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by p3llin0r3 2918 days ago
Flat earthers are a lot less interesting or hard to understand than people realize.

Belief in a flat earth is a dog-whistle for fundamentalist Christians.

So yeah, they don't care about the fact that we can observe the Earth is round or any other proof, their ignorance is proof of their faith.

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That's far too simplistic. Naive people with no bias to start with can and do go down bizarre YouTube rabbit-holes and end up becoming flat-earthers or something else crazy.

In fact, most of today's flat-earthers seem to be primarily driven by the arguments from flat-earth claims and nothing more: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/27/is-the-earth-...