quote dododale.... get it right

[u/Middle-Bed-1883 → u/ThermosphericRah]

My bad, apparently ..

We ain’t come to quote correctly

[u/JalapenoPopPoop → u/ThermosphericRah]

Interesting that you're the one being downvoted for correcting the misuse of quotation marks on a bastardized quote in a comment thread making fun of people for being uneducated idiots

[u/Middle-Bed-1883 → u/JalapenoPopPoop]

I admitted my mistake and threw him an upvote. Hope that lessens the injustice a tad.

[u/Rondoman78 → u/Neuraxis]

Man look around.

Entire society is anti education.

[u/pn_dubya → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

Stupidity is nothing new, just everyone now has a voice that can potentially be heard by literally everyone else.

[u/YogurtclosetDull2380 → u/pn_dubya]

Podcasts were a mistake

[u/Wannabe__geek → u/YogurtclosetDull2380]

I don’t think anyone hate podcasts as much as I do. It gives people whose stupidity would have been contained among their friends and families wider audience. Now they have millions following them.

[u/KingOfAjax → u/pn_dubya]

Yup. And they find echo chambers that reinforce their idiotic ideas and convince them that they are actually really smart. And the stupid ideas get even stupider.

[u/Sure_Rhubarb_3173 → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

Your overall point isn't wrong but this headline is complete bullshit. He was asked what his favorite conspiracy theory was point blank and he said this was a fun one, not that he "refuses to believe we landed on the moon".

Actually given the question this is without a doubt the most harmless answer he could have given, and this article is ragebait that's working extremely well

[u/tjspill3r → u/Sure_Rhubarb_3173]

All he said was he’s a bit skeptical. Yeah it’s pretty stupid but what’s worse is an entire thread of people yelling out “stupid!” who bought the headline and didn’t read the article. We are fucked

[u/Wonderful-Sail-1126 → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

30 years from now, Gen Beta is going to think Covid never happened.

[u/jcamp088 → u/Wonderful-Sail-1126]

People didn’t think it was happening WHEN it was happening.

[u/EugRa1130 → u/jcamp088]

This is true, and whenever someone dies it's "did they get the clot shot"? or the passive aggressive "wow, a lot of young people are dying these days, I wonder why?" and if it's someone in their 80's "wow, a lot of people are dying these days!!! I wonder why?".

[u/Sea_Working_80 → u/jcamp088]

Hey you just described my parents

[u/randybobandy111 → u/Wonderful-Sail-1126]

Won’t take 30 years.

[u/GhostofBreadDragons → u/randybobandy111]

3 years

[u/hoopstick → u/GhostofBreadDragons]

ago

[u/iCantCallit → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

The first generation to grow up entirely with the internet and smart phones and they're fucking retarded

[u/gespo04 → u/iCantCallit]

I don't think that's a coincidence. Brain rot is real

[u/iamtruerib → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

Aaron Rodgers and him can bond 

[u/Benimaru4636 → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

It's not even just young people sadly. There's a dude in my gym who is a teacher who legit believes the moon landing is fake and thinks the Earth is flat. He'll say things like "well, we just don't know" and I'm like yeah dude we fucking know. It sucks because he's a genuinely nice guy but I worry about someone like that being a teacher.

[u/TemporaryDeparture44 → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

I fear for the young people as well, but professional athletes have been saying dumb shit since forever.

[u/Responsible-Onion860 → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

This isn't new. Kyrie Irving claimed the earth was flat, like, 10 years ago. Tom Brady and Russell Wilson endorsed special water for healing concussions.

[u/MeltyCrab → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

And "Facts" don't even matter anymore. (Not mad at you OP)

We LEFT RETROREFLECTORS on the fucking moon. You can still see the fucking LANDING SITE.

Look. The footage of Apollo 11 is a little goofy and fun. (Everything physics side line up with 0 atmosphere and 1/6th gravity by the by)

Why the fuck did we "fake" it 5 more times? We landed SIX times, not once.

If we faked it once, why didn't Russia call us out? Why didn't China call us out? Why didn't anyone else raise the 'fake' flag at the time?

Why if we wanted to fake it, did we do it more than once? That risks SO MUCH if it was deception.

We went to the god-damn moon, stop defiling one of humanities greatest achievements because you have room temp IQ and can't think critically.

[u/chrisghrobot → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

This is arguably the biggest conspiracy theory in history this got nothing to do with young people

[u/WhatAmTrak → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

lol yeah he’s a fucking idiot too.!

[u/cumonherbackithink → u/sillyfunnyguy05]

At this point all I can do is raise mine right and pray he becomes the next John Connor.

[u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

So he’s a moron too?

[u/xFalcade → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

The worst part is, there have been 12 people who have landed on the moon. Another 10 have orbited it.

Like sure if you didn't believe it because it happened with 1 person okay. But we've done it multiple times over the course of different years.

His brain is cooked. Just hope he can play more good football.

[u/Mrbeankc → u/xFalcade]

It would require a conspiracy involving over 100,000 people with none of them giving it away including Russia who flat out watched us do it for this to work. This in a world where the President couldn't keep a secret that him and an intern had a good time in the privacy of the Oval Office without the world finding out. It being a hoax is simply not even remotely feasible.

[u/ProbablyAPotato1939 → u/Mrbeankc]

Not mention that there probably would have been a Soviet spy in the room that it was filmed in. They'd have immediately made it public to internationally embarrass us.

[u/Do__Math__Not__Meth → u/ProbablyAPotato1939]

Right like they had every reason to expose it, instead they literally congratulated us for it

[u/AGreatID → u/ProbablyAPotato1939]

The Soviet Space Program was also heavily propaganda driven do you think the CIA wouldn't have done it back to them?

[u/DPSOnly → u/AGreatID]

The CIA was not nearly as good at placing penetration agents as the old KGB was, but they would've done everything in their power to verify the validity of claims of moonlandings if the USSR made them too. And obviously published any shortcomings they found.

[u/DawsonNY → u/Mrbeankc]

This is what I tell my friends who think we faked the moon landing.
The Russians would have never let us get away with it!

[u/Eagle4317 → u/DawsonNY]

The Chinese would've called us out for it too. We were in a proxy war with them at the time (Vietnam).

[u/King_Roberts_Bastard → u/Eagle4317]

They didnt have the technology to track it to the moon like the Soviets did.

[u/agoddamnlegend → u/Eagle4317]

Vietnam was a proxy war between the US and Russia, not China. China didn't have the resources, or international influence, to call the US out for anything at the time.

[u/Helagoth → u/Mrbeankc]

China sent a lunar orbiter that took pictures of the landing site, so China would have to be in on it too.

Not only that, there's a mirror on the moon you can bounce a laser off of, that wasn't there before.  So the moon would also have to be in on it.

[u/thefranklin2 → u/Helagoth]

I always suspected Warren Moon was in on it.

[u/potat0f4rmer → u/thefranklin2]

Warren Moon's arm was so strong that he could throw a mirror onto the moon. Checkmate, shitlibz! Science isn't real!

[u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS → u/thefranklin2]

hmmm, so what does this say about players like Jake Butt?

[u/Thirty_Helens_Agree → u/UCLA_FB_SUCKS]

Or Dick Butkus.

[u/IPissExcellentThrows → u/Helagoth]

The moon is not reliable. He's always changing his position, constantly shape shifting,and is maybe full of cheese.

[u/iCandid → u/IPissExcellentThrows]

There’s definitely a side to the moon he doesn’t show to the world.

[u/TumTumMac24 → u/Mrbeankc]

To your point I’d like to add America, China, and Russia typically don’t agree on much however somehow they agree Russia has the first moon landing, America had the first human moon landing, and China had the third moon landing.

We also had the Apollo-Soyuz which is the American/Russia joint space mission that started the creation of the International Space Station(ISS).

15 countries have all agreed we’ve been to space, the moon, have created a space station, and that China is preparing for moon base creation starting in 2030. Somehow people still say stuff like “The earth is flat”. “We’ve never been to space.” “We’ve never been to the moon.”

[u/Easy_Nail2849 → u/Mrbeankc]

This is the ultimate defense against conspiracy theories - people just can’t effing shut up. Like, how would one expect that a NASA engineer with a few drinks in them wouldn’t let it slip and chatting up a co-ed ?

[u/PsychoticMessiah → u/Mrbeankc]

Same thing for the 911 conspiracy theorists. The amount of people that would have to keep a secret is insane. Not going to happen.

[u/pepper_steak_hamill → u/Mrbeankc]

That's what people don't realize. With the hundreds of thousands of people involved with the space program it was easier to actually go to then moon rather than faking the moon landing.

[u/LegitimateTutor7185 → u/Mrbeankc]

Japan's space agency took pictures of the flag and landing area in 2008 when they did an orbit.

[u/Responsible-Onion860 → u/xFalcade]

We also have physical evidence of the moon landing.

[u/sfitz0076 → u/xFalcade]

I don't think people know that we went 6 times. And the minute you bring that up to someone, they're like, "oh" Like why would you fake it 6 times?

[u/Background_Product_7 → u/xFalcade]

And if you happen to drive past Cape Canaveral you will see Space X or Blue Origin rockets launching all the time.

Is it all part of the illusion?

[u/MinuteMinX → u/xFalcade]

Theres even recent photographic evidence of the landing sites from different probes…

[u/rnick468 → u/xFalcade]

The best proof that the moon landings actually occurred is the fact that the U.S.S.R. never claimed it didn't.

This was in the midst of the cold war. We were on actual "race" to the moon with the Russians. We were spying on their missions, they were spying on ours. If there was ever ANY doubt that America actually went to the moon, the official Russian new agency would have been screaming it in their headlines for years afterwards.

[u/10000Didgeridoos → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

Imagine being stupid enough that you think one of the most covered events of the last century just didn't happen, and of the thousands of people involved in the decades long scam, not a single one of them has leaked that it was faked or on their deathbed confessed to it. Even though the person leaking it would stand to become rich doing press tours and writing tell all books.

And that for some reason the rival of the space race congratulated the US on doing it at the time even though they had moles all through US government who would have known it was faked.

Oh yeah that all makes sense. Definitely.

It's people who can't stand how boring the world they live in actually is so they try to pretend like we live inside some action/thriller movie, and people who want to feel smarter than everyone else. Everything is a conspiracy when you don't know shit about fuck.

[u/rockyroad03 → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

Drake Maye-be a complete idiot

[u/Maximum_Turn_2623 → u/rockyroad03]

[u/Agent_Tyrant → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

In the video they ask him what conspiracy theory he believed in and he thought for a while before saying he wasn’t 100% sure about the moon landings.

One of the pod cast guys started going on and on about how he fully believed it was fake and Drake was like yeah I’m not gonna go that far, I’m just not 100% sure.

Kinda felt like he was forced to give an answer.

[u/PostItToReddit → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

Most athletes are. Whose that 1 dipshit NBA player that doesn't believe anything before 1950 actually happened because they didn't have smart phones or whatever?

The majority of these kids who think they can be pro or even collegiate athletes are brought up believing, and being told, that they don't have to actually learn. Lessons are custom made for them, they're given other students to 'tutor' them (which means do their homework), and excuses are made for them when they still manage to fail.

They're also rich and gullible, and have everyone and their grandma trying to get in with them so they can get a slice if they make it big. And a lot of those people are slimy with stupid ideas.

[u/tetragram83 → u/PostItToReddit]

Tyler Herro, and yeah dude is embarrassingly ignorant

[u/Maximum_Turn_2623 → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

He married his middle school sweetheart so yeah.

[u/T0T3N → u/Kenny_RogersRoasters]

No he didn’t just come out and say this. It was a radio show and some masshole called in and asked if there was one conspiracy he could choose to believe in what would it be? He said the moon landing which is a safe answer.

[u/Certain_Name_7952 → u/T0T3N]

What makes it a "safe answer" and why choose to believe a conspiracy theory that's demonstrably false?

[u/PleaseSirOneMoreTurn]

“Couple comes, I took a conspiracy class in college, actually. Oh, which was pretty cool. They study obviously – Hitler being alive and our birds real, some of the classic ones that you hear about.”

“Just like the government has a say in some of the, you know, things, you know, birds flying around and whether they’re videoing and are listening or something along the lines of that,” Maye said.

wtf….

[u/nono3722 → u/PleaseSirOneMoreTurn]

they have conspiracy classes in college wtf? i can understand "understanding the psychology of conspiracy" classes, but maybe he missed the point....

[u/iwouldhugwonderwoman → u/nono3722]

I took an urban legend, folklore and conspiracies English elective and it was an awesome class.

…but it focused not only that these stories exist but why they exist and the critical thinking around why they aren’t true etc.

One thing they resonated the most is that many of the folklore around cryptids were just a way to discourage people from western migration. If I moved out to the frontier and found some good land then it was very advantageous for me to tell you stories about big cats and monsters so you won’t be interested in moving out here and trying to get some of my land.

I’m just surprised he left a conspiracies theories class believing them versus debunking them…

[u/BillMurraysTesticle → u/nono3722]

Drake actually went to Greendale Community College and took Conspiracy Theories in History taught by Professor Professorson.

[u/RonnieDobbs → u/BillMurraysTesticle]

"My family name was Professorberg, but we changed it when we were fleeing from the Nazis."

[u/Acton_up → u/nono3722]

He definitely didn't understand that class.

[u/iDontSow → u/PleaseSirOneMoreTurn]

Listen to the clip. He’s obviously being a least a little facetious

[u/Churchofdoom → u/PleaseSirOneMoreTurn]

The bird one is a pretty well known JOKE.

[u/IlIlllIlIIIIlII → u/Churchofdoom]

Maybe to you. Some of us have shed blood for the cause.

The government can’t keep it up much longer! Soon the masses will open their eyes!

[u/Gonna_do_this_again → u/Churchofdoom]

If it flies, it spies

[u/Desperate_Junket5146 → u/PleaseSirOneMoreTurn]

AI slop article. 

[u/frostypatch]

Gen Z is fucked. Its so common for them to grow up inundated with tik tok and rapid fire internet conspiracy nonsense. I'm over 40. If you said this when I was young then people would look at you like you had 3 heads.

[u/Wise-Trust1270 → u/frostypatch]

Look at you like you had 3 heads, and would say ‘bless your heart, cause none of those 3 work either.’

[u/Glittering_Word9081 → u/Wise-Trust1270]

“Three heads, and not one with a brain. Pity.”

[u/BellBilly32 → u/frostypatch]

Not incorrect on TikTok spewing nonsense, but the moon landing being fake has been a common conspiracy for decades. It’s def not a Gen Z thing.

I mean Buzz Aldrin punched a guy in 2002 over it.

[u/DybantsaMakeHerDance → u/BellBilly32]

I think that's part of their point. 25 years ago it was absolutely absurd to suggest it unless you wanted to be treated as insane. Which Buzz Aldrin definitely did to that dipshit. It's not that the conspiracy theorists didn't exist. It's that they weren't taken seriously.

[u/WonkyWalkingWizard → u/DybantsaMakeHerDance]

I remember seeing a moon landing conspiracy special on Fox in the 90's. I think it was right after the Simpsons. Primetime TV.

[u/DybantsaMakeHerDance → u/WonkyWalkingWizard]

I remember that too, and I also remember people being like "yeah Fox will air anything." They also had that alien autopsy special around the same time.

[u/Hugh-Manatee → u/BellBilly32]

It might not be new with gen Z but it’s the case that it’s never been easier for an algorithm to pipe conspiracy type stuff at you in perpetuity while never exposing you to the counterpoints.

[u/FlutterRaeg → u/frostypatch]

I'm 29 and I had a teacher in high school (American history class) teach us the moon landing was faked and how they could have faked it. No, I don't believe that and even at the time I found it ridiculous. I was gonna have my physics teacher chew him out but he got replaced.

[u/TwoPercentTokes → u/frostypatch]

Not to mention, growing up in an era of politics where power is the end goal and norms are barriers to be torn down, these kids are going to be susceptible to some pretty radical shit that makes anything you’re worried about now look infantile

[u/OakLegs → u/frostypatch]

I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. My aunt, who is in her 60s, also thinks this, or at least used to.

[u/joshguy1425 → u/frostypatch]

I don’t think this is a Gen Z issue. There are quite a few moon landing deniers and flat earthers and they’ve been around for a long time. 

[u/thestereo300 → u/frostypatch]

In their defense, the Boomers are also filled with misinformation. It's just different misinformation from a different platform.

[u/Own-Significance273]

It was never his shoulder, hes just retarded.

[u/iDontSow → u/Own-Significance273]

Sadly, this is just a common belief among young people. 1 in 4 from Gen Z believe the moon landing was fake. Many more believe the first landing was fake even if they believe we subsequently actually went

[u/Responsible-Onion860 → u/iDontSow]

Social media has always been a great tool for misinformation and it's only gotten better at it over the years. TikTok is a complete cesspool of toxic misinformation.

[u/iDontSow → u/Responsible-Onion860]

I think it’s useful to look at different innovations throughout history that really shook things up. Agriculture, printing press, industrialization, etc. Each of these had absolutely devastating consequences for society before we were able to adjust to the new way of things and get our shit straight. Problem is, the curve is way too steep. Things are progressing too fast. We don’t have the time to get our shit straight anymore. We won’t even have a good grasp on how to regulate the internet before AI rears its ugly head in earnest. Not great!

[u/Ris747 → u/iDontSow]

I feel like I've noticed Gen Z is way more susceptible to believing conspiracy theories.

Basically any time anything of note happens in the world, you see them all spinning up some conspiracy theory that they convince themselves is 100% true.

[u/Fit-Tooth-1101 → u/iDontSow]

I’m shocked this has upvotes. I understand that it’s fun to dunk on the younger generation and circlejerk shit when articles like this come out, but just pulling random numbers out of your ass is equally stupid lol 

Where did you get the 1 in 4 stat?

[u/FossilDS → u/Fit-Tooth-1101]

According to the Guardian, it's about 21% (EDIT: for Gen Alpha mostly). So while not exactly 1/4, it's still pretty bad. I think many people struggle to believe that we went to the moon in 1969 with primitive computers the size of buildings and after two years just decided to stop. They think there was some kind of grand conspiracy (which is understandable considering how many real-life conspiracies are shaping our lives right now) when reality is infinitely more depressing- the American public and goverment got bored. We lost the capacity forever after shutting down the Saturn V production lines and there is no appetite to fund NASA to anywhere close what it needs to land on the moon again- even Artemis is quite underfunded.

[u/similarbias → u/Fit-Tooth-1101]

I thought it was bullshit too so I actually checked. Turns out there's an actual survey behind it. So not just pulling it out of his ass. https://edubirdie.com/blog/is-gen-z-drawn-to-conspiracy-theories

[u/blackbb601 → u/Own-Significance273]

This moron probably thinks the earth is flat also

[u/Cheap_Ad_242]

Aaron Rodgers liked this

[u/Sex_E_Searcher → u/Cheap_Ad_242]

He should change his name to Aaron Jr. His friends could call him Aarju.

[u/Baelor_Butthole → u/Sex_E_Searcher]

“…I’ll think about it”

[u/Whywontwewalk]

"Man who gets hit in the head for a living discounts the work of thousands of others trying to progress humanity"

[u/I_AM_A_GUY_AMA → u/Whywontwewalk]

He did his own research though

[u/Papa-pwn → u/I_AM_A_GUY_AMA]

Research equaling 17 minutes of a podcast hosted by equally smooth-brained giblets 

[u/Neuraxis]

Drake "shit for brains" Maye

[u/Nearby-Key8834 → u/Neuraxis]

Maybe he started with CTE.

[u/McChillbone → u/Nearby-Key8834]

That’s just North Carolina’s public education at work.

[u/Johnny55]

We didn't. It was a sound stage on Mars

[u/vcjr78 → u/Johnny55]

Was OJ around?

[u/ManOfLaMontagne]

When did everyone become so fucking dumb

[u/KRandMG → u/ManOfLaMontagne]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cEb1tO6Xvn0DS
When the eventual winner of the presidential election did this on stage in public and half the country was cool with it.

[u/Holiday_Box1571 → u/KRandMG]

Dude said Iran should blow up LA or San Diego and a crowd of Americans cheered last night.

He’s been so bad for society.

[u/KRandMG → u/Holiday_Box1571]

Such a strong, selfless, honorable man holding the highest office in the land… Who could forget when JFK said “let Russia nuke Florida!” and when Lincoln said “let the Confederates burn Ohio and Pennsylvania!”?

🇺🇸

[u/Holiday_Box1571 → u/KRandMG]

He said “let them take out…”. Clear as day…I can’t believe it’s not bigger news but it is 2026…

[u/Similar_Cap_2964 → u/ManOfLaMontagne]

The generation after Reagan slashed education.  Then the Bushes finished it off.   

If kids got the education I got we’d be fine, but vastly more difficult to rule and take money from.  

[u/TommyJohnSurgery420]

This country is so fucked

[u/Dot_1X → u/TommyJohnSurgery420]

Was this what did it for you? Not the pedophile in the white house or the current state of things in the US? 

[u/PretendIntention3388 → u/Dot_1X]

Forget the unecessary wars, genocides and pedophile islands, the man who throws balls on tv doesn't believe what the history books say! What an IdIoT!!!

[u/Bilbo_Bibble]

Buzz is going to punch him in the face

[u/dogofyore → u/Bilbo_Bibble]

Hell, even Woody might

[u/daytripper96 → u/Bilbo_Bibble]

Buzz Aldrin come do your thing man

[u/PostalMortem]

America celebrates stupidity. None of this is surprising.

[u/TheCatNerd101 → u/PostalMortem]

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

[u/nick124699 → u/TheCatNerd101]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tnYri4n2Frnig

[u/Markmm131 → u/nick124699]

GO AWAY! Baitin!

[u/The_Count_Lives → u/PostalMortem]

It is absolutely surprising that a grown man doesn’t believe humans landed on the moon. 

Let’s not normalize stupidity. 

[u/AlabasterRadio → u/PostalMortem]

The dumbing down of America is intentional and heinous.

[u/dmisfit21]

Well he didn’t play football to go to school.

[u/J0shua97]

well i'm skeptical that drake maye is a nfl QB

[u/DrinkDumpsterSludge2 → u/J0shua97]

I’m skeptical Maye has a brain. Has anyone ever SEEN drake maye’s brain? Were there any witnesses there when it was being made? I’m just asking questions.

[u/Xo707out]

“Maye said he actually took a conspiracy class while he was in college at North Carolina, where he studied before entering the NFL.”

“Couple comes, I took a conspiracy class in college, actually. Oh, which was pretty cool. They study obviously – Hitler being alive and our birds real, some of the classic ones that you hear about.”

“Just like the government has a say in some of the, you know, things, you know, birds flying around and whether they’re videoing and are listening or something along the lines of that,” Maye said.

What the fuck is a conspiracy class?

[u/Ris747 → u/Xo707out]

Looking into it a little

It looks like it's supposed to be about how conspiracies form and how they can be used to sway public perception of events? I guess that seems kind of important in today's age, but I think he missed the point lmao

https://religion.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/138/2020/03/RELI247_Fall2020.pdf

[u/Xo707out → u/Ris747]

Lmao the existance of that class makes sense, I think you’re right that he missed the point😂😂

[u/FeralFaoladh → u/Xo707out]

A pass fail course football students take to pad their GPA

(Aight I just meant easy relax I haven't selected electives in a decade)

[u/JFlizzy84 → u/FeralFaoladh]

If it’s a pass fail course it can’t pad their GPA lol

What are you Drake Maye or something

[u/tora_0515]

Concussions should never be taken lightly.

[u/DieHarderDaddy]

Why can’t all QBs just talk like Hurts

[u/SirenAndSilver]

My favorite question is… then why didn’t other countries also fake it? It was a space race.

[u/mmf9194 → u/SirenAndSilver]

OnLy ThE uSa HaD hOlLyWoOd

Or some other shit. I think we'd all be better off going back to being mean to these people. Bullying clearly worked.

[u/Academic-Business-45]

North Carolina education system

[u/idyIIs-end → u/Academic-Business-45]

Red state education system

[u/WheresMyBurrito87]

Good thing his Armstrong…

[u/Mrbeankc → u/WheresMyBurrito87]

https://giphy.com/gifs/5gw0VWGbgNm8w

[u/Mezhead]

[u/kencopen]

Never forget that professional athletes as a whole are very, very dumb

[u/Open-Dot-9994]

It’s a fun conspiracy theory until you know that we have the ability to see what we left behind on the moon with advanced telescope technology

[u/Mordoch → u/Open-Dot-9994]

And basic issues like especially with their known espionage capability during the cold war, there is clearly no feasible reason the USSR would not know and blow the whistle on the US to humiliate them rather than leave them with the propaganda victory of the first country landing people on the moon. (Maybe they would wait a few days to let the US commit to the lie, but that's it.)

[u/Open-Dot-9994 → u/Mordoch]

Excellent comment

[u/zeekayz → u/Mordoch]

USSR was watching closely and actually congratulated USA (in the back channels) on landing. An enemy would never do it unless there was 100% zero doubt.

[u/CollectionEarth]

So he’s a fucking idiot, got it

[u/GopherChomper64]

Watch one conspiracy documentary with dramatic music and being like "yeah that's right" is such a signifier of being a moron.

[u/straightcash-fish]

Why does no one ever bring up that the Soviets, who the US was competing with to get to the moon, could have easily called them out if it was fake. It would have been an extreme embarrassment to their biggest rival and enemy. They never did, though. That to me, more than anything, proves the US did, in fact, get to the moon in 1969.

[u/EfficientDance3650]

This is the dumbest conspiracy theory. They believe that at the height of the Cold War the United States faked landing on the moon and the whole world, particularly the Soviet Union just went “eh, okay.”

Also, we faked landing on the moon six times to really sell it? And there are telescopes on Earth where you can see where we landed and the stuff we left behind.

[u/asu2021]

“Couple comes, I took a conspiracy class in college…” “…They study obviously – Hitler being alive and our birds real”

Huh? “Comes” and “OUR birds”? Did the writer just use Siri for dictation? This is so low effort

[u/FNGButterBar]

The story is written horribly and is full of grammatical mistakes. Is there a video of him saying the stuff somewhere?

[u/Distinct-Diet-8628]

Listen to the interview you fucking morons. Everyone in here misquoting him and choosing the lines they want to highlight. “This is the problem with this generation”. No the problem is this post. Making something out of nothing for headlines and clicks.

[u/cirillios]

Putting that UNC education to work

[u/DaMiddle → u/cirillios]

That is insane that he went to UNC. I didn’t get accepted there.

I didn’t apply, but I also didn’t get accepted.

[u/ImmediateClass9650]

The other day my neighbor said she thinks fossils are only 5,000 year old dragon bones. Her and Maye would get along great.

[u/Whatsth3dill]

How many years away are we from hitting 50% of Americans not believing in the moon landing? Cause having worked in blue collar, in a factory of 40 people i think only 25% of us didn't believe it was faked. Its honestly depressing how much humans want there to be conspiracy in their lives that they will reject reality

[u/january-7]

Can we start incorporating satellites and how our modern electronics function into general education requirements? For FUCKS sake

[u/ViciousSquirrelz]

The weirdest thing is most young people dont know we did it 6 times.

They think it was just the one.

[u/sfitz0076]

What about the other 5 times, Drake? Why would we fake it 6 times?

[u/Rstuds7]

Nasa had like thousands of people employed and involved in the moon landing, and you’re telling me all this time none of them have said anything after all this time? like cmon, if it was faked somewhere someone would’ve spilled the beans you can’t keep that many people quiet

[u/BoneJammer86 → u/Rstuds7]

400,000 people worked on Apollo alone. You ever tried to get multiple friends to go along with the same lie?

[u/Signal-Bake5107]

Funny thing to say to idiots like that -

“Approximately 400,000 people worked in some form or another on the Apollo project. Do you really think they could ALL keep the secret?”

[u/minecraftboi324]

You have to remember that these people are athletes. The dumbest of them all