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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

This a version of the general right-wing paranoia. They do not seem to believe that things "just happen," in this case things like Adam Smith's "invisible hand." There must be some "central committee" somewhere, wringing their hands in fiendish glee as they plot to flood the shelves of stores and posters of advertising with GLOBES. It can't just be markets, reflecting the fact that we live on a globe and it is important to us. It can't be the will of the people ensuring abortion rights in Ohio, it must be a cabal of demons. Everything is a PLOT.

All of a sudden I think I know how a kindergarten teacher feels after a bad day.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

"Why (WHAH?) are we seeing globes everywhere?"

Up in Oregon, we call them "tits."

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

You've GOT to listen to the videos in the original twang (with respect, I have one too). At one point in the older one she points at some bric-a-brac behind her and says, "this would be a globe if I were a normal person." Yep.

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1729173152922759378

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Queroloustwo's avatar

Someone tell the London HUA they need to re name this place. https://londonhuawiki.wpi.edu/index.php/The_Globe_Theater

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GEM's avatar

Sweater midriffs! WTH!? I just can't with that.

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Mark Lungo's avatar

I'm trying to follow the logic:

* Kandiss says that many stores sell globes.

* The person she 's talking to notices that this is indeed true.

* Therefore, that person assumes that Kandiss' entire argument must also be true.

* Step 5: profit!

SMH. No wonder there are Republicans.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Is Kandiss Taylor a religious person? Does she believe in the Great A'Tuan? If not, why not?

Enquiring minds want to know.

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

I keep getting Kandiss Taylor confused with Katniss Everdene. I don't know why. I doubt Ms. Taylor would survive the first five minutes of the hunger games. And Katniss probably does believe the world is roughly globular.

Hey ... that is not a recent idea, dopey. Every prince in Europe had a globe of the world (short on detail and accuracy, but a globe) in his royal library before Columbus set out to find a way to Asia by sailing west. Generations of fifth grade teachers told their classes that Columbus was mocked and reckoned crazy because he thought the world was round, but he wasn't, every educated person already knew it. So did various savvy ancient Greeks. Aristotle, Eratosthenes, I forget who else - but Ms. Taylor would probably stamp her foot and say, "Ignorant heathens! They don't count!"

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Revenant's avatar

Thanks a bunch Al Gore for building the means for unhinged nutters like Ms. Taylor to decompensate spectacularly out in front of everybody and gather up like out-of-their-minded followers. After all, what has Reality ever done for us, lately?

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Alpaca Suitcase's avatar

Lol my son has one of those Nordstrom Rack NASA shirts. Also a globe. OMG they've gotten to him!

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Phried Ω's avatar

Globular earth is worth billions a month, but just how lucrative is the flat earth game and how do I break in to the market?

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DemoCat's avatar

Ever wonder why Earth is always represented as a globe? And why is pizza flat? They won’t let you sell globe shaped pizza, because agenda.

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Nick Rogers's avatar

Have you ever seen Earth and Pizza in the same room? I know I haven’t. They can’t fool me! . . . I need to lie down now.

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Mike Krumrei's avatar

My chief complaints about conspiracy theories are that they are often super lazy about plot holes and have trouble in the third act.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

“Jesus Guns Babies”

geesh! that Jesus guy seems kind of rude.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

The babies started it.

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gratuitous's avatar

Can't we just shoot this woman into space? You know, to see for herself?

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