• Grimy@lemmy.world
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    Given the timing of Trump’s UFO announcement – issued as the Trump administration has mobilized a colossal military force near Iran, with an all-out war possibly imminent – journalist and author Max Blumenthal bemoaned what he suggested was Trump’s tactic to draw attention away from the potentially catastrophic consequences of a wider regional war. [Iran]

    From a tweet just below that

    CIA planning docs show when they overthrew the Guatemalan president in 1954, they plotted planting “flying saucer” stories to distract the media.

    Another declassified study shows the Air Force misled the public in the 1950s about UFOs to conceal the CIA’s spy plane testing.

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    In Mexico, the chupacabra started showing up everywhere but my backyard after somebody assassinated Luis Donaldo Colosio. The civil unrest was short lived. Just putting this out there.

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      I kind of feel like it’s more the Epstein Files.

      We may have hit the point where war with Iran is more likely to be another distraction.

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        The War with Iran is “supposed” to distract from them crashing the economy and silver valuations to wipe a chunk of the all-devouring national debt…
        A mere convenience it might also distract from the epstein files.

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        Also definition of bigger is different depending on perspective. For someone like Trump or Thiel, losing a seat or wealth is a bigger deal than tens of thousands of people being murdered in a faraway land.

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    it would be kind of rad if aliens showed up solely because they were like, “we want the Epstein files so we know who to vaporize.” Id fw that

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      That’s what we already see. Is there something even worse that this is meant to be a distraction from? Eating children? Raping puppies? Some other horrible third thing?

      Just when you think he’s reached the bottom and nobody could possibly be any worse, he sinks lower. Every time. There is actually nothing redeemable about him.

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        It’s rumored Trump used his child pageant business to supply epstein with suitable victims, implying he wasn’t just a client but a full blown partner so to say.

        No idea if the files validate that but he seems to fear the files intensely.

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          “I’m not only the Child Rape Club for Men President, but I’m also a client!”

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          Its absolutely wild that nobody redacting the files blew the whistle on this shit yet.

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        Others may call this an exaggeration, but I hold the belief that Trump and his buddies engaged in guro on Epstein Island.

        The revelation that Epstein’s customers choked children to death with their own intestines (and then fucked said intestines) would definitely set a new low.

        It’s a type of service you can’t really get from the shady brothel across the street, you know? You need a specialized provider to get something like this.

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    Anybody who knows anything about science knows that an announcement of alien life would not be a bombshell press conference by any one nation or organization.

    It would be a slow series of scientific papers over the course of years as confidence in the findings slowly increases. Starting with “there’s something interesting going on in the atmosphere of this exoplanet” until we finally get to “we’re 95% confident that this is a biological process, but this exoplanet is 50 light years away so we can’t really do anything else with this information right now.”

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        If they discover us first this would happen in their planet:

        It would be a slow series of scientific papers over the course of years as confidence in the findings slowly increases. Starting with “there’s something interesting going on in the atmosphere of this exoplanet” until we finally get to "we’re 95% confident that this is a biological process, but this exoplanet is 50 light years away so we can’t really do anything else with this information right now.

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          The ship filled with interstellar face-eating parasitic spiders parked in the middle:

          “Alright boys, we got a 25 light year jump in either direction, which ones we wanna hit first?”

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          Only if you assume a human like logic system. Which there’s no reason to.

          Were just meat suits taking guesses at things. Its possible that were wrong on how everything fundlementally works. Because were limited to our monkey senses.

          Who knows what literal alians will use to rationalise our existence

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            I was having a discussion on a philosophy discord about a year back. The discussion dove into theoretical alien rationalities… like, “what if an advanced fungus-like life form evolved into an intelligent species that would have no use for something like an internet, and they started their societies with that advantage?”

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        Yes, for the purposes of this argument I’m discounting contact with intelligent life which seems vastly less likely to me than discovery of simple life forms.

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    It’s just going to be thousands upon thousands of transcribed “tips” from crackpots calling the Pentagon and FBI and anyone with a phone or email address.

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      Now now, it will also be “experts” clawing to speak in front of Congress like Avi Loeb and miscellaneous book-sellers and youtube personalities.

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      A massive dump of irrelevant files to distract from the fact that they still need to release 3 million more Epstein files.

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    If I were writing the script, it would turn out that the aliens found us sometime in the late 60s, but they assessed that as long as we kept electing idiots we didn’t pose a threat.

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    The Great War Of How About We Bomb Iran And Not Focus On The Fact That I Am A Pedo

    Long name, still workshopping it.

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      Trump: “smartypants brown man said thing that made me mad cuz people like him better than me. monkey video didn’t hurt his feeling good nuff! i’ll release x-files before he can!”