• EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I feel like it’s been memory holed, but I remember 00’s flat earth being genuinely smart people using it to illustrate the ridiculousness of teaching creation beside evolution, which was a push around that time. It was a Church of Satan style mockery, but I guess the arguments were too convincing.

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      6 months ago

      I member… i learned of it from a vsauce video i watched when it first dropped. Was mindblown years later when ppl were touting the flat earth society seriously. Their tagline was literally, “We Have Members Around the Globe!”

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      It was a weird blend of that and true believers. Then the people there for the joke of it all got weirded out by the crazies and left.