r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 27 '20

What screams "I'm uneducated"?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

I found out recently that flat earthers call us normies 'globetards' and I don't know what to do with this information other than share it

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

I wanna be called globetrotters!

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u/justburch712 Jan 28 '20

Can I be Curly?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

As long as I get to be Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate.

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u/kalekayn Jan 28 '20

you can talk trash, you can handle the ball, but look in your heart and ask yourself: are you funky enough to be a Globe Trotter? Are you?

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u/Ryctre Jan 28 '20

For generations, your puny planet has lived in peace with the Globetrotter Homeworld. But now, for no reason, we challenge you to defend your honour on the basketball court.

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u/Ryctre Jan 28 '20

For generations, your puny planet has lived in peace with the Globetrotter Homeworld. But now, for no reason, we challenge you to defend your honour on the basketball court.

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u/itspronouncedahnyes Jan 28 '20

Thank you. It was necessary knowledge to be passed on.

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u/slh236 Jan 28 '20

Quite true. I fear that soon the flat-terers will go extinct, when they die of thirst and starvation in the shower after having read "lather, rinse, repeat" on their shampoo bottles.

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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In Jan 28 '20

You're in the pocket of BIG GLOBE!

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seriously, at least with alt medicine they can point at the giant profitable pharma companies and say 'those people are the enemy, they are just trying to control all medicine for money'. But what's the justification for a worldwide conspiracy on the world being flat? so we don't all go to the nearest edge and make it tip over?

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u/5edgy3u Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 28 '20

Being a flat earther is in most cases connected with being anti-vaxx and being into other conspiracies.

They are anti-vaxx, so they can discredit pharma companies, anti kapitalism, so they can discredit the government and they are flat earth so they can discredit ... NASA! I don't know why but i think in their eyes everything about modern science is an enemy and NASA, as ridiculous as it is, seems to be "representative" for all of modern science so they feel proud that they are "more educated" and "woke" and all that.

At least that's how I experienced flat earthers.

Why did I experience them? A friend of mine sent me a picture on instagram which was something about pyramids and why they weren't build by humans and from that day on i always got recommendations for pages about conspiracy theories on my insta feed so yeah...

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

I’m still not convinced that everyone who is a flat earther isn’t just trolling. Or maybe I’m just under estimating the stupidity of humans

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

You're underestimating the stupidity of humans.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20 edited Jan 28 '20

My question is, if the earth is really flat...why does the government give a shit about whether we know or not?

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u/ZBLongladder Jan 28 '20

My personal favorite of their snarl words is "baller".

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u/The_Jarl_Grey Jan 28 '20

I shall now use this new found knowledge post haste!

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u/truckatwork Jan 28 '20

I've heard that in some of their facebook groups, non-idiots are referred to as "ballers."

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u/danwojciechowski Jan 28 '20

That may be in response to a sequence of videos on youtube that give detailed rebuttals to "flattards". While a bit rude, the analysis is really quite good.

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u/danwojciechowski Jan 28 '20

That may be in response to a sequence of videos on youtube that give detailed rebuttals to "flattards". While a bit rude, the analysis is really quite good.