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Out of curiosity, what are flat earthers saying? That Russia faked a crash and India faked a success? Why?!
by psychphysic 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what are flat earthers saying? That Russia faked a crash and India faked a success? Why?!
- narrator 3y agoAttacking the source of the information is so common these days that most people mistake that for a good argument.
- matt-attack 3y agoDoesn’t help that the video they’re all cheering over is a computer rending (presumably being pieced together from real time telemetry data being received). Gives the layperson the idea that the whole thing is being faked.
- moopie 3y agoNASA paid both to keep the globe earth delusion alive Or something like that
- bearjaws 3y agoYou can't logic your way out of a position you didn't logic your way into.
- readthenotes1 3y agoA friend of mine said: You can't logic your way out of a crazy box. (Referring how to treat with people who are somewhat mentally Disturbed)
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- psychphysic 3y agoWell put.
- jackmott42 3y agoYeah, a lot of people have this idea that you fight misinformation with calm, collected, rational argument. Well, I guess I need to prepare a cold, calm, collected rational argument about how that isn't at all effective, heh.
- Waterluvian 3y agoGoogle doesn't return any meaningful results for this. Is this your quote? It's really good and I'd like to duplicate it for regular use. Edit: Aha I found it by relaxing the query params: probably Jonathan Swift.
- matt-attack 3y ago> Jonathan Swift Well that makes some sense. Thanks for highlighting this excellent quote.
- hotnfresh 3y agohttps://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/?amp=1 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/?amp=1
- robofanatic 3y agoOnly if you can prove that birds are real.
- sph 3y agoThe counter-conspiracy is that flat earthism is larger than it actually is. It's basically a meme about making fun of them, when I reckon in reality there's not a lot of them; I would bet there's a percentage of flat earthers well below the lizardman constant of 4%. So in effect, the Flat Earth theory is popular purely because of people making fun of it. There are no more flat earthers than people who hear voices or that believe they are actually reincarnated Jesus.
- narrator 3y agoI kind of like flat earth because it uses all the bad argument techniques that people I can't criticize on HN without getting downvotes use. Thus, it provides a good example cases for most common bad arguments used in online debates, especially science related debates. Somebody should put together a dictionary of informal fallacies with examples from the flat earth movement because it is not politically incorrect to criticize them while it is to criticize other movements that are more popular that regularly employ these fallacies. One more thing: speaking of people believing they're Christ, a random guy in China in the 1850s started to believe he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ and started the biggest civil war in world history.
- jmondi 3y agoThat’s what I thought about QAnon too. Turns out, there’s a boatload of morons out there. I have extended relatives that were QAnon fools, and are now flat earther fools.
- jimmydddd 3y agoThere may be a sub-group that just wants to be open-minded. I'm 100% a science guy, but I refuse to put the probability of flat earth at 0%. Maybe 0.00000000000000001%, but not 0. :-)
- Daviey 3y agoI used to work with an engineer that assured me he had looked into flat earth theory and it was "legit". This same person told me he could re-write Terraform in a day, so my view of him was skewed. However, I was genuinely surprised to find a real flat-earther in a technical role.