Stories about Republican conspiracy nuts are almost as common as mass shootings.
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And we mustn't overlook Kandiss Taylor :
Kandiss Taylor, a recently elected GOP District Chair in Georgia, would like to know why Big Globe won’t stop shoving round-Earth propaganda down our throats.
In an interview with David Weiss (AKA “Flat Earth Dave”) and Matt Long on her “Jesus, Guns, and Babies” podcast, Taylor and her guests discussed biblical “evidence” that the Earth is actually flat as a pancake. “The people that defend the globe don’t know anything about the globe,” said Weiss. “If they knew a tenth of what Matt and I know about the globe they would be Flat Earthers.”
“All the globes, everywhere” Taylor said later in the discussion. “I turn on the TV, there’s globes in the background ... Everywhere there’s globes. You see them all the time, it’s constant. My children will be like ‘Mama, globe, globe, globe, globe’ — they’re everywhere.”
“That’s what they do, to brainwash,” she added. “For me if it’s not a conspiracy. If it is real, why are you pushing so hard everywhere I go? Every store, you buy a globe, there’s globes everywhere. Every movie, every TV show, news media — why? More and more I’m like, it doesn’t make sense.”
I've written about Taylor before . Last year, when she was running in the Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia, she made a campaign promise to destroy an eccentric monument in the state known as the Georgia Guidestones , a group of engraved slabs whose recommendations, particularly about population ("Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature"), she linked to abortion and COVID vaccination -- and the devil.
Taylor lost the primary badly -- she received 3.7% of the vote, far behind incumbent governor Brian Kemp, who won 73.7% -- but then declined to concede. (The primary was "rigged," she insisted.) A couple of months later, an explosion destroyed one of the monument's slabs, and the rest were subsequently demolished.
The Trump video and the Cardoza-Moore, Salinas, and Taylor stories were all published within the past 36 hours. Stories about Republican conspiracy nuts are almost as common as mass shootings.
Even people who don't follow politics closely associate Republicans with pro-gun activism, tax cuts for the rich, resistance to climate-change mitigation, and opposition to abortion and LGBTQ rights. Why isn't it common knowledge that Republicans are extremely susceptible to insane conspiracy theories? Why, even after the rise of QAnon, isn't the GOP seen as the wackjob party?
The Democratic Party and the media need to do a better job of telling Americans who Republicans really are. They're not traditionalists. They're lunatics.
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I listened to her give her argument for flat earth.
She sounds like an idiot.
How do such people gain a foothold in public life?
Now you can say no one has ever heard of her, but she recently won election to a Republican Party position in the state of Georgia.
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Its hard to know what type of percentage of Republicans and conservatives believe conspiracy theories, because the information and the expression of it is so diffuse. I would think at least half of MAGA type Republicans believe in one or more conspiracy theories related to politics or social issues. This is a major major problem in America today.
I have some questions for the flat earthers. First, what's on the other side? Second, how does gravity work? When you're on the other side do you fall up?
1: The other side ... duh.
2: It works just fine.
3: No, you spring down.
If you have any further questions consult Edwin Abbott's 'Flatland'.
How come Noah's ark never fell off the side...
There were 2 arks, one contained all the dinosaurs who in an mega-act of magasorous chivalry blocked the way.
Their sacrifice will forever be known as we hold up their bones in effigy.
Side B
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You either go upside down or down upside.
To quote something I heard many years ago: "There is no gravity, the Earth sucks!"
Most MAGA are barking mad red asshatters...
When I first read this article, I thought it had to be satire. Please, tell me it's satire!
Reminded me of the Grinch Instead of noise noise noise, it is globes globes globes...
I want her to volunteer to sail to the tip of the realm and snap a picture.
There is a video of this nut case talking with two other nutcases on a flat earth podcast. So it is real.
I do agree it sounds like The Onion though.
It's insane. Pathetic and insane.
She's using her kids as props. I feel sorry for them. Yes, babies, there are globes, and your mama is a dumbass.
If there is a mountain on one side of the plane, is there a valley on the other?
Ooh... Great question.
www.livescience.com /32111-how-far-away-is-the-horizon.html
How far away is the horizon?
Live Science Staff 2-2 minutes 9/12/2012
On a clear day, you can see for miles and miles and miles.
The old saying turns out to be just about true. For a six-foot (182.88 centimeters) tall person, the horizon is a little more than 3 miles (5 kilometers) away.
Geometry tells us that the distance of the horizon – i.e. the farthest point the eye can see before Earth curves out beneath our view – depends simply on the height of the observer. For example, if you stood atop Mount Everest (which is 29,029 feet, or 8,848 meters tall), the horizon would be about 230 miles (370 km) away.
Add the effect of refraction, which bends rays of light as they pass through the atmosphere, and the horizon is even farther. Cold weather increases the amount of atmospheric refraction , so in a particularly frosty location such as Antarctica people have been able to see hundreds of miles away.
Plus, since clouds hover above ground level, they can be seen to farther distances than features on Earth's surface.
But just as weather sometimes aids our view, it can also hinder it. Fog and scattered light can limit visibility to below what you could expect based on height. And of course, topography plays a role – even the best viewing conditions aren't much good if there's a big fat mountain in your way (though the view might be pleasing anyway).