They don’t need to. They’ve never been there, they’ll never go there, nothing really exists outside their fungal village, so your argument about non-existent fantasy places like the “South Pole” can be dismissed out of hand.
Ha! There is a lot of that as well. “Look up the Antarctica Treaty! You can’t get past the ice wall!” And they’ll absolutely deny the existence of the South Pole.
Recent history shows that denial of reality and acceptance of contradictory nonsense is a lot more common than we originally thought.
They’ve mostly given up on the “you can’t get past the ice wall” argument after the Final Experiment, where a bunch of flerfs went past the ice wall, no problem.
A lot of the leaders livelihoods depend on their idiot followers giving them money and views. That explains a lot.
Where are the guns Nathan?
If you know you know.
The Battleship New Jersey channel on YT had a recent video on the optical rangefinders which mentions the backup rangefinder on turret two has the horizon at about ten miles while the main rangefinder 100+ feet up is about eleven and a half, still only half the range of the main guns. What you’re hoping to find though, is the upper works on another hundred-foot high battleship which is about eighteen miles.