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by dangus 197 days ago
Really isn’t going to be an interesting watch.

People in the military saying this stuff doesn’t really change anything. People in the military are just a cross-section of the other morons that make up this country.

Over 40% of Americans believe that some UFOs have been alien spacecraft according to Gallup.

In other words, 40% of Americans are fucking morons. [1]

How many people believe that the virgin Mary magically got pregnant without having sex? And that’s something we know is scientifically impossible, even more so than the wildly improbable phenomenon of an alien spacecraft visiting us.

A whole bunch of people in the military believe the Virgin Mary was a virgin, too.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/350096/americans-believe-ufos.a...

[1] This 30-40% number seems to also line up with a host of dumbass political opinions like being pro-authoritarianism. At any given point, around 30% of people in the world seem to be dumb as fuck.

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As someone formerly a member of the the Center for Inquiry and still a believer in its mission, I understand what you're saying.

I would still point you to, there is something to this. And theres not been any whistleblower mention of anything "visiting." What they report aligns with the most probable scenario that the things we're seeing are automated Von Neumann probes, most likely sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and they've probably been here a long time.