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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?

09.06.2025 01:31

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

Surveyors and civil engineers never account for curvature

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?

We don't have technology to go to the moon.

Why does everyone hate Anthony Joshua so much? I get that he isn’t the best heavyweight boxer ever but people claim he’s a no skill fighter but he has an Olympic gold medal, a world championship, and beat Klitschko, a dominant force in boxing

The visible horizon always "rises to eye level."

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

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.

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

Water doesn't bend.

The Antarctic treaty restricts independent exploration.

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