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Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 5 weeks agoI do wonder if it’s something like the Birds Aren’t Real organized conspiracy; but snowballed out of control.
As I understood it back in the old times…. The Flat Earth Society was a groups of logical rationalist who got together and for shits and giggles (as well as practicing rational debate) would pick an indefensible argument (eg. the earth is flat) and attempt to use rational arguments to support that indefensible claim.
Basically a rowdy drunk philosophers get together.
but snowballed out of control.
I don’t think it “snowballed” out of control or whatever. I think that group is full of trolls that don’t believe what they say.
Each one of them is a black hole that eats all of your time while you try to debate them.
You have more faith in human intelligence than I do…
Human intelligence, but not morality.
People aren’t always stupid, many people are stupid, but some people are only pretending to be stupid to do evil things.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I always assumed it was something like that. A thought experiment that someone who wasn’t “in the know,” stumbled upon, latched onto, and created an entire subculture.
sazey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I always assumed it was a 4chan troll gone wild.