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if the earth was flat i could go to the beach right now and look across the ocean at portugal. alas i cannot.
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I mean if you live in the south of England you can, on a clear day, go to the cliffs and wave your dick at France.
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Nov 23, 2017 00:23
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OwlFancier posted:I mean if you live in the south of England you can, on a clear day, go to the cliffs and wave your dick at France. Well actually... you can do that even in pitch darkness. They just won't see it unless it's a clear day (and they have a superlarge telescope array  )
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Nov 23, 2017 00:40
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i like to believe that flat earthers were all just clever people making jokes some decades ago and with the internet this translated into idiots taking the jokes seriously and earnestly believing in them
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Nov 23, 2017 00:41
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people still believe anyone other than oswald killed kennedy, the moon landing was fake, aliens crashed at roswell, ghosts exist, bigfoot is real, and 9/11 was an inside job. the earth being flat is about as stupid as any of those.
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Nov 23, 2017 00:42
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Groovelord Neato posted:people still believe anyone other than oswald killed kennedy, the moon landing was fake, aliens crashed at roswell, ghosts exist, bigfoot is real, and 9/11 was an inside job. the earth being flat is about as stupid as any of those. My personal favorite is that microchips are evidence of alien technology transfer at roswell.
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Nov 23, 2017 01:15
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Of course Patton Oswald killed Kennedy alone. Everyone knows that.
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Elias_Maluco posted:Coulndt he just like.. rent a plane (and hire a pilot) and go take a picture of earth's borders? I would be definite proof that earth is indeed a flat disc and seems a lot easier and less risky imo Flexible windows  When you go up high in a plane, the internal air pressure causes the windows to bow out slightly and become concave. This distorts your view out the window and makes the Earth appear curved. In small planes, without internal pressure, the airframe flexing at high altitudes causes the same effect. 
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Nov 23, 2017 01:52
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Ron Jeremy posted:My personal favorite is that microchips are evidence of alien technology transfer at roswell. drat man the aliens were real dicks if they gave us it in 1947 but made it so tricky we couldnt figure it out til like 1959. Whoever was in charge of alien-illuminati negotiation then should be fired.
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Nov 23, 2017 02:14
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It turned out that the negotiator was a lizard man sleeper agent who was angry we stopped the nazis reaching the hollow earth and sabotaged the trade as revenge
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fishmech posted:drat man the aliens were real dicks if they gave us it in 1947 but made it so tricky we couldnt figure it out til like 1959. Whoever was in charge of alien-illuminati negotiation then should be fired. It'd be too obvious if microchips came around so soon after Roswell. The fact that they didn't is proof enough!
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Nov 23, 2017 03:24
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Viewtiful Jew posted:There's no way to get through to people once they start believing in things like "Crisis Actors" is there? Once they've crossed that threshold it's probably impossible to get them back huh?
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Nov 23, 2017 04:09
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How many flat earthers are out there in small boats right now looking for the edge?
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yaffle posted:How many flat earthers are out there in small boats right now looking for the edge? Eight, according to the database.
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Nov 23, 2017 09:58
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So I've been trying to google flat earther's explanations for stuff like horizons, timezones etc and have injured my brain reading their explanations, which mostly involve light actually travelling upwards in a curve.
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Nov 23, 2017 10:11
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Synthbuttrange posted:So I've been trying to google flat earther's explanations for stuff like horizons, timezones etc and have injured my brain reading their explanations, which mostly involve light actually travelling upwards in a curve. Your feeble, brainwashed sheep brain can't handle that kind of information yet. You need some crystals to understand it.
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QuarkJets posted:i like to believe that flat earthers were all just clever people making jokes some decades ago and with the internet this translated into idiots taking the jokes seriously and earnestly believing in them I once had "President, Flat Earth Society - North Carolina Chapter" as part of my signature on usenet. While I didn't get a staggering number of emails earnestly asking me for membership info, I did get a few.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:It'd be too obvious if microchips came around so soon after Roswell. The fact that they didn't is proof enough! the famous point-contact transistor was invented at bell labs 5 months after roswell though 
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GWBBQ posted:Sandy Hook Truthers claimed I don't exist, so I'm going to with yes. Wouldn't a non-real person say THIS exact thing to act real? 
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Flat-Earther's Plan to Launch Himself in Homemade Rocket Just Hit a Problem A California man who planned to launch himself 1,800 feet (550 metres) high Saturday in a homemade scrap-metal rocket - in an effort to prove that Earth is flat - said he is postponing the experiment after he couldn't get permission from a federal agency to conduct it on public land. GUBBMINT! 
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Synthbuttrange posted:Flat-Earther's Plan to Launch Himself in Homemade Rocket Just Hit a Problem Launch it anyway, worst case scenario is you don't get fined.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Launch it anyway, worst case scenario is you don't get fined. Others have already pointed out that given the altitude of his rocket, he could have just hired a light aircraft to take him up. I just realized that he wouldn't even have had to do that. The Burj Khalifa is taller than his rocket would have gone. He literally could have taken an elevator to a high enough altitude. Then again, to get to that building, he would need to fly in a commercial airliner which would have been many times higher. So yeah, he's a very dumb person.
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Or a very smart one, funding his rocketry hobby by grifting idiots 
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Xarn posted:Or a very smart one, funding his rocketry hobby by grifting idiots its this.
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So I guess holocaust denial is now in the conspiracy theory wheelhouse of spiritual new age guys. I just had to spend several agonizing days convincing several of them in my immediate community that A)The holocaust was not an elaborate hoax perpetrated by Rothschild Zionist bankers and B)They are in fact, being really racist by asserting this fact. ("No man, we don't hate jews, we hate the zionists!") Even more disheartening was the amount of people jumping in to chastise me for suppressing their right to harmlessly ask questions  I shouldn't have been surprised, their Facebook walls are like an escalating series of increasingly ridiculous conspiracy theories.
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Lugubrious! posted:So I guess holocaust denial is now in the conspiracy theory wheelhouse of spiritual new age guys. IIRC one of the more prominent alt-right figures did a lot of drugs and credits them in part for "getting woke". I'm not afraid of advocating people taking psychedelics and seeing through the bullshit of the mundane, but the crap that so many folks latch onto afterwards is very  , there's a prevalent theme of contrarianism in the psychedelic scene. There's a lot of trippers who are balls deep into all the cliche conspiracies and I'm pretty sure that demographic constitutes a fair percentage of the sincere flat earthers. As with schizophrenia it's hard to tell if psychedelics are directly responsible for symptoms or if they just aggravate an underlying condition. And to quote one of the guys doing the rounds as an "entheogen advocate" in Australia, in response to criticism on reddit: Julian Palmer posted:This label "holocaust denier" I think is used by people to distract people from actually thinking and investigating themselves the nuances and details related to emotionally charged topics like "the holocaust"
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The Sausages posted:IIRC one of the more prominent alt-right figures did a lot of drugs and credits them in part for "getting woke". I'm not afraid of advocating people taking psychedelics and seeing through the bullshit of the mundane, but the crap that so many folks latch onto afterwards is very they are people who know that our current society is very very screwed up, but don't have any theoretical framework to deal with the realization so they pile up a bunch of nonsensical crap until they have what they perceive as a complete worldview
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A disturbingly large number of alt-righters are convinced that a dude posting intentionally vague cryptic messages on 8chan is directing them to help fight the secret (meme?) war between Trump and the deep state. Also the weird phrasing in Trump's tweets is just coded messages, and Hillary and McCain have been arrested and are wearing ankle monitors. It all builds off of Pizzagate. Oh yeah, also anyone on the right saying anything even remotely related to one of the common words in this guy's posts means they're secretly in the know. It's fascinating but also real disturbing to try and understand. One of these dudes is going to convince himself Trump told him to shoot someone. Here's one of their hangouts
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Oh, this seems healthy. -A Trump fan
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Goon Danton posted:Oh, this seems healthy. To be honest, belittling trump supporters does make me feel good. They're such loving scum
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vseslav.botkin posted:Jethro's right, you haven't demonstrated it's "the entirety of the ultra elite" yet.
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You guys into black goo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j88BcgzzcTc According to Harald’s research, an invading version of what is knows as “black goo” landed on our planet roughly 80,000 years ago. This black goo could be considered a type of alien A.I. or a “seed device” for creating life within a biosphere. This invader does not belong here, and has been attempting to unpack it’s program to the determent of our natural order. It contains remnants of it’s original lifeforms, spider type beings, which have been coaxing the elite into carrying out their plans for Earth bound manifestation for as long as we know. Our energies have been used as feed, and our environment has been tweaked to make the people weak. The plan to get these higher dimensional Archonic beings to “hook” into their human husks is getting closer all the time, and is at the heart of the transhumanist agenda.
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That's just the plot to like half the run of The X-Files.
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Dude you fell asleep watching prometheus.
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Fried Watermelon posted:You guys into black goo? No, but you said the word goo, and there's a related video explaining that they're demons, so uh down.
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Polygynous posted:That's just the plot to like half the run of The X-Files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Skies
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I understand how you could arrive at Holocaust denial - either you're an actual Nazi and in order to justify your ideology you have to show that the original nazis weren't the greatest monsters to ever live, or you've convinced yourself that the Holocaust is simply a hoax used by powerful Jews and/or the state of Israel to shield themselves from criticism. The problem of course is that the Holocaust might just be the single most well-documented crime in existence. We've got the minutes from the Wansee conference where Nazi high-ups are on record saying outright "We need to solve the jewish question, and by 'solve' we mean kill them all". We've got recordings of the speech Himmler held before the assembled SS command where he goes "Killing all the Jews is necessary, but no-one can ever know we're doing it". We've got public newspaper articles, books and radio broadcasts where Hitler, Göbbels and other high-ranking nazis are openly and proudly saying that one of their goals is to (in one way or another) get rid of all Jews in Europe. We have court testimonies of not only camp inmates, but of camp commanders, guards and doctors, none of who ever denied the purpose of the camps or what took place there - only their own personal responsibility for it. We have the loving time tables of the trains that brought people in, and we have the cargo manifests for how many loving people they crammed into the cattle carts. We have the public records of the Nazi regime stripping away the rights and legal protection of Jews over the course of a decade, and then shipping them off to the east. We have the official census showing that between 1930 and 1945, some 6 million jews just vanish off the face of the Earth. What the gently caress, exactly, are you suggesting happpened to those 6 million jews?
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How much of it is being in favor of the Holocaust but not wanting to admit it?
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"The Holocaust never happened! Also it would be great if it did!"
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Yeah, that's also a hosed-up thing - like, the Nazis were really, really open with wanting to kill the Jews. So we have a regime hell-bent on destroying an entire people, talking openly about how they want to kill this entire people, taking their property, stripping away their rights and shipping them off to camps in occupied lands. We know this because the actual Nazis were bragging about doing this. But for some weird reason they never, after going through all this, got around to actually killing the Jews? Like, if you could travel back in time to 1933 and ask the Nazi high-ups "You wanna put jews in gas chambers?" they'd be like "Hell yeah that's 100% our thing". But the conspiracy theory hinges on them not actually doing it. Because we as a society have decided that the industrialized murder of 6 million people is the most supremely hosed-up thing you can do. So if you want to make the Nazis look like the good guys ie if you are in favor of destroying the entire Jewish people, you have to deny that the Nazis actually tried to do that.
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