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🗓️ 23 November 2024
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Public prayer, talking violent civil war with their neighbors, tearing down what little support we give to the least among us- how does the modern Republican party claim to follow the teachings of Jesus?
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0:38.6 | earthers, conspiracy culture, and why people will believe anything by Kelly Wilde. This is from |
0:43.7 | the prologue. The summer before he fell from the sky, Mike Hughes was experimenting with |
0:48.9 | amateur jet propulsion. It was going badly. Problem again today, he texted me in August 2019. With the rocket or the weather, |
0:57.8 | I asked. Rocket. This was his second failure in two days, and I'd lost count of the times he'd run |
1:03.1 | into trouble with wind or parachutes or spare rocket parts that he'd purchase off Craigslist for |
1:07.8 | $325. Most people would have given up years earlier, maybe taken up a less lethal hobby. |
1:14.2 | I certainly thought he'd quit. |
1:16.1 | He's got to know, right? I remember asking my husband. |
1:19.0 | I was standing in our kitchen, texting Hughes with one hand and brandishing a spatula with the other, |
1:23.9 | making an omelet while trying to talk Hughes out of launching himself in a low orbit. |
1:28.9 | Deep down, he's got to know Earth is round. That's why he keeps having these rocket failures. |
1:32.7 | Earth is round, and he doesn't want to prove it. I liked Mike. He was an offbeat guy, but a good one. |
1:38.6 | We'd met the previous year at a conference for people who believe the Earth is flat. |
1:42.4 | If I was there as a journalist for the Daily Beast, |
1:44.8 | the news website where I reported on extremist movements and conspiracy theories. He was there to |
1:50.0 | drum up support for a self-maned rocket launch into the upper atmosphere, during which he would |
1:54.6 | decide the planet shaped for himself. He and I sat around talking trash and the particulars of rocket science. |
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