Submitted 2 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Same here. I learned about Flat Earthers, and assumed they were sarcastic, like Birds aren’t Real. Took me two years of occasionally coming across their shit to realize they were serious. I was flabbergasted.
That’s when I started to understand how stupid people can be. They can be all the stupid, and in unsettling numbers.
May i introduce you to antivaxxers
and/or sovereign citizens (this venn diagram has a lot of overlap)
Yea yea birds aren’t real we all know that. But have you ever gotten really close to a bird? Like close enough to tell if it has dimension? NO. OBVIOUSLY BIRDS ARE FLAT!
I think birds aren’t real is starting to be taken seriously, too.
More like the techbros took inspiration…
I think the birds aren’t real people have it all wrong.
Given the level of technology needed to make anything fly, how are we supposed to believe in the original organic “birds” to begin with?
Clearly it’s just a distraction from the real harsh truth.
Obligatory George Carlin
There’s a subreddit called TrumpZone or something like that that I joined because of all the over the top bootlicking memes. It took a few days before I realized that the memes weren’t being posted ironically and the members really were batshit crazy.
have you tried being batshit crazy though?
it’s a lot of fun, as you may have briefly noticed. a lot more fun than being normie
Didn’t r/TheDonald start out ironic and then slowly mutate into being unironic.
Same for r/MURICA. Sad case, it used to be really funny.
Female… shitposter?
Fake and gay
I wonder how flat earthers explain it’s winter here in S. America and summer in Europe, at the same time.
We are but a spinning plate in the great cosmic microwave oven of the universe
… explain?
Piss off with you pro-establishment crap.
I think it was either a Miniminuteman or a Folding Ideas video that showed what some flatties proposed: the Sun moves in a wacky repeating spiral pattern above the surface. It’s closer to the Arctic during summer and to the Antarctic during winter. Obviously that doesn’t conform to any physical laws, observed phenomena, or reasonable ideas that a person of ordinary intelligence might come up with… but that simply reinforces their belief that everything else is a lie and they figured out the real truth.
I imagine it is like moving a lamp over a table. Closer parts have summer and further away parts have winter.
Which is pretty funny because in the northern hemisphere during January, the sun is closest to us. It’s our axial tilt that drives the winter, being tilted further away in winter.
But God forbid they learn some actual fucking science 😂
earth moves around the sun. moving a table over a lamp.
Their worldview is heavily built around Christian magic nonsense: The sky is a dome (firmament). Gravity doesn’t exists, it’s just buoyancy. They probably assume wind currents change and blow the cold off the icewall surrounding the world edge…
The earth is flat; it’s just space that’s curved.
They think earth is flat and space is 3d
A lot of groups take advantage of shitposters in this way. Oh woe is me.
This is why i dont like or support shit posting. FAR TOO MANY people simply can not understand.
They said, while participating in a community about 4chan posts.
This is why in many native cultures they stay away from being sarcastic. They’ve learned that it can be harmful to a society and they have the empathy to not want to make certain people who are out of the loop feel dumb
Wdym by native cultures? I’m from a native culture that is known for our sarcasm in humour, not sure if you mean something else by that.
they mean they make up random shit on the internet because it makes them feel superior to whitey. likely being whitey themselves.
Flat-earth shitposters and actual flat-earthers may have their differences, but at least they can all agree that Apollo 11 was staged
Of course it was staged. That’s how rockets work.
…did the friend know too?
Eyefish lense?
Anon surely meant fisheye lens
Took me longer than I care to admit to figure that out. Heh.
Eyefish lence.
If you don’t spell it right the government can talk you.
After reading the comments I’m glad I’m not alone
arin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Me in 2015 reddit in the_Donald Subreddit thought they were shitposting sarcasm but no. It was a coordinated Russian intelligence campaign to fuck with retarded voters
jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
r/the_donald used to be hilarious. Right up until it became serious.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 weeks ago
It started that way. Then a large contingent of shit stains showed up not realizing it was a joke and agreed with everything.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
There was a moderator coup. Reddit admins deliberately flipped it and immediately started banning anyone going “wait…you’re serious?”
oce@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Me in 2023 learning about tankies through Lemmy.
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago