• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    There’s a lot that actually believe the earth is flat. A disturbing amount of people have seriously tried to convince me of it.

    And who are these people? And who are you? When did this happen?

    I still believe that flat earthers are a group of trolls being paid by some corporation or something to just clutter up online spaces with as much bullshit as possible to make people talking about real conspiracies that are actually happening look like lunatics.

    “What? you think there weren’t any WMDs in Iraq? Do you think the earth is flat too?”

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      3 months ago

      So you’re implying a conspiracy theory about a conspiracy theory.

      First person I remember trying to convince me was about a decade ago, and there’s been plenty of others since then. All of them conservative and believing in a mix of other popular conspiracies from 5g control, to bigfoot, to reptilians controlling the planet. These are physical people in my life that not only believe, but passionately defend their theories. I really don’t think they’re getting paid by a corporation to tell me about the flat earth.

      It’s weird that they all lean right though.