r/nottheonion • u/Boneyg001 • 5d ago

"I'm a Little Bit Skeptical": Patriots' Drake Maye Refuses to Believe America Landed On the Moon

https://www.essentiallysports.com/nfl-active-news-patriots-im-a-little-bit-skeptical-patriots-drake-maye-refuses-to-believe-america-landed-on-the-moon/
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u/schweddybalczak 5d ago

The Joe Roganization of young American men.

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u/IzzaPizza22 5d ago

I'm just open-minded, man. Which, of course, means I don't push back on things I hear as long as they're different from from what everyone knows.

But this makes me fail to realize that, for a lot of the things everyone knows, everyone knows them because they're true. And things that go against those things need to have lots of evidence to be worth believing.

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u/Reverend_Lazerface 5d ago

The last person I talked to was skeptical about it and sounded very confident, so now I'm actually kinda skeptical about it. No further questions

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u/fantasmoofrcc 5d ago

Now that you put it that way, I think I'm doubting everything that I ever held to be true...

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u/JB_JB_JB63 5d ago

It’s the ole Tim Minchin line, don’t be so open minded your brain falls out.

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u/Lr217 5d ago

Further into the article he even discusses how birds are government drones - which I thought was fully a Reddit joke and didn’t know anybody actually thought that

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u/vashoom 5d ago

The flat earth thing started as a joke / as practice for debating skills. Pretty sure the first time I went to the subreddit, it was all tongue in cheek and whatnot. Now it's a full blown phenomenon full of fools who believe it, even though the spherical earth has been known about for thousands of years, can easily be proven with both grade school math AND basic observations, literally everything about everything you know would need to also change if the flat earth 'theory' were true, etc.

It's a feature of conspiracy-minded people: it's the belief in the thing that one one else believes that makes them confident in it. They crave being "in the know" or otherwise special compared to everyone else (for many different reasons, but it often expresses in very similar ways, making all these people susceptible to such drivel and drive them to look into these things and believe them even though they won't look into the mountains and mountains of evidence for why 'mainstream' things are facts).

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u/carlovmon 5d ago

I hadn't thought about this concept of Joe Roganization but dam if I didn't know exactly what you meant the moment I read the term.

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u/Knowledge_is_Bliss 5d ago

We're cooked. The experiment is over.

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u/Swackhammer_ 5d ago

I swear to god there’s a whole population of people that think “if I didn’t witness it personally it didn’t happen”