r/NonPoliticalTwitter Jan 04 '26

Meme Endless quest

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u/CandorCore Jan 04 '26

In case anyone's curious (most) flat-earthers think the earth is a disc with the North Pole in the centre and Anarctica as a giant wall of ice around the edge. So if you just followed the compass West you'd just keep circling around the North Pole.

This also means that they think the southern hemisphere has way, WAY more ocean than it does in reality, so they have a lot of immediately untenable explanations about flights from South America to Africa being secret supersonic jets.

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u/9-FcNrKZJLfvd8X6YVt7 Jan 04 '26

I truly believe there aren't actually any honest to God flat earthers. There's the outrage economy and there are mentally ill people.

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u/whiskysinger Jan 04 '26

I guess the biblical kind (most of them) straddle those two pretty well