'Mad' Mike Hughes, flat-Earth theorist, dies in rocket mishap

Re:'Mad' Mike Hughes, flat-Earth theorist, dies in rocket mi... by 3pt14159 on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:29AM (#22404798)

Ask questions and don't make it personal. It's annoying and the answers are rubbish, but it's the only way to break these people out of their shell.

> The earth is flat? Why do people in Japan see the moon and a dark sky while I see the sun?

With enough of these types of questions that don't have sensible answers you may be able to get the person into a "maybe this is all bullshit" mindset. It's hard though. Especially with global warming skeptics.

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Re:'Mad' Mike Hughes, flat-Earth theorist, dies in rocket mi... by keymone on Monday February 24, 2020 @10:34AM (#22404847)

“Because light doesn’t travel forever”

Every sensible line of questions will inevitably hit this wall of incomprehensible undebunkable “understanding” of the world.

It’s better to dig into their understanding of what is a conspiracy and how do they determine where in the conspiracy chain they should stop and why. (Flat Earth conspiracy, flat earth conspiracy conspiracy and so on)

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