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An handsome flat earther action figure next to a dweeby looking “glober” action figure.
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Ah yes, the always authoritative "My side looks great, you're a bunch of neeeerds!" argument.
Clearly, Robert Scott Melton is a wise person who can be trusted. Though I am thinking it's some shitty AI art, the Flerf's feet are cut off but the tripod goes through the "plastic edge," the Glober's feet and REALLY fake looking helmet poke through too. And all the stickers on him look very crudely photoshopped on.
How's this for a slogan for this toy line. "Flat Earthers, we don't have the ability to produce real toys, of course we can't produce a real model of what we believe"
Total argumentum ex “I have portrayed myself as the Chad and you as the soyjack”.
There have been a few flerf experiments which they claimed “proved” that the world is flat, but actually only provided evidence that the world is bigger than the official values - and only if you ignore atmospheric refraction, which they did. Every other attempt was dismissed due to some sort of “equipment issues”.
I’ll tell you who’s an absolute Gigachad:
Dr. Buzz Aldrin.
As if he wearing the first timepiece - an Omega Speedmaster - on the Moon, and meeting Optimus Prime didn’t make him Awesome enough.
What he saw before & after his Apollo 11 astronaut colleague Neil Armstrong’s One Small Step For Man.
So, the vibes I get:
Flat Earth Man is the villain - or maybe just the secondary human antagonist? - of a children's movie, a corrupt land developer who wants to raze a beloved if rundown and unprofitable local observatory and astronomy communications facility to build some ugly mall or something. While he may surround himself with the tools of the trade, the trappings of expertise and the costume of business sophistication, he is just an igonrant fratbro jock nepo baby - after all, there are no flat earth surveyors.
Glober is the lovable dork running the observatory and one of the heroes' adult allies. In college, Flat Earth Man was his bully and sabotaged Glober so he was unable to join NASA, leading to his unappreciated job. He may be the flawed but good-natured single father of one of the protagonists, struggling with the loss of his wife.
In the end, Flat Earth Man is foiled and disgraced, the observatory is revitalised, Glober gets character development, gets respect - possibly graciously rejecting an offer of a high-ranking NASA job after thwarting an alien invasion, having come to truly appreciate his position as a humble local science communicator - and gets the single mom.
Ah, yes, flat earthers, the group so confident in their beliefs that, when they were offered a free trip to Antarctica in order to conduct an experiment absolutely confirming or denying the existence of a flat Earth, the vast majority chickened out and refused to go.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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