I work with a guy who is convinced the earth is flat and space is fake and all the governments know it and that’s why planes aren’t allowed to ever fly over Antarctica or something.
But even that guy jumped off the trump train.
Comment on Good for him.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am entirely convinced the flat earth movement consists of 90% pranksters who are doing it for shits and giggles and 10% bona fide contrarian retards who falsely believe they’re in good company.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
nullspace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But even that guy jumped off the trump train.
top kek
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I worked with someone who seriously claimed that covid was produced by 5G towers, and also was a con by the government so they could inject nanobots into our blood via vaccines. He was never able to see the contradiction.
He also relieved that if you speed in a rental car for some reason the police cannot pull you over. Boy was he wrong.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I’m not sure I see the contradiction myself. It sounds like the theory is the towers somehow transmit the virus which creates the need and pretext for the vaccine that allows the secret nanobot injection right?
Is it contradictory because the capacity to wirelessly transmit a biological virus through these 5g towers would mean they wouldn’t need to physically inject these nanobot things because they should be able to just transmit them the same way? Because if so, I can see what you mean but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily follow, like maybe for whatever reason viruses are different to nanobots and can somehow be transmitted through radio technology but nanobots can’t. Or also they might think, as so many conspiracy theorists do, that COVID is a “hoax” so that opens up all kinds of creative interpretations, maybe their 5g towers merely produce the disease known as COVID and there is no actual virus known as SARS-COV-2 and that’s the “hoax” part. That theory wouldn’t require virus transmission over radiowaves just radiowaves being “bad” for reasons that could be made up later.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I lol’d. We all have a coworker like that. Hell, he’s my supervisor.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i think you have the percentages wrong but the groups right. more like 1:3 pranksters:dipshits
also, would you mind using a different word than retard? i don’t particularly like being grouped with flat earthers.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe started by pranksters then grifters realizes that can sell fake books and fake stuff like some fake tool that pretends to prove some false assumption
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
so you start with that fuzzy equality where you end up at 1=0 due to bad math. then you just start multiplying if by shit and it looks legitimate!
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait until you meet some
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe? The Netflix doc mad a pretty convincing argument that they are sad, undereducated, and unaccomplished losers who are desperate to feel superior to something and to have something approximating real friends.
I think it started as stupid shit and people with the most desperate need latched on because they had nothing else in there entire lives.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it’s more like 10% grifters, 90% dupes.
peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s the grift angle? People make money believing that shit?
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There’s a small industry of flat earth influencers.
peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What the hell is there to make money off of though? In today’s Flat Earth news: It’s not confirmation bias, Earth is still flat and nobody will believe you if you try to tell them and you’ll get kicked out of orgies for revealing the truth. Do actual real people really compulsively watch this like their favorite live streamer or HOW does this shit even exist?