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Why do flat earthers think using globetrotter, globetard, and other insults will make the educated arguer fall for the silly flat-earth belief?

09.06.2025 05:35

Why do flat earthers think using globetrotter, globetard, and other insults will make the educated arguer fall for the silly flat-earth belief?

We don't have technology to go to the moon.

Surveyors and civil engineers never account for curvature

Millions of scientists and engineers believe the Earth is spheroid primarily because we were brainwashed by NASA.

What are scads fish? What types are there?

Many of their comments in social media make no sense as evangelism. But they make perfect sense as community affirmation and reinforcement.

Water doesn't bend.

The visible horizon always "rises to eye level."

If a person stops thinking one or two words in a second or half second means he had stopped thinking for half second?

The Antarctic treaty restricts independent exploration.

When they use those terms, they are not trying to convert newcomers to the FE belief. They are signalling their tribal loyalty to other Flat Earthers and their Thought Leaders.

Some of the lies in the Flat Earth narrative seem to exist for that purpose. They are so transparently, obviously false, that they must have some other purpose than evangelism. Why would they make these claims, except to recite the creed in public for other devotees to see?

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