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The Flat Earthers Are Still With Us
narcberry writes "The BBC reports on a scientific community still holding to flat earth theories. From their article: 'Are there any genuine flat-earthers left? Surely in our era of space exploration — where satellites take photos of our blue and clearly globular planet from space, and robots send back info about soil and water from Mars — no one can seriously still believe that the Earth is flat? Wrong. Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the 'conspiracy' that the Earth is round.'"
Proof grasp of set-theoretic vocabulary aside, I'd rather think that the intersection is pretty close to the null set, seeing as how the flat earthers are a JOKE. And the joke is, pretty much, on you.
Republicans are NOT flat earthers or even ultra-religious-reborn-again-jebuses. They are just people exploiting the said groups for votes.
But how can we tell? There are a large number of seemingly normal but truly crazy people in the world. There are still people who believe the moon landings are a conspiracy and that Bush is a good person, etc. If someone is a truly dedicated Flat Earth Troll instead of just a truly dedicated Flat Earther, then it would be very tricky to figure out what they truly believed. Perhaps it doesn't matter.
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