There was this one video where flat-Earthers tried to prove the Earth was flat, so they recreated the experiment by Eratosthenes and accidentally proved the Earth was round. I can’t find it right now but it’s hilarious.
This past December, The Final Experiment went down to Antarctica to take a video of the 24 hour sun. It’s causing much consternation among flat earthers.
I believe firmly once the Flat earthers start to lose traction so will the Qanon and all the other dumb “conspiracy theories” then we can get back to the good stuff, bigfoot, aliens, loch Ness monster
Unfortunately, what’s more likely is that while some will fall away, the remainder will be more extreme. That’s what happens when religious prophecies fail, such as The Great Disappointment among Adventists.
QAnon ain’t going away, its an integral part of a fascist cult which is currently couping / causing a constitutional crisis.
QAnon is the rough equivalent of the Thule Society and the subsequent mystical/pagan/occult beliefs that many of the SS higher ups believed in.
QAnon is basically a synthesis, or syncretic combination of a whole bunch of interlocking conspiracy theories, that functionally constitute a religion, that played a crucial role in getting the Trump cult going.
Which is not unlike how the Thule Society came up with a synthesis or syncretism of existing fringe crackpot theories and norse mythology and race ‘science’, and laid the ideological/religious/worldview foundations for the Nazi party, with its beliefs continuing to evolve and inform, to varying degrees, a whole lot of the key members of the Nazi party and official policy.
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Himmler, the head of the SS, had his own goddamned castle that he and other more devoted occultist Nazis would literally gather in for arcane rituals.
QAnon version of this is insane QAnon livestreaming prophets that talk to God and predict Trump will win and is in fact literally annointed by God, and then we he doesn’t well actually thats because demons and also he is the real President.
Those people are largely all still going strong, by the way, they all just migrated to alternative platforms… but they have huge numbers of regular viewers.
You may find this video interesting. It talks about how “big tent” conspiracy theories like flat earth and qanon are related. https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44 TO BE CLEAR: the video is not in support of the theories! I’m reading the first sentence of this comment back in my head and it feels like it could go either way.
There was one guy who designed what is actually an elegant experiment, placing several vertical surfaces, signs basically, with holes in them in a straight line a distance apart at the same elevation above sea level. If the Earth is flat, one should be able to see straight through all of the holes in the signs; if the earth is round, the holes will curve down and away. He observed that they curved down and away. Then of course proceeded to make up bullshit about how his own test was invalid.
To be perfectly fair, when the guy said the test was inconclusive, he was right… To a point.
His failure was that he only did the test once and in one location, which just proves a hill/valley could be playing a factor in the results. To have true empirical results, the test would need to be done at multiple locations, each a random but sizable distance apart.
The scientific method relies on repeatability and reliability in data to provide proof to anything and he wasn’t really using either.
There was this one video where flat-Earthers tried to prove the Earth was flat, so they recreated the experiment by Eratosthenes and accidentally proved the Earth was round. I can’t find it right now but it’s hilarious.
This past December, The Final Experiment went down to Antarctica to take a video of the 24 hour sun. It’s causing much consternation among flat earthers.
I believe firmly once the Flat earthers start to lose traction so will the Qanon and all the other dumb “conspiracy theories” then we can get back to the good stuff, bigfoot, aliens, loch Ness monster
Unfortunately, what’s more likely is that while some will fall away, the remainder will be more extreme. That’s what happens when religious prophecies fail, such as The Great Disappointment among Adventists.
QAnon ain’t going away, its an integral part of a fascist cult which is currently couping / causing a constitutional crisis.
QAnon is the rough equivalent of the Thule Society and the subsequent mystical/pagan/occult beliefs that many of the SS higher ups believed in.
QAnon is basically a synthesis, or syncretic combination of a whole bunch of interlocking conspiracy theories, that functionally constitute a religion, that played a crucial role in getting the Trump cult going.
Which is not unlike how the Thule Society came up with a synthesis or syncretism of existing fringe crackpot theories and norse mythology and race ‘science’, and laid the ideological/religious/worldview foundations for the Nazi party, with its beliefs continuing to evolve and inform, to varying degrees, a whole lot of the key members of the Nazi party and official policy.
…
Himmler, the head of the SS, had his own goddamned castle that he and other more devoted occultist Nazis would literally gather in for arcane rituals.
QAnon version of this is insane QAnon livestreaming prophets that talk to God and predict Trump will win and is in fact literally annointed by God, and then we he doesn’t well actually thats because demons and also he is the real President.
Those people are largely all still going strong, by the way, they all just migrated to alternative platforms… but they have huge numbers of regular viewers.
You may find this video interesting. It talks about how “big tent” conspiracy theories like flat earth and qanon are related. https://youtu.be/JTfhYyTuT44 TO BE CLEAR: the video is not in support of the theories! I’m reading the first sentence of this comment back in my head and it feels like it could go either way.
Love this video and have forced it on many of my friends. It’s a straight up documentary and it’s so interesting to me.
Dan is the best. One of the great old school YouTuber essayists. He really leans into a topic and interrogates it from every direction.
Hes got great videos on the metaverse, crypto scams and hilariously, the complexity of making cooking videos.
Flat earthers believe they were just inside the Las Vegas dome.
There was one guy who designed what is actually an elegant experiment, placing several vertical surfaces, signs basically, with holes in them in a straight line a distance apart at the same elevation above sea level. If the Earth is flat, one should be able to see straight through all of the holes in the signs; if the earth is round, the holes will curve down and away. He observed that they curved down and away. Then of course proceeded to make up bullshit about how his own test was invalid.
Yes, that’s it! I must have gotten confused about what video it was.
Wasn’t that the Netflix movie behind the curve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl-uYf622J4
To be perfectly fair, when the guy said the test was inconclusive, he was right… To a point.
His failure was that he only did the test once and in one location, which just proves a hill/valley could be playing a factor in the results. To have true empirical results, the test would need to be done at multiple locations, each a random but sizable distance apart.
The scientific method relies on repeatability and reliability in data to provide proof to anything and he wasn’t really using either.