Government officials are publicly admitting they “knew about aliens but lied”? Techbros are jacking themselves to death about how aliens superior intelligence has let them trap us somehow? Apparently the government has new terminology for these space aliens that are supposed to exist? How much of this is real? Or is it mainly just bullshit?

  • bumpusoot [any]@hexbear.net
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    41 minutes ago

    It’s not real. Honestly it’s never real, and companies keep pretending it is because it gets views. So stop believing this shit.

    Even when it’s so real that world leaders are doing press conferences about it, you should still be at least somewhat skeptical.

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    7 hours ago

    Everytime the US govt is paranoid about a perceived technology deficit with another country or they want to justify crazy defense spending they bring out this lame mule. It’s not for the believers. It’s for “smart people” with “superior” reasoning skills to see through the story. Only “smart people” will recognize we need to spend more on the MIC to counter this new threat that defies scientific consensus.

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    It’s riding on the back of Lue Elizondo, the former US Torture Czar and a CI operative who is urging immunity for those who broke the law for the sake of “national security.”

    All of the big names in the past few years have had a connection to the US military and/or intelligence, and none of them have suffered any consequences. Most all of them are closely tied to Lue and each other.

    Lue got caught trying to fake a UFO sighting in his backyard, and after years on the podcast circuit he just released a book a few weeks ago - a book which is ghost-written and which basically rehashes decades of UFO rumors in a new package. Since the release his appearances have been on overdrive which is partly why so many people are talking about it right now. Mellon (an operative from the banking family who is also interested in UFOs) is close to him and wrote the forward which calls on Great Man Theory to describe Lue lmao

    US Congress was split on legislation that was supposed to shine a light on what is going on behind their backs, and it had proposed amendments: The Dems wanted to give it teeth, while the Reps wanted to declaw it (while claiming the opposite). iirc it just failed for the second year in a row, but I might be getting my bills confused. Anyway, Lue is a chud who is very comfortable in right-wing spaces - he’s been on JRE multiple times for example. I don’t recall him speaking out against the legislative shenanigans.

    I think there actually is something behind all of this - alien or not - but the public is clearly getting a drip feed to steer them toward a particular narrative and interpretation. Most of which is probably bullshit. Lue and friends have made it pretty clear that there’s a limited hangout going on, but insist that it’s for our own good. They are very US-centric and fear-monger about adversaries frequently.

    I’m still interested in UFOs - they have a long and strange history across the globe - but I don’t trust any of the recent names in the space whatsoever. Any truth they might speak is going to be diluted with propaganda. They could actually be ushering in some sort of disclosure or recognition but it won’t make me think any more highly of them. I worry about how successful they’ve been at leading a growing discussion on the topic even though I’ve wanted more awareness on it for many years.

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    It’s bullshit, this shit has happened multiple times in my life. The 90’s was filled with ‘totally legit’ claims of aliens with a whole industry built around grifting area 51.

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    Pretty sure it’s all bullshit. I’ll believe it when someone demonstrates conclusive proof. This is one of those “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”. The amount of energy and resources someone would need to fly interstellar distances is absurd. Unless someone can show me a space ship it’s not worth my time.

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      Too much sci-fi media has poisoned people’s brains. You’re absolutely correct about how much energy it would require to leave a solar system, then travel to another. Traveling at the speed of light would still take several years to go to our nearest neighbor. And the closer you get to the speed of light, the more energy you need to go forward as your mass increases.

      If you fired a speck of dust at the speed of light at something, it would hit with more force than a nuclear bomb. So imagine how much force is required to propel a huge ass ship.

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      Flying all the way across space just to do a few whirls in the sky above the upright ape meatsacks like one of us riding a motorcycle from Spain to Japan to pop a wheelie in front of a beetle and then peace out✌️

  • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    What “new” shit are you talking about because literally every year since 2015 they talk about the exact same shit like it’s new but oh no it’s just luiz elizondo and the FLIR tic tac video, AGAIN