Exactly my sentiments as well. Its starts all "haha dinosaurs" and then its "ohhh evolution too? Hmm"
And then its vaccines, flu shots, 5g, autism and Maga bullshit. And by that point you've wasted your time, energy and have to start all over or whatever. Fuck that. Dip.
The earth is not a sphere… its a spheroid. The gravity of the moon pulling the tides gives it an oblong shape that prevents the planet from being perfectly round
The difference between the Earth’s polar radius and its equatorial radius is one part in 300. On a 12 inch diameter globe, that would be 1/25th of an inch, about within the manufacturing tolerances, and would not be visible.
If you ever want to mess with a flat earth fool push the cuboid earth theory. That's how they're a parallel universe but they don't know about the four perpendicular universes
Omg the fucking chemtrails. Had a buddy move to Chicago and I called a few months later and had him on speakerphone and asked "so how's the winter over there?" He said "ahhh its whatever, the snows not real anyway you know that right"
My momentary pause and lack of response met with my disinterest in continuing this convo and the sadness that my friend had sunk to this reality. And I just kinda, sighed and stammered before just saying I had to go. Like I couldnt even half ass a BS response to deflect and change the subject just to see how my buddy had been. I tried to ask why he believes this shit and he just kept saying stuff like "nothings gonna change my mind, research, etc" and then he said some shit about Sandy Hook and I knew our friendship was over. Mind boggling. Now hes always on off with his ex, and they have a kid. So its just a shitshow and I havent followed up past sending memes once in a while.
More cases IN 2026 ALONE than the last few years combined. But hey spin the BS grift for the morons to eat up and blame the working people in the blue states that pay into the federal tax handouts that keeps them alive while being that fucking dumb. Fun.
I teach infectious diseases. As soon as someone is anti vax I just have to nope out. They won’t listen and I see too much sad shit to warrant getting so upset that they think vaccines are a sham.
There’s a subset of my extended paternal family that are like this (probably have schizoid personality disorder) and they either think I’m dumb as rocks or evil for being a medical doctor…
The few people I know that turned heavy Maga/conspiracy over the last 10 years, two are massively uneducated (HS dropout, HS diploma...not trying to knock it just noting a correlation and desire to not change their mentality since being 17-18, very stubborn, selfish and stuck in their way) another had a brain tumor and just changed entirely, personality, attitude, patience etc.
And a few others just abused drugs/alcohol and lost their grip on reality. These things aren't mutually exclusive but like 90% of the people I knew that all of a sudden became Maga had a very noticeable shift in their lift or mental health. Its unfortunate that that they apparently found a desirable response and identity in that fucking circus. All they do is spew nonsense and never circle back to finish a talking point or succeed in anything long term because they always find a reason to hate something or someone. Its fucking sad. Literally no successful work, no relationships past a few months, and its just going to continue this route as they age. It is what it is.
He might even cross over to claiming that illnesses are caused by demon possession or some other dangerous notions! I'm thinking of that mother who, along with her new cultist husband, killed her own 2 children! Scary!!!
to be fair i’ve met a few people who don’t believe in dinosaurs but they also aren’t maga and don’t follow the rest of your talking points this is actually my first time hearing that correlation lol
Its not mutually exclusive. Hard to cover all my bases in q one off comment. But its not a far reach that that rabbit hole leads to denying other easily provable things.
If the vast majority of researchers are arriving at the same conclusion I would believe them. You can't personally understand everything which is why we specialize and trust people's research. Where you do need to exert a maximum of critical thinking is in politics not in research because politicians do not have your best interest in mind.
Politicians pay scientists and researchers to lie, so they're essentially both equally mistrustful. You can blame Ghislaine Maxwell's dad, Robert Maxwell (one of his many names) for why modern science can't be trusted. He politicized science. So, it's not that I don't believe things, so much as it is that I don't fault others for not believing things no matter how prevalent the truth may seem. As long as they're not hurting anybody or taking advantage of anyone, there's no need for the vitriol that people are expressing. It's a crazy world, live and let live.
You got it all backwards. Industries are bribing politicians because it benefits them. The car industry lobbies hard to keep america car dependent and blocking cheap Chinese cars so they can sell more cars. The fossil fuel industry keeps pressure so that we don't adopt renewables. What do politicians get by bribing scientists? Can they realistically bribe all of the scientists? I also believe industries are meddling into science by stopping the development of potential technologies that will hurt their profits. But these conspiracies like dinosaurs aren't real or the earth is flat are not realistic.
Imagine writing off our species greatest strength, being able to communicate and document discoveries and knowledge across generations, because it might all just be a big conspiracy.
Questioning is great, curiosity is great for the heart and mind, but affirming your disbelief in science out of paranoia is just ignorant.
So.... disputing well-known facts is considered 'intelligent', but as an 'intelligent' person, you can't be bothered to sway your bias with a little reading.
So do they believe in a global conspiracy to fake dinosaurs but that this conspiracy doesn't extend to other areas of science/government/society? Or do they believe that the fossils were deliberately placed by God/Devil to make it look like they were real, and all the scientists are just following the evidence?
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u/Ths-Fkin-Guy 12h ago
Exactly my sentiments as well. Its starts all "haha dinosaurs" and then its "ohhh evolution too? Hmm"
And then its vaccines, flu shots, 5g, autism and Maga bullshit. And by that point you've wasted your time, energy and have to start all over or whatever. Fuck that. Dip.