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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?

12.06.2025 16:21

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.

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?

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

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The visible horizon always "rises to eye level."

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

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.

Why can't NASA just bite the bullet and launch a plainly simple mission, audited by flat earther peers start to finish that definitively proves to even the smallest minds that the earth is an oblong spheroid, and not flat?

Water doesn't bend.

The Antarctic treaty restricts independent exploration.

Surveyors and civil engineers never account for curvature

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