▲ 1059 ▼ Water mountains (lemmy.sdf.org) submitted 3 years ago* by seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org to c/memes@lemmy.ml 95 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] KrankyKong@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 years ago (6 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 12 child comments replies: [–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) I actually had a guy come into a store I used to work in, he came around closing.. guy would not leave until I heard his salespitch about the flat earth... A week later I learned he called corporate who demanded I be fired over refusing to hear him out. Manager told me he had no choice, fire me or get fired and have the replacement fire me. It worked out though, Travis eventually left and the new manager couldn't get anyone to stay... when he found my old file and how long I stayed he offered my job back. I had found something closer, easier, and higher paying so I just laughed the offer off. I love my new gig permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 31 points 3 years ago So your manager, in a retail store, that presumably exclusively sold non-flat-earth items, caved to a whack-job who wanted you to be fired because you wouldn’t waste your productive work time listening to his whack-job bullshit (closing is almost always more than turning the lights off and locking up), and actually fired you? Sounds like the manager did you a favor. He did have a choice… standing up for his employees agains unreasonable nonsense like that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 10 points 3 years ago Online, yeah I'd say about 2/3s of them are, but the shit they're saying usually originates from actual Flat Earther content. permalink fedilink source parent [–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org [S] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are. What makes you think so? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago "Ball earthists". permalink fedilink source parent [–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) I knew someone who like to use flat Earthism to illustrate that there's little point in debating someone who has no interest in being persuaded. He'd basically state the Earth is flat and use every rhetorical trick in the book to defend his position, exhaust his opponent, and then say, "Could you imagine how frustrated you'd be if I actually believed any of that?" He eventually got his DDS of all things, but I thought he'd make a good lawyer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 3 years ago* You can debate someone into changing their mind but it's more like water eroding a stone than any cathartic moment you'd hope for. It's still worthwhile especially when you consider an audience that's not inhibited by being 'under attack' permalink fedilink source parent [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago It's actually religious for some of them. They take the whole biblical "firmament" idea literally. permalink fedilink source parent [–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 6 points 3 years ago* When you get deeper, 90% of the time it's just one of a dozen "facts" they've adopted to service the core belief that jews are responsible for [effects of capitalism] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 23 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child) I actually had a guy come into a store I used to work in, he came around closing.. guy would not leave until I heard his salespitch about the flat earth... A week later I learned he called corporate who demanded I be fired over refusing to hear him out. Manager told me he had no choice, fire me or get fired and have the replacement fire me. It worked out though, Travis eventually left and the new manager couldn't get anyone to stay... when he found my old file and how long I stayed he offered my job back. I had found something closer, easier, and higher paying so I just laughed the offer off. I love my new gig permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 31 points 3 years ago So your manager, in a retail store, that presumably exclusively sold non-flat-earth items, caved to a whack-job who wanted you to be fired because you wouldn’t waste your productive work time listening to his whack-job bullshit (closing is almost always more than turning the lights off and locking up), and actually fired you? Sounds like the manager did you a favor. He did have a choice… standing up for his employees agains unreasonable nonsense like that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zigmus64@lemmy.world 31 points 3 years ago So your manager, in a retail store, that presumably exclusively sold non-flat-earth items, caved to a whack-job who wanted you to be fired because you wouldn’t waste your productive work time listening to his whack-job bullshit (closing is almost always more than turning the lights off and locking up), and actually fired you? Sounds like the manager did you a favor. He did have a choice… standing up for his employees agains unreasonable nonsense like that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SunriseParabellum@hexbear.net 10 points 3 years ago Online, yeah I'd say about 2/3s of them are, but the shit they're saying usually originates from actual Flat Earther content. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org [S] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child) They’re trolling though. I reckon the vast majority of flat earthers are. What makes you think so? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 3 years ago "Ball earthists". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) I knew someone who like to use flat Earthism to illustrate that there's little point in debating someone who has no interest in being persuaded. He'd basically state the Earth is flat and use every rhetorical trick in the book to defend his position, exhaust his opponent, and then say, "Could you imagine how frustrated you'd be if I actually believed any of that?" He eventually got his DDS of all things, but I thought he'd make a good lawyer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 3 years ago* You can debate someone into changing their mind but it's more like water eroding a stone than any cathartic moment you'd hope for. It's still worthwhile especially when you consider an audience that's not inhibited by being 'under attack' permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 6 points 3 years ago* You can debate someone into changing their mind but it's more like water eroding a stone than any cathartic moment you'd hope for. It's still worthwhile especially when you consider an audience that's not inhibited by being 'under attack' permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 3 years ago It's actually religious for some of them. They take the whole biblical "firmament" idea literally. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] alcoholicorn@hexbear.net 6 points 3 years ago* When you get deeper, 90% of the time it's just one of a dozen "facts" they've adopted to service the core belief that jews are responsible for [effects of capitalism] permalink fedilink source parent
