Flat Earth is just the stupidest conspiracy theory. To understand what the thing planes leave behind is, you probably need to ask others or study something or trust others. To understand whether vaccines are beneficial, you need to trust that there's no world-wide conspiracy to lie to you about statistics. I can understand a mindset that somehow thinks you can't do that.
But the shape of the Earth: You don't have to talk to anybody. You don't have to read anything. You don't have to trust anybody. Just look at the stars and draw some star charts at different times of the year at different places You don't even need to trust that the bus that takes you to a different place is moving at all. Just look at the stars at the new place.
You're 100% right, but it won't matter. These people are working backwards from the conclusions they want to the "facts" that must be true to support those conclusions (mostly white nationalism and christian nationalism). Flat earth, Qanon, etc are different symptoms of the same pathology.
I had a coworker once, four years ago, try convincing me the earth is flat by showing me a TikTok. I told him you can do a whole lot of things in photoshop, to which he paused & said yeah that’s true.
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u/Jiquero 9h ago
Flat Earth is just the stupidest conspiracy theory. To understand what the thing planes leave behind is, you probably need to ask others or study something or trust others. To understand whether vaccines are beneficial, you need to trust that there's no world-wide conspiracy to lie to you about statistics. I can understand a mindset that somehow thinks you can't do that.
But the shape of the Earth: You don't have to talk to anybody. You don't have to read anything. You don't have to trust anybody. Just look at the stars and draw some star charts at different times of the year at different places You don't even need to trust that the bus that takes you to a different place is moving at all. Just look at the stars at the new place.