This happened to me, except it was an antivaxxer coworker, and he gave me his preventable disease right before I was supposed to be going on an international ski trip with friends for my birthday. I wanted to murder him :)
so this is where we’re at? fuck it? let them believe what they want? yeah, we’re fucked.
Man, a lot of comments on here are giving me reddit debate lord vibes. People talking about “the truth matters”, but the way a lot of them are saying, it sounds like they just want to ego boost and dunk on/bully someone that they perceive as inferior; which I suppose could also be called “asserting intellectual superiority”.
Chances are that any argument you use on them is something they’ve already heard, and the more you push and demean them the more defensive they will probably get, and the harder it will be to convince them. And even if you did manage to pressure and shame them into believing the earth is round, that won’t suddenly make them good critical thinkers.
The best way to convince these people of reality is to just say “You really believe that?” and “That sounds complicated” when they talk about it. Or you can laugh in a friendly way and say “Who told you that? They’re trying to trick you.”
These people respond to emotions, not facts. Just tell them someone is tricking them. They want to have friends and special knowledge.
I can totally understand not really wanting to engage with these stupid people but to suggest that it doesn’t matter that he believes that is disingenuous.
If he’s stupid enough to think the Earth is flat then he is stupid enough to do other things in his actual job wrong or in a dangerous manner.
It doesn’t matter in the context of effort/reward. He’s not gonna listen, you lose cohesiveness, and there’s just added stress overall.
And the job isn’t exactly rocket science you can literally have downes and still stock shelves. Flat earthers are more about desperately wanting to believe in something that places you in an exclusive ingroup, not about legitimately proving something.
Given that stupid and uninformed (or misinformed) people get a vote on topics that affect me, no. I’m not gonna let slide that people believe outright provably wrong bullshit. It’s still a problem.
Fortunately those people got to see Biden-the-corpse for themselves in the last debate. I thought it was hopeless too, but the tide is turning. Hopefully we can blast through the deep-state/election fraud wall in November.
You want to put Trump back in…? Did you forget how he ran things 2016-2020, plus Jan 6th, a literal (but horribly executed) coup attempt?
Given the rulings from the recent rulings from the Supreme Court, Trump will be emboldened to do whatever he wants “with immunity”. I just can’t wrap my head around how anyone thinks this is a good idea.
