cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/127026
A leaked memo by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directs the Justice Department and FBI to compile a list of groups that may be labeled “domestic terrorism” organizations based on political views related to immigration, gender and U.S. policy. The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7…
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I’m rewatching The X-Files at the moment, and it’s so weird to remember a time when people believed that government agencies were staffed by people smart enough to investigate or cover up alien conspiracies.
It actually works as evidence against the theories that aliens have visited earth, because if it existed, Patel would have accidentally tweeted the Roswell autopsy video while eating his lunch on the toilet by now.
Saved this from somewhere on Lemmy years ago during Trump’s first term:
Right? I laugh now about “how organized and responsive” governments are portrayed. Hurricane Katrina was also a giveaway; but the last 10 years (especially the last year)? Gong show!
Edit: If aliens showed now, ICE would just make them disappear if they couldn’t be monetized. I miss Mulder and Scully.
I personally suspect that if aliens actually did show up to earth, they wouldn’t be content to remain in the shadows.
Basically, the native life is the only thing that would be of interest. we (that is life,) are the only things that are actually unique to this particular system. If it’s simple curiosity about things, they could study us from a distance, without ever revealing themselves to us (or the government.)
Which leaves a few reasons for why they’d come here:
Either way… we’d know they’d be here.
I kind of feel like if aliens do exist and they can travel FTL and visit Earth, they probably also would belong to some organization that controls space travel and our planet would be marked as a no go zone.
We are incredibly violent apex predators who have reshaped the very planet in our image with an unending thirst for resource consumption. I feel like aliens would not want to give us access to their tech because we are dangerous.
That’s just my hunch though, in reality I have no idea. For all I know some space Mormons will show up and absolutely wreck our shit and enslave us. We’re smart enough we’d make good pets and/or work animals. Regardless, if aliens do show up and reveal themselves to us I hope they have kind intentions.
it’s the same picture
The Mormon church just hides it better
Maybe they just want to bang us? Did you consider that?
Theres also aliens that want to lock you in a zoo, aliens that want to rob you, aliens that want to assimilate you, and (assuming our biology is the only viable route for advanced life) refugees.
I mean… it is the prime directive and all
Pretty sure the prime directive says “if they’ve nuked themselves hundreds of times… DONOTGOTHERE!!!”
(Of course they went there. What could go wrong?)
Picturing the onion article. Planet that nukes itself over and over cannot prevent nuking itself
“Planet keeps nuking itself, wonders why interstellar tourism is in decline.”
Look at Michael Cohen over here fixing it for me.
Well done!
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