It would take a lot for most parents to say that they don’t care what their child has to offer anymore. We hope the parents reading this can’t imagine what their child could do to make them use words that strong, and to anyone reading this who has heard that from their own parents, we hope you have escaped from their expectations and are moving past them. For this parent, the last straw had to do with a controversy that has experienced a disturbing rise in publicity in the last few years, and it’s probably a familiar picture to anyone who’s seen family members fall victim to conspiracy theories.
A screenshot shows a rant that a flat-Earther dad posted on Twitter after his son sent him a sarcastic comment and a link to an article about an Antarctic expedition.
A flat-Earther dad vented about this conflict with his son
The message concerned an Antarctic expedition
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Antarctica, for those who aren’t up on the lore, is a contentious topic to flat Earth theorists because in their most widespread model of the world, it is depicted as a ring around the edge of the circular flat Earth. That’s why the ocean doesn’t spill off the edge… obviously? There are various explanations as to why it cannot be approached and investigated, including armed NASA guards, says a journalist who attended a conference to get to the bottom of how theorists justify themselves.
Under this model, going from one edge of it to another, which two explorers famously did on skis at the end of 2018 (though they crossed a comparatively narrow part of the continent to avoid its dizzying ice plateau, which surpasses altitudes of 4,000 meters or 13,000 feet) would not be possible.
Commenters can’t believe there’s “logic” like this out there
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