Spent all morning in lieu of TikTok ban laughing my ass off at these kooky flat-earth types like this bro. Can’t believe how prevalent this stuff is. Are these people serious? Apparently yes. I bumped into a lady the other day who was clearly influenced by it, jabbering about how space and even Australia is fake, which would be news to my Australian neighbors and brother who lived there. Not one for conspiracy theories, but this has to be conscious effort by China to turn Americans into child-like idiots. It’s fascinating how they twist “critical-thinking” and “doing their own research” into passionate support for absurd, quixotic (literal) world view. Truly frightening because if you believe the earth is a snow globe formerly populated by giant men, you’ll believe just about anything the ChiComs shovel your way. I’m sure there at least a couple firmament Freepers who will point out that I’m just an agent of Satanic NASA. These folks are long gone.
1 posted on
04/25/2024 10:41:15 AM PDT by
Callahan
To: Callahan
I don’t do ‘TikTok’
But I didn’t realize that NASA had been around for centuries...
2 posted on
04/25/2024 10:44:32 AM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Callahan
I knew a flat earther, he was ex Air Force and a bright fellow who grew pot, nothing could shake his belief.
3 posted on
04/25/2024 10:44:55 AM PDT by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: Callahan
4 posted on
04/25/2024 10:53:15 AM PDT by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Callahan
I have a friend who went to prison, was there for several years, and came out a flat-earther. He’s all the time posting about it on Facebook. He knows I’m a lifelong astronomy nut (with an interest in science in general), he hasn’t tried convincing me personally. I just leave him alone, and pray that he’ll be convinced about the sphere we live upon. Maybe someday he’ll come to his senses. In the meantime I’m just mystified that anyone could be a flat earther in this day and age.
5 posted on
04/25/2024 10:56:06 AM PDT by
Ciaphas Cain
(America needs deliberalization like Germany needed denazification.)
To: Callahan
It’s like humanity is devolving to medieval times thanks nitwits in their social media echo chambers. My buddy knows a dude who thinks gorillas are fake and zoos are part of the global plot.
6 posted on
04/25/2024 10:56:49 AM PDT by
Callahan
( )
To: Callahan
'It’s fascinating how they twist “critical-thinking” and “doing their own research” into passionate support for absurd, quixotic (literal) world view.'
(Don't forget "Socratic Method".I think I've seen some interesting 'twisting' of that, too. Can't quite recall where...)
7 posted on
04/25/2024 10:58:50 AM PDT by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: Callahan
9 posted on
04/25/2024 11:10:06 AM PDT by
Bulwyf
To: Callahan
Are these people serious? There are a lot of libs who say the same thing about folks who believe God created the Universe in 6 days. Oh, and the same people want to canonize Anthony Fauci.
The earth is round in the Book of DoodleBob. But no flat earther shut down the world for two weeks to flatten the curve.
Flat Earthers are like people who learn Klingon. They can live in their world. They don’t harm me.
I save my ire for Really Bad People.
11 posted on
04/25/2024 11:14:08 AM PDT by
DoodleBob
(Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
To: Callahan
To: Callahan
Same with the chem trail believers .
Or people who think Hillary is innocent .
Bigfoot I’m a bit undecided, some really compelling stories on that. But no pictures.
13 posted on
04/25/2024 11:21:14 AM PDT by
HereInTheHeartland
(Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
To: Callahan
I don’t ‘do’ TikTok, but BitChute is overrun with flat earthers too.
I always wonder if they are serious, really believe the idiocies they spout , or if they are doing it just to ‘mess with the normies’.
To: Callahan
I’ve got a good friend, maybe my best ever looking back on it now, he lives in Texas and I live north of him ..very far.
I haven’t seen him in…decades. He went into drugs so we parted , moved, he became very successful in a very odd way (dogs).
Anyway he is a great guy, and has amazing common sense but since he has no formal education he believes in all that rot: Flat Earth, chemtrails, mind control etc.
18 posted on
04/25/2024 12:29:04 PM PDT by
Phoenix8
To: Callahan
The flat earth society has members all around the globe!
To: Callahan
TikTok is not at all the only source of these myths. They are everywhere out there on the net.
31 posted on
04/25/2024 3:21:49 PM PDT by
Openurmind
(The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
To: Callahan
36 posted on
04/25/2024 3:44:48 PM PDT by
Boomer
(If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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