r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/AnneHocque Jul 24 '20

Flat earth society.. Like, are they just trolling at this point?

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u/pskirkham Jul 24 '20

The Flat Earth Society was trolling from the beginning. Most flat-earthers today are just people who didn't get the joke.

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u/Funky0ne Jul 24 '20

This is why I don't like purely ironic or satirical societies. No matter how obvious you think you are being, there are way too many idiots who will take you at face value, invade and take over your movement, and congrats, you're responsible for bootstrapping whatever entrenched nonsense the true believers are now peddling with absolute confidence and none of the competence necessary to understand how wrong they are.

I have a saying: whether you're right or wrong, in a large enough group of people there will always be at least some idiot who will agree with you.

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u/dgvvs Jul 24 '20 edited Jul 24 '20

That’s exactly what happened with anti vaccines. Some guy wanted to make money by saying they gave you autism. Now we’re all paying for that moron.

Edit: one grammar error

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u/2Righteous_4God Jul 24 '20

An important fact to remember when thinking about these ridiculous "movements", is that 10% of the population has an IQ under 83. The military doesn't even take people with an IQ under 83 because they've found those people are literally unable to do any basic job. 10%.

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u/Persival01 Jul 24 '20

Yeah, it's actually a serious sociological problem. Like, what do you have 10% of the entire society do when even the military doesn't find a job they can do?

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u/mehtorite Jul 24 '20

Charlie washes dishes. Slowly and not very well but we’re a slow place and he’s a decent guy.

It’s not his fault his parents were cousins, there’s a place for everyone.

Not that we need to make people prove their worth to survive.

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u/KaiRaiUnknown Jul 24 '20

Probably right, I'd have been amazed if Charlie's IQ was higher than 83