Kyrie Irving apologies to science teachers for claiming Earth is flat - Sensationalist Headlines

https://apnews.com/c3d2d704f7d94c02a3c14233a8dbefda/Kyrie-Irving-on-flat-Earth-comments:-'I'm-sorry?utm_medium=AP_Sports&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true Kyrie Irving offered a simple message to science teachers Monday. “I’m sorry,” the Boston Celtics star said. And with that, Irving made clear that he regrets publicly saying that the Earth is flat. Speaking Monday at the Forbes Under 30 summit in Boston, the flat-Earth topic that Irving inserted himself into last year was discussed — and the All-Star guard said he didn’t realize the effect that his claim would have once it went public. “To all the science teachers, everybody coming up to me like, ‘You know I’ve got to reteach my whole curriculum?’ I’m sorry,” Irving said, as the room attending his session laughed. “I apologize. I apologize.”

Is there a conspiracy theory dumber than flat earth? Apart from the fringe shit that lone wackos believe in (Time Cube, etc), I can't think of a more idiotic thing that has actually managed to catch on.

I saw a woman on Facebook the other day claim that her kid was hit by a car because the heavy metals in a vaccine she'd received earlier that week had caused the car to magnetise towards her, so yes - absolutely.

You'd think that little sally would have trouble putting down the metal spoon at breakfast that morning, let alone every other metal object that exists in day to day life. It's a shock they dont get crushed by the refrigerator everytime they go for a snack.

I found the post. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/b831287c-5966-4283-952a-419d87e85a06/image.png

I thought the Lizardmen was just a meme. You're telling me its a real thing people believe in? Fucking hell.

It's both, really, as the majority just find it absurd, but there are a statistically appreciable number who take it as fact. Honestly, I struggle to sort satire from reality on this subject anymore, what with QAnon, etc.

The problem is that Social Media has caused dumb conspiracy shit to amass like wildfire. Back in the day if you we’re getting invested you’d just got shot down, and told to stop being a dumbass. To which then you either socialize and realize your idiocy or become the crazy look of the town. Now if you’re dumb and start going deep into conspiracy theories you have millions of people backing you up. So you know it must be true, and that the Normies are just mindless sheep.

Wasn't the gay frogs thing vaguely based in reality though? Alex Jones is a screwcase and obviously worded it poorly, but I recall reading an article that was talking about how urbanization and estrogenic waste (phytoestrogens, endocrine blockers, birth control) is causing frogs in environments close to urban centers to be a majority female, or somewhere between due to how frogs can flipflop.

I suppose that makes sense, but the conspiracy side is more what I was talking about. As in, the idea that the government's intentionally making frogs gay for some nefarious reason.

One thing I always ask people who subscribe to these bogus theories is "Why?". They almost never reply. Why would the government hide the fact that the Earth is flat. Why would governments actively fund vaccines if they supposedly made us weaker? Wouldn't the government attempt to make us stronger so that we could fight wars or something? These conspirators are so caught up in their theories that they've never stopped to asked WHY these things would be hidden from the public.

I know that most flat earth people believe the government is trying to pretend the Earth is a sphere because they hate religion and want to quell it. I've always found this bizarre due to how the Earth being spherical doesn't shake anybody's faith, but it's what they believe. They'd argue that vaccines are funded to make us weaker to make us docile and easier to control. They argue that 9/11 was orchestrated by the government so there'd be pretext for war in Iraq. Their "theories" on the motivations are ridiculous but they start with the conclusion and work their way back, so it's not surprising.

This surely can't be anything but satire. Kid gets killed by drunk driver. Must be magnets and vaccines.

https://youtu.be/15HTd4Um1m4?t=15

No, flat earth is the dumbest. At least the other ones have some kind of grand consequence if they did turn out to be true. JFK, 9/11, fucking vaccines, if all of those did turn out to be true, there'd be some major shifts happening. There are no bigger consequences to the Earth being flat, which imo makes it the dumbest.

Really worrying how something well documented and proven can be easily acknowledged by those people due to ignorance. I sometimes wonder if they really think Earth is flat or they just want to think that.

My favorite is Mandela Effect. There is a such colossal jump in line of thinking. "Hmm, weird. Me and bunch of my friends remember that this specific children book was spelled with a different letter before. Hmm what could be the reason, maybe I'm just misremembering?.. No, wait, I know what's happening! It's PARALLEL UNIVERSES COLLIDING!!!" Imagine an event of such insane cosmic scale happening - and the only outcome is that there is different word now in the name of that one Sarah Jessica Parker movie.

I just don't even know anymore. There are so many crazy conspiracies that I don't know how much credit to give humanity on the satire front.

IMO the conspiracies involving government control are way dumber than flat earth. Shit like Chemtrails for instance https://youtu.be/YsdeAF_Prfo