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My uncle in Reno swears the moon landing was faked, and his reasoning almost got me
He pulled out a 3 ring binder at Thanksgiving with 40 pages of stuff about shadows and said one thing about the flag that honestly made me pause for a second. Then I remembered he also thinks his neighbor is stealing his wifi through the thermostat, so where do you all draw the line between a fun debate and someone who is too far gone?
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fiona_west2137m ago
Oh man, the thermostat wifi thing is your answer right there. Once someone starts connecting totally unrelated stuff into one big plot, the debate is over and you just nod and change the subject. Here's my line: if they can point to one specific thing and say "explain this," that's a fun talk. When it turns into a whole binder tying everything together, that's a sign they've gone past debating into believing. The flag thing gets tons of people because it looks like it's waving when there's no wind, but the simple answer is the astronaut was twisting the pole to get it in the ground and it stayed wrinkled from the trip. I'd keep Thanksgiving peace by asking him about Reno or his neighbor's thermostat instead, and save the moon stuff for people who can drop it when the facts come out.
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