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this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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Who profits from flat Earth? Do they sell exclusive models and atlas' or something?
No idea. Maybe donations, fees from conventions, ad revenue...?
Yes conventions, donations, revenue off YouTube videos
Trolls and people who sell merch and tickets to conventions. Same as alien believers
Aliens might be real, though, I just doubt all the supposed sightings that can be chalked up to mistaking one thing for another, or just gov't tech that we simply don't know about.
I view flat Earthers and people that believe in aliens as polar opposites. Flat Earthers think that the Earth is special and the center of the universe, with the heavens revolving around us. Alien believers see the universe as being incredibly vast and recognize that there's nothing inherently special about our world and that life almost certainly exists elsewhere.
There's a divide though in "alien believers".
I absolutely believe that other life exists in our vast universe. This is a pretty common opinion among scientific thinkers, space enthusiasts etc. that the universe is simply too huge for us to be all alone.
I also believe that due to that vastness, we'll never meet any aliens, unless we punch into Europa someday and there happen to be some fish down there.
UFO enthusiasts, on the other hand, have a position that is much less supported by science.
Instead they think theyre the special ones because they got abducted..?
Oh I didn't realize you were talking about people that believed they've been abducted. I thought you just meant people that believed that aliens existed in general.
I think they were referring to alien consipracists, who much like flat earthers believe in a global hoax committed by the elite (read: Jews and Liberals) to keep us misinformed on the true nature of our reality (for some reason). In that way they are very much cut from the same cloth.
The people who benefit from division, confusion, and inability to determine information from misinformation. Aka, the rich and powerful.
Sometimes I wish I didn't have morals or I'd be making shitloads off of these people.
Just pump out a bunch of AI voiced nonsense that has just enough 'evidence' to keep them going, tell them they're special because they know this and other people who aren't them are dumb because they don't know this and that the mainstream (insert industry here) is trying to silence you so you need them to donate to the fight.
Some of them are really raking it in through Patreon and sales of shoddy merchandise. That's how Alex Jones finances HIS deranged ramblings too.
Spouting bullshit while pretending that THEY are trying to stop you to get people to donate and buy your shit is unfortunately an extremely lucrative business for many.
Draws an audience of gullible morons. With that starting point you can do a number of things grift wise
Christofascists.