• Annoyed_🦀 A
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    69 months ago

    A lot. Imagine antivax and flatearther use your argument when caught lying.

    • @batmaniam@lemmy.world
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      49 months ago

      Man, I could be wrong but I swear the flat earth started as a joke like the whole “birds aren’t real” thing. But it had a more intellectual thought excersizey angle like “tell me why the earth is round”. I know for a fact that’s how my earth science teacher used it getting into how to structure a testable hypothesis and the scientific method. I wonder everytime I see flat earth shit when exactly he had to retire that one. It’s to bad because it was great then.

      • Annoyed_🦀 A
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        29 months ago

        Yeah, iirc Qanon start as a 4chan joke that got seriously bad too.