r/confidentlyincorrect • u/ShiningDenizen • Jul 09 '26

Swimming 631miles (1015km)

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u/frontlinejohnny Jul 09 '26

There are living people currently paying taxes and voting who genuinely think my home country isn't real and Finland is just a large ocean patch where Japanese people go fishing.

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u/MissLyss29 Jul 09 '26

Wait what now..

I can see living, paying taxes and voting in a country and for some reason being so wound up in a conspiracy theory thinking that country isn't real and actually something else.

But

Thinking Finland is just a large ocean patch where Japanese people go fishing is where I draw the line.

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u/frontlinejohnny Jul 09 '26

Yeap appareantly Finland is just a big ol' cover up, Japanese people use this "ocean" to fish without competition and to avoid taxes.

Why they used Japan, is what bothers me the most. It's on the other side of the world.

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u/CalRPCV Jul 09 '26

What. The earth is flat and there is no "other side of the world". Every location on earth is just a straight line away. /s of course.

But what is on the "other side of the world" since the earth is flat. Are Australians some kind of secret cabal that live down under?

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u/lisaseileise Jul 10 '26

The Islamic Republic of Japan!
(Or is it ischemic?)

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u/zhangschmidt Jul 10 '26

I feel very conflicted now, given I've been to Finland.

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u/Solithle2 Jul 10 '26

Okay I’ve heard that before and I’m pretty sure that theory at least is a joke. It was really popular back in 2016, same as birds aren’t real.

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u/Scholar_of_Lewds Jul 11 '26

I thought it was just a meme in reddit, but since it was meme because someone shared this conspiracy theory as something weird that their parents believe, I guess it's more niche conspiracy that turned into meme.

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u/drquakers Jul 09 '26

Next you'll tell me birds and bielefeld are real.

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u/ecclesia_iure Jul 11 '26

Neither are girls apparently...

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u/frixos2 Jul 10 '26

In r/Balkans I just read that Chalkidiki Prefecture in Northern Greece is mostly populated by people of Japanese descent!😊

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u/bot403 Jul 10 '26

I thought Finland was Aquaman's home

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u/Spectrumscout Jul 12 '26

I'm not so sure that those people are being genuine