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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t know if this is disingenuous “reasoning” or, an honest position.
Ever since I came to understand that Flat Earthers weren’t just trolls, like the way Birds Aren’t Real folks ARE trolls, I’ve had trouble sussing out what’s real and what’s just bullshit “reasoning” to support bullshit ideals. I get now that I was just naive as to how incredibly stupid and evil people can be.
like the way Birds Aren’t Real folks ARE trolls
That was more a riff on the decades-long fear of mass surveillance. There’s a degree of conspiracy theory on top of the conspiracy theory, in which a few niche corners of the internet assert the “Birds Aren’t Real” guy was promoted as a means of deflecting attention from the Snowden Leaks and other surveillance whistleblowers.
I know, it’s beyond frustrating! I consider myself not smart at all, yet people actually believe the earth is flat? Like, I mean, like… I don’t know, it’s just, it’s like they’re spitting in the face of humanity-stupid, it’s not even fun. It’s just beyond stupid.
It’s not unreasonable, if you’re so fed up with being lied to that you only believe what you see with your own two eyes.
And that you see when you look at the horizon is usually flat earth.
My issue with flat earthers is that they’re inconsistent with the whole “I believe what I see with my own two eyes” thing and hold other beliefs completely on faith alone with the same fervor.
But they don’t use their eyes. If they used their eyes they would know that Earth is roughly spherical. Just like people have known for thousands of years
Well not all of us have the privilege of travelling ten whole miles and then remembering to look back, eh!
Nah, there are many tests the poorest of homeless could do in modern times that prove the Earth is a sphere. The people that honestly believe it are either stupid to the point of being a detriment to society, or dishonest contrarians that are so shit that they’re … a detriment to society.
Humanity hasn’t been subject to natural selection for so long that completely brainless morons do exist in droves, and it’s frankly terrifying. Humanity is doomed, and it’s because far too many “good” people do not understand the natural forces that drove us to try and control our environment.
I hear you, and agree. But, as you point out, their inconsistency do tend to make me believe that they are beyond stupid, or just very, very bad people. Don’t know what I prefer. If stupid isn’t fixable (it is if the stupid person(s) acknowledge their lack of knowledge, but only a good person(s) seem to be able to come to such conclusion), then I don’t know.
Master trolls are indistinguishable from stupid and/or evil people.
Bullshit. I refuse to believe flat earthers actually exist. I’m convinced flat earthed groups are just idiots laughing at how stupid the rest are for actually believing it
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
FYI: Flat Earthers started oug just like the Bird’s Aren’t Real people.
“Any group that gets its rocks off pretending to be stupid, eventually will be filled with actual stupid people who think they are in good company.”
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Is that Kolanaki’s Law, then?