• dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    17 days ago

    this feels like a potentially sincere attempt to recruit people into an anti-science conspiracy movement - this doesn’t really feel different than the kind of reasoning you see with moon landing denialists or flat earthers.

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      17 days ago

      Nah. I remember back in high-school there were some who “disproved” the 3rd law of motion by pushing a door closed and saying that they didn’t go backwards.
      I didn’t care to engage them in debate.

    • Syndication@lemmy.today
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      17 days ago

      Eh I wouldn’t take it too seriously, I’m pretty sure it’s a play on the whole running joke of “saying something ridiculous, then end it with ‘You guys don’t seriously believe this right?!?’” type of thing. I’ve seen many of these greentexts that used that format recently.

      It’s kinda funny to me because it loosely reminds me of same logic as those old rage comic “troll physics” memes like these: