chapotraphouse

because the world is dying and its murderers want you distracted

Maybe I'm wildly cynical, but it just seems like a LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME distraction from the actual systemic issues, which might not be effective at siphoning off all disaffected people, but which is effective at siphoning off a significant enough fraction of disaffected people to be useful.

That was months ago

It seems like a coincidence because the grifter with the ‘alien’ bodies saw UAPs were in the news again and wanted to make a buck. The bodies are fake, and they’re back because aliens are back in the news

Sounds like it makes for a good scifi plot. I wonder if there's any leftist scifi that depicts a secret history of the Cold War where the capitalist and communist factions compete to reverse engineer alien tech they start finding at the dawn of the atomic age? Sounds like a cool concept for a story or series of books.

alien UFO idiots are always doing shit, it would be weirder if stuff didn't happen around the same time.

I would like to think, in an ideal world, Musk uses his "Starlink" to be the sucessor to Arecibo and build an Earth sized high resolution radio telescope to send and recieve communications from long distances. Then we would get serious about actually linking up with Aliens in a public way. An age of tech sharing and cooperarion. The end to manufactured scarcity and evolve as a spiecies.

Then I come back to defaulting that the absolute worst of crap-it-all-ism and imperalism is the norm and see it as a cynical ploy to fund a Death Star space race to fear monger about fictional space weapons by our economic competitors and to gatekeep by force any other nation from expanding in space and doing actual cool evolutionary society advancing stuff.

Okay y'all I get the Navy will happily mislead us. I'm mostly interested in your thoughts on the Peruvian mummies. https://strangeuniver.se/posts/nazca-mummies-highlights-from-mexicos-second-congressional-hearing

Like all that is wild as fuck and I don't really believe it but also we've got 20 respected South American scientists signing off on this report. It's all a scam to distract us? Who is funding it? It's hella elaborate.