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[–] [email protected] 38 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

Talk politics with your buddy. Sounds like they need it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (11 children)

He lives out in the sticks, I can't undo 15 years of skipping out on education (he's 38).

I do argue it in moderation, but I prefer to tackle critical thinking in general, and hope he learns to draw his own conclusions. He recently got over that the earth is not flat and that those conspiracies don't hold water. He's even starting to identify content on tiktok that is framed in a certain way.

Maybe we'll get there one day!

Edit: Tbf he's a mechanic, and a good one at that, so flat earth was an easy topic. He managed to understand we can't make oldschool carburators with flat earth physics, and he knows how those work. It's like if I tried to convince him displacement in an engine isn't real, just invented by big oil.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

God I would love to see a flat earther realize and admit they’ve been wrong this whole time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Imo that only feels good when it's someone who actively causes harm with their stupidy and they finally get justice. In this case I consider it to be more sad than anything else; it's a function of his upbringing, not who he is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Well I don’t want them to feel bad, I just want to see it so I know that it actually happens and my faith in humanity can be slightly restored.

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