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Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers
The Guardian ^ | 02/17/19 | Ian Sample

Posted on 02/18/2019 7:41:42 AM PST by Simon Green

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To: Simon Green

Ever since I discovered the flat earther comments on those videos are serious I’ve said that those videos are an experiment to wee just how much nonsense you can get people to believe if you make a slick enough video.

Maybe not a conspiracy, but I think that is the motivation behind some. And they may have started off as a joke, like when I reference my home planet and coming to an end of my 300 year assignment here.


21 posted on 02/18/2019 8:21:00 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Simon Green
Global warming is spread by YouTube, kinda a mental virus.
22 posted on 02/18/2019 8:34:31 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Simon Green

Arguments for a flat Earth fall flat.


23 posted on 02/18/2019 8:48:36 AM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Hosting jihadist vidoes? Still okay. By comparison, the Flat Earth hoax is a fart in a hurricane. Thanks Simon Green.

24 posted on 02/18/2019 8:50:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Simon Green

Send them on a one way cruise off the edge.


25 posted on 02/18/2019 9:35:54 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: Simon Green

People who think the Earth is flat have problem with DNA nothing else.Breeding isn’t for everyone.


26 posted on 02/18/2019 9:41:21 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Tell It Right

That’s not really true anymore. A lot of genuine idiots have gotten suckered in by these videos and actually believe them.


27 posted on 02/18/2019 9:53:29 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: BinaryBoy

Asimov used to go to their gatherings. So yes.


28 posted on 02/18/2019 9:56:28 AM PST by discostu (I know that's a bummer baby, but it's got precious little to do with me)
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To: BinaryBoy

Yep, they are going to try and convince the World that Conservatives are Flat Earth.
It worked with Intelligent Design convincing Liberals that Conservatives believe the World is only 4k old.

Seriously, liberals are convinced that we believe this.
They think we are idiots.


29 posted on 02/18/2019 11:33:55 AM PST by Zathras
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To: Magnum44

Disagree strongly. I deal with flat earthers daily on YouTube. The vast majority of them are extreme christian fundamentalist and very conservative. Just a sad fact.

They are mostly mentally ill, too.


30 posted on 02/18/2019 1:24:47 PM PST by TruBluKentuckian
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I deal with flat earthers daily on YouTube.

Why? LOL. I must sympathize with you.

31 posted on 02/18/2019 3:42:11 PM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

It’s a crappy job but someone has to do it...

Oh Lord, if any of them see that they will claim it as proof that I’m a “paid government agent.”


32 posted on 02/18/2019 10:39:25 PM PST by TruBluKentuckian
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To: Simon Green

All youtube has done is allow the rest of us to see how many useful idiots there are out there. It is a very good argument to not allow government by democracy.

JoMa


33 posted on 02/19/2019 3:46:01 AM PST by joma89
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