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[โ€“] [email protected] 221 points 3 months ago (4 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think a significant portion of them are taking the piss out of the true believers.

Like out of 100 of them, there are 10 that actually believe, and 90 that are just fucking with them.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For most of them nothing is real, neither the stars nor the planets, and any mention of those things before modern days was planted by the shadow government or something. Some even think the moon is fake too and the sun is some kind of big light bulb in the sky or whatever.

More than believers, they are deniers, of everything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 138 points 3 months ago (8 children)

The sole purpose of being a flat earther is to be a very difficult person to deal with, so the content of their little belief system is irrelevant.

They're the sovereign citizens of earth science.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My interactions with them point to them not believing those things are real at all, or are not planets, etc.

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