• @riodoro1
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    325 months ago

    In Europe we are sadly switching to that attitude too.

    • I Cast Fist
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      325 months ago

      USA gotta export its worse ideas abroad, after all. For-profit churches, flat earth, antivaxx

      • @anachronist@midwest.social
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        145 months ago

        USA gotta export its worse ideas abroad, after all. For-profit churches, flat earth, antivaxx

        More like someone in Europe realizing that they could import something from America and it’d catch on like an invasive plant species with no local ecological resistance.

      • @Serinus
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        55 months ago

        America didn’t invent any of that.

        • @marcos
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          55 months ago

          AFAIK, they did invent the modern flat-Earthism. Europe designed a straw-men to use as racist propaganda to say the people on their colonies are stupid, but it was a group at the US that said “yes, that’s us, and we are proud of it!”

          Antivax was invented everywhere, again and again, so,maybe they get a half point for it too.

          • @Serinus
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            45 months ago

            In the modern era, the pseudoscientific belief in a flat Earth originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham with the 1849 pamphlet Zetetic Astronomy. Lady Elizabeth Blount established the Universal Zetetic Society in 1893, which published journals. In 1956, Samuel Shenton set up the International Flat Earth Research Society, better known as the “Flat Earth Society” from Dover, England, as a direct descendant of the Universal Zetetic Society.