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by j4yav 1520 days ago
Qanon is a better example of lots of people believing some really outlandish stuff and aligning it closely with politics.

Flat earth is also interesting because it tends to be correlated with strongly religious.

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I've yet to see any kind of productive or useful discourse come out of mainstream media in regards to the Q nonsense. That kind of stuff can't gain traction under a system that prides itself on truth and transparency. Same goes for the COVID-19 related tensions that culminated in pitiful US vaccination rates and people eating animal-grade deworming paste. The underlying problems are not really so partisan in nature.

>Flat earth is also interesting because it tends to be correlated with strongly religious.

I think it would be more interesting to see how many of them haven't been on a plane and how long ago they last read non-fiction literature.