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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait until you meet some

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I think it’s more like 10% grifters, 90% dupes.

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  • peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s the grift angle? People make money believing that shit?

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a small industry of flat earth influencers.

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      • peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But even that guy jumped off the trump train.

    top kek

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I lol’d. We all have a coworker like that. Hell, he’s my supervisor.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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!

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