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DontMockMySmock posted:I'm pretty sure it was, at first. Back in '06-'09 or so there was a Weekend Web frontpage article on the "Flat Earth Society," and I'm convinced that 99% of the people posting on there at the time were in on the "joke," inventing from whole cloth the same bizarre rationalizations (the ice wall, the NASA kill team stuff, the bending of light that supposedly explains time zones) ironically that the flat earth movement of the mid-10s would later adopt with sincerity. Of course, flat eartherism in some form has been around a lot longer than that, since the bible says Earth is flat, so it obviously wasn't entirely invented by shitposters. But shitposters elevated it to prominence, I think. In the late 90s I had "MEMBER, FLAT EARTH SOCIETY" in my usenet signature. I got more than one earnest email asking how to join, or what their local chapter's contact info was
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EL BROMANCE posted:Unless I'm misreading what you mean, the sharks are smooth thing did have a tweet that started it off. Branson Reese wrote a comic where he assumed sharks were smooth, and when he was corrected he decided to double down on it for fun as it was making people mad as hell. I did not realize sharks are smooth had a comic, I just assumed it was a goon meme. Also thanks for people who explained the birds aren't real meme! Learning stuff every day on this hellsite.
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https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1479247216682291201 Glad to have that settled.
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The Flat Earth society is from the 1950s
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freeedr posted:The Flat Earth society is from the 1950s And is explicitly a successor to the 19th century Universal Zetetic Society, founded by this absolutely dead serious dude.
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AlbieQuirky posted:And is explicitly a successor to the 19th century Universal Zetetic Society, founded by this absolutely dead serious dude. That wiki is worth a click: “In 1861 when he was 46, Rowbotham married a 15 year old girl (with whom he was living at the time of the marriage) and settled in London, producing 15 known children, of whom only four survived. He was named in numerous cases of wrongful deaths, including a "death by misadventure" for accidentally poisoning one of his own children. He was named responsible for other deaths using his quack cures of phosphorus.”
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Dance McPants posted:^ that's awesome. I'd be lying if I said this hasn't been a bright spot in my doomscrolling: This sounds like a job for Jorts.8
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Lord Hydronium posted:I'm pretty sure the original revival of it a decade or two ago was a joke before it became a real conspiracy theory. Which I assume means that in 10-20 years Eric Trump is going to be running for president on a campaign of eliminating all Deep State bird drones. It was. I read somewhere years ago it started as a debate exercise. Was looking for the article earlier and couldn’t find it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Same people. Hard Times works best when they’re satirizing the punk scene, as its something they really get. The onion-like stuff is just also ran material but gets them way more hits I’m sure. Capitalism! Wish the onion had kept their video production team. Lake Dredge Appraisal, Sex House, and Today Now were wonderful in a I Think You Should Leave way. Now they keep getting sold as a company so much they can’t even include images with older articles anymore.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wish the onion had kept their video production team. Lake Dredge Appraisal, Sex House, and Today Now were wonderful in a I Think You Should Leave way. Now they keep getting sold as a company so much they can’t even include images with older articles anymore. I wish clickhole would have kept their video production team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9Eck2Mv3UA
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wish the onion had kept their video production team. Lake Dredge Appraisal, Sex House, and Today Now were wonderful in a I Think You Should Leave way. Now they keep getting sold as a company so much they can’t even include images with older articles anymore. The Onion has still been good despite ownership changes but it's a shame there will never be another Porkin' Across America.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Wish the onion had kept their video production team. Lake Dredge Appraisal, Sex House, and Today Now were wonderful in a I Think You Should Leave way. Now they keep getting sold as a company so much they can’t even include images with older articles anymore. that poo poo probably only happened because facebook was lying to everyone about video impressions. It hosed up the content generation industry something fierce
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DontMockMySmock posted:Of course, flat eartherism in some form has been around a lot longer than that, since the bible says Earth is flat, so it obviously wasn't entirely invented by shitposters. I don't think the Bible actually says that. We've known the earth was round for pretty much as long as we've had a notion of math and natural philosophy.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I don't think the Bible actually says that. We've known the earth was round for pretty much as long as we've had a notion of math and natural philosophy. Who's "we"? Some ancient cultures knew, some didn't. Flat earthers sure seem to believe the bible supports them. Something about four corners of the earth, the pillars of the earth, Jesus seeing the whole earth from a single mountain that one time, etc. You can explain all of that away (and many less insane christians do), but it wouldn't be the only thing that the ancient Hebrews got wrong about the world that other ancient cultures got right. E.g. they coulda noticed that moonlight comes from the moon being illuminated by the sun, but Genesis 1 makes it pretty clear that they thought of the moon as a light source of its own. And if they're not gonna see that, are they going to notice that Earth's shadow is round during a lunar eclipse? I don't think they were really interested in astronomy the way the Greeks or Mayans or Chinese were.
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Dance McPants posted:^ that's awesome. I'd be lying if I said this hasn't been a bright spot in my doomscrolling: https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1471970335696334849
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“We” meaning humanity in a broad sense, and societies that developed natural philosophy and astronomy in particular. I don’t know where the ancient Hebrews fall specifically in the latter sense, but if someone is a flat earther specifically because they’re a biblical literalist, they would claim the earth is a rhombus and the NWO are hiding the geographical locations of the pillars of the earth, and I haven’t seen those specific conspiracies anywhere in the wild.
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Mr. Lobe posted:I wish clickhole would have kept their video production team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKoiJrEUtI Is an all time classic.
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Ambitious Spider posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXKoiJrEUtI This will always be my favourite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQZK858Xuag
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how does a rumour like that even start why maggi brand stock?
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Like seriously. We can afford this but not universal pre-K?
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We can't afford to send everybody into the marines
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I think you guys are underestimating the total cost of universal pre-k and universal health care vs. a jet pack.
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zoux posted:I think you guys are underestimating the total cost of universal pre-k and universal health care vs. a jet pack. It's one jet pack, Michael. What could it cost, 800B?
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More like how many pounds would it cost, because those are Her Majesty's Royal Marines, not USMC.
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zoux posted:More like how many pounds would it cost, because those are Her Majesty's Royal Marines, not USMC. Oh in that case I'm sure the 787 billion a year are well spent in the US. Glad you could clear up that fact!
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Wanna see the outtakes of a bunch of jarheads managing to slice themselves in half trying to do this.
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Millennials complain about living in a boring cyberpunk dystopia, now they're complaining about living in a cool cyberpunk dystopia smdh
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