re: Flat-Earthers: Trolls or Idiots?

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Trolls are idiots.

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Lots of times, yes. Probably most.

There are some, though, that serve a purpose of highlighting things like hypocrisy, absolutism, and simple logic failures of the targets.

This could be one. It’s a solid platform for amateur scientists to get all lathered up about something without having the skills and data to actually prove the facts.

Think of an analogy in the Gender Wars. Clearly, there is a tiny segment of the population with messed up chromosomes and/or genitals. Then, there are people with legit gender dysphoria, a condition that, until it became unfashionable, was considered a mental illness. Rather than concede that these aberrations are indeed aberrations, you now have an entire culture bending over backwards to pretend that these are not, in fact, aberrations or a mental illness. It then snowballs.

Now, one is clearly a distortion of provable facts, and the other is a hodge lodge of “muh feelings”. In either case, it’s beneficial to see who can actually argue with any sort of science behind their emotions.