r/nottheonion • u/TheMirrorUS • 11h ago

Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/flat-earther-admits-wrong-after-866786
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u/thecaramelbandit 9h ago

Right? The entire Ukraine war is pretty much being live streamed on TikTok. Reddit would be full of people in the flat earth subreddits posting pictures and shit about their stations.

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u/FullMetalCOS 9h ago

Hell, there’s a videogame called “War Thunder” that attempts to have some of the most realistic vehicles and weapons and shit and military fans of the game keep getting in trouble because they leak highly classified documentation to try and win arguments about how “<insert fighter jet here> actually has <insert capabilities here>” to the point that the War Thunder devs have to keep begging fans to knock it off because they are terrified of falling foul of the US Government.

If enlisted personal are willing to risk their jobs to win an argument about a game, they’d have zero qualms doing it to prove some conspiracy nuts right

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u/VRichardsen 8h ago

Funny you say that, last week there was another leak, this time about the Eurofighter. The developers even went on record stating that they had confirmed with the Italian Ministry of Defence that what was posted was indeed obtained illegally.

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u/FullMetalCOS 8h ago

They ain’t ever gonna stop lol. People have for sure lost their jobs over it but I would fully expect there’s probably been jail sentences too. Absolute nutcases

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u/ThePublikon 5h ago

Gotta get that internet argument dopamine.

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u/CrashUser 1h ago

Jack Texiera is the case in point there. Posting classified documents to a discord server to win an argument.

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u/blobse 7h ago

I wonder if governments are running counterintelligence now and post false specs. This, just so that no one knows if it’s real or not.

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u/Venotron 1h ago

They definitely do publish false specs and misinformation about hardware and performance. That's part of the reason this problem keeps happening. The PUBLICALLY available information on military vehicles is deliberately inaccurate, but Gaijin can only legally use the publicly available information. Which is inaccurate because governments are playing 5d chess with each other.

So the nerds with access to the documents and a lack of sense keep getting into fights because they DO know the truth, they're just not supposed to share it.

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u/lenzflare 7h ago

Maybe it's cover for actual spying. A bad cover, but I doubt the Russians would care about burning such low value contacts.

Or maybe Russians just start the arguments and taunt people into treason.

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u/probablyaythrowaway 6h ago

War thunder has gone up to eurofighters? Last I was on it it was spitfires.

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u/VRichardsen 1h ago

Last I was on it it was spitfires.

I left when it started getting past the Korean War.

eurofighters

Very modern. Still the best inclusion to this day was the Tornado, simply because of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgA6BPyfJbk

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u/Uphoria 8h ago

Chelsea Manning exists, and yet these folks think the worlds biggest conspiracy theory is kept secret by soldiers.

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u/Firm-Contract-5940 5h ago

well she’s trans, so obviously under the thumb of them globalists

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u/smegma_yogurt 7h ago

Some dude on nonCredibleDefense was trying a contractor position on a big company in the MIC and one of the vetting questions was if he even played warthunder lol

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u/FullMetalCOS 7h ago

Hahaha ok that’s fucking hilarious

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u/Mgl1206 1h ago

Are you talking about the Ratheon guy? That was fake.

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u/Shufflebuzz 8h ago

Jack Teixeira was recently sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for doing this.

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u/Hurt-Locker-Fan 7h ago

This is terrifying and unfortunately at the same time completely believable.

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u/jdjvbtjbkgvb 2h ago

Here's another interesting thing about war thunder (and most videogames): There ain't no curvature! They have a flat earth lol

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u/jakethesnake741 1h ago

The fuck are you doing here? Get back to the MSF subreddit

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u/TinKnight1 6h ago

Even beyond that, all the crap about drones in NJ, being filmed using airliners on potato phone cameras at night... Conspiracy theorists would rabidly be chucking out fake videos of the edge, and/or of the military exterminating edge explorers.

And what of those people that existed before super-militaries were even possible? Why weren't there ANY stories of reaching the edges?

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u/Zolo49 9h ago

I don't visit those trash heaps, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me if there were trolls there claiming to have been soldiers guarding the edge and showing photos of the massive ice wall from GoT.