Same here. I learned about Flat Earthers, and assumed they were sarcastic, like Birds aren't Real. Took me two years of occasionally coming across their shit to realize they were serious. I was flabbergasted.
That's when I started to understand how stupid people can be. They can be all the stupid, and in unsettling numbers.
There's a subreddit called TrumpZone or something like that that I joined because of all the over the top bootlicking memes. It took a few days before I realized that the memes weren't being posted ironically and the members really were batshit crazy.
Me in 2015 reddit in the_Donald Subreddit thought they were shitposting sarcasm but no. It was a coordinated Russian intelligence campaign to fuck with retarded voters
Female... shitposter?
Poe's law
....did the friend know too?
Eyefish lense?
This is why i dont like or support shit posting. FAR TOO MANY people simply can not understand.
Flat-earth shitposters and actual flat-earthers may have their differences, but at least they can all agree that Apollo 11 was staged
This is why in many native cultures they stay away from being sarcastic. They've learned that it can be harmful to a society and they have the empathy to not want to make certain people who are out of the loop feel dumb
After reading the comments I'm glad I'm not alone
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