Exactly. Anyone with concerns about what is happening, lump them in with flat earthers and then make fun of them.
Then when people encounter someone opposed to carbon taxes in real life they think you are a flat earther and try to make fun of you for that silly belief.
This reminds me of cognitive infiltration.
They make the conspiracy theory guy so over the top stupid that it reinforces the view that all conspiracy theorists are similarly stupid.
Explain to me how the Earth is round then?!
Exactly. Anyone with concerns about what is happening, lump them in with flat earthers and then make fun of them.
Then when people encounter someone opposed to carbon taxes in real life they think you are a flat earther and try to make fun of you for that silly belief.