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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?

08.06.2025 18:46

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

The Antarctic treaty restricts independent exploration.

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

Surveyors and civil engineers never account for curvature

Do you think there will ever be a movie that features a line such as “You graduated at the top of your class in liberal arts, we need your help”?

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?

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

Why do Muslims not get HIV/AIDS in spite of having 4 wives and multiple relationships?

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.

Water doesn't bend.

The visible horizon always "rises to eye level."

ESA’s new asteroid hunter opens its eye to the sky - European Space Agency