• tourist@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hate that whenever I check in to see how flat earthers are doing they’ve somehow grown in size

    Like… Why

    They have to do all this shoddy crackhead troll math to prove how something like timezones can work on a flat earth but then it completely invalidates the shoddy crackhead troll math they did to prove how gravity works on a flat earth.

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      10 months ago

      It allows stupid people to have a community where they feel smart, and that they know something most people don’t.

      I bet that’s not something they are used to

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      10 months ago

      At the end of the day people love being in the “in” group that knows everyone else is blinded by falsehoods and they’re above it all and “in the know.” Religion has been that for a lot of people in the past as well as in current times, pretty much every high control group is developed due to this mentality as well.

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      10 months ago

      why

      Because it’s a business, there are people out there profiting from it and so it keeps growing

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        10 months ago

        That’s the usual explanation that’s given, but how do they even profit? What do you sell to those idiots? (I suppose that since they’re idiots you can just sell them pretty much anything)