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Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah by mothballed on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @08:26PM (#45206083)
Anything I say on the internet, someone will always have a compelling but sometimes wrong argument as to why im wrong. If you listen to them for confirmation you'd never be able to do anything, and im not exaggerating. I could probably say the earth is round here on HN and some astrophysics PhD would tell me I failed to consider the 4th dimension or something and it's actually unknown if we can call it round.

Where are these people going that they just see encouragement without resistance?

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Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah by xboxnolifes on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:42PM (#45207543)
Maybe not only encouragement, but it's certainly easier to quickly label any opposition as bots/trolls/idiots/woke/boomer/racist/commie/nazi/etc, ignore them, and move on online. Someone's single sentence to you wasn't a perfect pattern match for your acceptable criteria? No need to interact with them, just ignore them and move on. Better yet, get a quick swipe in on them to score some points with your in-group.
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Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah by dylan604 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:04PM (#45206840)
Being right all the time on the internet is such a curse. Those damned learned people with PhDs thinking they know things going up against such an obviously more intelligent person. They should have their degrees revoked!
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Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah by chipsrafferty on Thursday September 11, 2025 @03:15AM (#45208744)
It's not perfectly spherical, actually.
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Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah by pvaldes on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:43AM (#45209613)
The shape of the earth depends on your speed

If you walk slow the earth looks like a plane

If you go faster the earth looks like a sphere

If you travel really fast the earth looks like a dot. A tiny blue one.

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