• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    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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      Maybe none of them are true believers and they’re all just fucking with us.

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        That’s my stance. Best part is, they can never prove to me that they actually believe, I can just outright deny the same way they do about everything.

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    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.

  • NONE@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Etterra@lemmy.world
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      My favorites are The ones who think that the Earth is kind has kind of a rim around the edge and the moon rolls across that like a ball lol

      But I’ve seen plenty of them that are perfectly fine believing that all of the other planets are spheres.

      It doesn’t really matter, I always just tell them to lower a GoPro over the edge and let us know what they find down there. I mean if there’s an edge there’s got to be something under it right? Well they better get going, that award-winning documentary isn’t going to make itself.

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        But I’ve seen plenty of them that are perfectly fine believing that all of the other planets are spheres.

        That’s fascinating. Why do they think Earth is Not Like The Other Planets?

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    I’m definitely not a Flat Earther, but I watched a documentary about them and a lot of them seem to think the Earth is flat and the sky is like a glass dome, and the other stars and planets are presumably just projected onto the dome somehow? Kind of like this: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/flat-earth-1.jpg

    As for what’s beyond the dome or why nobody’s ever encountered the edge of it, I honestly couldn’t tell you lol.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I used to work with a flat earther and this is the description he gave. He was raised Christian and attended a Christian college, so I guess he was never taught much science.

  • CptInsane0@lemmy.world
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    My interactions with them point to them not believing those things are real at all, or are not planets, etc.

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    If you’re trying to apply reason to the theory, I think you’re misunderstanding the theory.

    When you dig to the roots of flat earth, it’s a “don’t trust the secret globalist government feeding you lies” kind of thing (Aka a dog whistle for antisemitism)

    • Iapar@feddit.org
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      Pff Jews aren’t even real. The government invented them to control the population.

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        “all antisemitic conspiracy theories are deliberately introduced cognitohazards from the illuminati to control the populace” is the best conspiracy theory regarding jewish folk i’ve ever seen.

  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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    Flat earthers are just nutjobs that don’t even agree with each other. There us no point to investigate them.

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    The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.

    • Nurgus@lemmy.world
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      I think you’ll find that flat earthers from all around the globe are in total agreement.

  • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
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    The flat earth conspiracy is just made to make money of dumb people. There is nothing more to it and what ever they believe doesn’t matter.

    • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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      Where’s the money to be made? Or are they just easily identifiable targets for sale of essential oils, healing crystals and chiropractor gift cards?

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        Yeah they pay for these conventions, flat earth merch, flat earth messuring tools, maps and a bunch of other crap.

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    Aren’t all of those just fake images the government displays on the dome LCD covering the world inside ice walls? If they were real they would have dropped out of the sky already.