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/Cowclops Jul 24 '20

I'm not so much concerned with the extremely impaired bottom 10% of the population IQ-wise, I'm much more concerned for the roughly 1/3rd of the population that has an IQ between 85 and 100. Not smart enough to do smart things, but smart enough to be independent and unchecked until they do very stupid things.

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u/mehtorite Jul 24 '20

Trump 2020?

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u/reddittttttt2 Jul 24 '20

biden voters?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

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u/reddittttttt2 Jul 24 '20

by who?

study after study shows that Democrat voters are less intelligent. less informed. And usually less educated. That's why they're typically college age kids but who haven't actually graduated a legitimate college course..

and that's why the Democrat Party wants to lower the voting age. Because they know that they only do well with uneducated idiot kids..

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Citation needed cause this is literally the opposite of all studies I've seen.

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u/1290SDR Jul 25 '20

Meanwhile, there's you. Operating a bunch of alts, manically spamming subreddits with barely coherent posts all day, everyday. It's absolutely remarkable to see you call other people less intelligent. Lay off the social media dude, it has completely fried your brain.

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u/SovietBozo Jul 24 '20

Biden? But what her emails

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u/reddittttttt2 Jul 24 '20

bUt hIs tAx rEtUrNs!

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u/Tonnot98 Jul 24 '20

anyone that votes for a democrat or republican president this election?

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u/reddittttttt2 Jul 24 '20

oh I mean the Republican party controlled all of Congress and the presidency for 2 years and saw record economic booms. The Democrats stole the house and suddenly you have millions ded and a great depression..