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If you laugh at people who tithe to the church but still support BLM, you're kind of an idiot.

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The people who say that "words are violence" are telling you what they plan to do if you say something they don't like.

The point is to make you responsible for their reaction. Like any abuser.

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Also: "chemicals"/"chemical free," "all natural" and "organic."

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Authoritarians never expect to be held to the same rules they want to impose on others.

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Flat Earthers Claim Australia Doesn't Exist And People Who Live There Are Actors Paid By NASA

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By: Umer Abrar

Published: Nov 2022

A rising number of individuals seem to believe that the earth is, in fact, flat.  But it gets better. They also claim that Australia is a fake.

According to a popular Facebook rant, the whole country (and, by extension, the 24 million people who reside there) is a hoax. The idea was revived during a recent meeting of so-called Flat Earthers in Birmingham when over 200 individuals gathered to certify that the Earth is nothing more than a huge pancake.

The "fake Australia" post first appeared on Reddit in 2017 and was authored by Shelley Floryd. However, it seems to be returning to the minds of the spherically challenged at the minute.

The rant goes: "Australia is not real. It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again. It's a coverup [sic] for one of the greatest mass murders in history."

Moreover, the post reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer-generated personas or paid actors hired by NASA and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong".

Surprisingly, the pilots seem to be all in on it - and have been flying you to areas of South America for years. Flat Earth beliefs have been debunked by almost everyone capable of logical thinking, yet the notion is now experiencing a revival.

Over 200 conspiracy theorists met in Birmingham at a hotel for the UK's first Flat Earth Convention. The three-day conference included nine speakers who took the stage to share their theories about why the Earth is flat.

According to The Telegraph, Dave Marsh, an NHS worker who spoke at the conference, said: “My research destroys big bang cosmology.

“It supports the idea that gravity doesn’t exist and the only true force in nature is electromagnetism.”

While NASA has used GPS, satellites, and photos from space to verify that the Earth is round, Flat Earth enthusiasts claim that they have proof that the space agency is lying. 

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Aristotle figured out the Earth is round 2300 years ago. Eratosthenes measured it 2200 years ago. Some of the people who scoff at this as anti-science idiocy think sex is "assigned" at birth.

What's it called when you have generally humanist principles, but periodically despair that all human life on the planet should be wiped out?

Asking for a friend.

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"There is no refutation of Darwinian evolution in existence. If a refutation ever were to come about, it would come from a scientist, and not an idiot."

-- Richard Dawkins (regarding idiot Ray Comfort)

It's okay to question science, but it has to be with an understanding of the language, terms and principles of what you're questioning, not "why are there still monkeys?" Because we solve problems in science by doing more science, not less.

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My whole theory, I call it the Lab in the Looking Glass Theory of freedom of speech. That there's always value in knowing what people really think and why.

And meanwhile, I wrote an article about this right at the beginning of the coronavirus, like if you could imagine a situation in which China had a free press i honestly think there's a good chance that it never would have gotten very far to begin with.

Because as soon as you start having a mystery virus, you know, clustered, I think we could have had a much more comprehensive response to it very early on, if it hadn't been suppressed.

So, I think that there is a big disadvantage not allowing free speech in your society.

[ From: FAIR Perspectives Ep. 17 - Free Speech Is Weird w/ Greg Lukianoff ]