My cousin's 'moon landing proof' video ruined Thanksgiving dinner

He brought his laptop to the table in Phoenix and played a 47 minute video about studio lights in the shadows. I pointed out the flag moving was from the astronaut planting it, not wind, and he called me a 'sheep'. Has anyone else had a family holiday completely derailed by someone's pet conspiracy theory?

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gray_nguyen24mo ago

Switched the whole table to a dumb game last year when my uncle started on election fraud. Asked him to explain the rules of baseball using the same logic, like how do we know the pitcher really threw the ball if we only see it from one camera angle. It got so silly he dropped it and we just argued about sports instead. Sometimes you just have to refuse to play the game on their field.

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reese_patel4mo ago

My aunt got deep into flat earth stuff a few years back and tried to use a spirit level at the beach as proof. We ended up in a two hour talk about boat hulls and why you can't see Chicago from across the lake, which somehow morphed into her old recipes for potato salad. Redirecting to something totally boring they actually care about can sometimes work.

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