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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I love that he claims that "math can't be trusted" clearly because he can't understand it but it disproves his world views so therefore it must be lying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the time I drove across Lake Pontchartrain and watched New Orleans sink into its depths in the rear-view mirror.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Don't worry, I'm sure there's some stupid explanation for that, like your car's windshield distorts the image or jewish space lasers interfere with the protons before they hit your retina.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reading... reading ... reading ... reading ... OK there it is: "the holocaust didn't happen".

Why are they always antisemites/racists/neo nazis on top of some weird but quite harmless theory?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Why are they always antisemites/racists/neo nazis on top of some weird but quite harmless theory?

I have put a lot of thinking into it and I think it works like this:

Flat Earth is such an absolutely ridiculous theory that the only possible people that would fall victim to it are either the ones with:

"conspiratorial/contrarian thinking SO high that it overrides all reason" OR "absolutely NO reasoning ability at all"

So in this case, they either deliberately eat all this stuff up to say "shove it" to the man OR they are swindled by any kind of convenient belief because they lack the tooling to understand why it's incorrect.

The reason it overlaps with Nazism because if you are white, it's a very comforting lie to believe you are part of the Master Race, and again, you're either being a contrarian OR you use your lack of reasoning skills to place yourself as one of the proud Master Race members.

One of the reasons I feel uncomfortable with the flat earthers is their lack of reasoning makes them EXTREMELY susceptible to all manner of scammer and grifters. I deliberately avoid this type of people as this type of behavior makes them very "unlucky" as they are always falling for one scam other another, like joining a cult, being scammed by MLM, getting scammed by someone over the phone, etc.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (4 children)

What was that flat earth documentary that ended on the laser experiment not working called again?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I believe Beyond the Curve

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But this guy on 4chan said it would work, so I dunno how valid that actual evidence is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Well, my uncle works at Nintendo and he said the same thing. My friend's girlfriend in Canada also had a similar experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

True, true :3

It must've been those glober NASA lizards out to make the flat earth truthers look bad

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago