![]() ![]() He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. ![]() Mingling, I met nice truthers with name tags reading Dan The Water Man, Flat Earth Dude and Earth is Seriously Flat, and paranoid ones, like a guy called Adam who accused Dan The Water Man of being a CIA agent who invited me to the event to make them all look crazy.On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket. People were bumping to flat earth covers of popular songs, like DelanoTV’s Weeknd diss parody “ The Earth is Flat” and the flat earth cover of Adele’s “Hello,” which features lyrics like ““Hello from the inside/ I’m here to tell you NASA lies.” Tents, tables with food, beer-it could’ve almost passed for a regular tailgate if it weren’t for the fact that everyone was wearing lab coats and had duct tape over their selfie cameras. Yikes.īefore going to the event, I’d imagined it hovering somewhere between Milan and MAGA, but when looking at the parking lot where the roughly 50 truthers were chilling, it became clear that this “fashion show” was really just an excuse to gather and talk about flat earth. He also seemed very comfortable using the word “Holohoax” to refer to the Holocaust in my presence. Peep the Streetwear Addicts Instagram-every other post is a Zionist conspiracy meme. I don’t think Fisher realized that I’m Jewish, because he kept referencing the different ways Jews are ruining the world. ![]() His account has over 7,000 followers, but, he said, it used to have 25,000 before it was shut down by the Jewish Defense League. A Navy veteran and one-time budtender, Fisher said that, five years ago, he was one of the first Instagram accounts to start posting about flat earth. He’s bald, a little round, and was wearing camo cargo shorts-how I imagine former cast members from MTV’s The Challenge look today. I first encountered Fisher while he was moving garment rails to make space for the catwalk. Look around the few racks of clothing and you are just as likely to find a Nike shirt as you are one that says “flat earth.” Inside there’s a whole wall of Dope socks, two Mac Dre bobbleheads and a bunch of flat earth paraphernalia Fisher got from Ebay. ![]() Its neighbors are a nail salon and a bounty hunter. Streetwear Addicts is a small space in a strip mall that owner Steven Fisher has operated for four years. ![]()
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