Comment on Flat earthers

grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Clearly, the moon is f ake and gay”

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  • khanh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    obligatory “gay” btw

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey, I wrote my PhD on Gay Moon Theory.

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• Phantom_Feline17@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “The Moon was created by Islamo-Communists to make Hot Blooded Americans go to sleep!!”

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The moon is a sticker on the sky which is a big glass dome with holes in it. Or something like that, honestly they’re not really very consistent.

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• AEsheron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So, they aren’t exactly a monolith, different folks have different ideas. But generally speaking, they beleive all celestial bodies are basically spinning above us. I know they consider the sun to be actually really small and shockingly close to the surface. Generally the idea is the antarctic is the rim of the disk, with a giant ice wall that keeps the oceans in. Gravity is an illusion caused by the Earth constantly accelerating upwards.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I gather from these types of conspiracy theories is a kind of logic like “what if reality is exactly as simple as it seems prima facie,” and then from that they make all kinds of pseudo-empirical conjectures based on a anecdotal reasoning.

    There’s nothing wrong with going out into the weeds with your thinking and doubting everything, for a bit (as a treat). But they seem to fail to realise when their hypotheses are actually far clunkier than the established science, so they just stay out there on the fringes of reason getting wilder and more unhinged.

    PS and probably there’s some racism or antisemitism driving the whole thing, even if they don’t see it.

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• CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do they explain seasons, solar eclipses, lunar eclipses, lunar phases, tides, polar nights, polar days, etc?

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  • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    When you are stupid about one thing on purpose, you can be stupid about everything.

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