• ameancow@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    That fat fuck could not keep his mouth shut if he knew about aliens.

    We’re assuming that if the conspiracy has any truth to it, that it’s something that the government broadly has a unified front on and are willing to share and report data with each other and report it upwards.

    I think the last several years should have taught us that it’s more than plausible with the size, scale and complexity of the US government, intelligence agencies, the thousands of huge subcontractors and other “grey” organizations, that some agencies or entities could have knowledge of things that the rest do not.

    I don’t have an opinion on “aliens” or if there’s a crashed saucer cover-up, there’s been too much disinformation and BS for me to have a take one way or another, but I firmly believe they are hiding shit that no sane person would share with the president if they wanted to keep it secret, not everyone is like the average American and most people with years of training and professionalism would look at Trump and know at first glance he’s an impotent clown and a con-man, most people in highest levels of defense and government broadly are just waiting for him to pass.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, I never bought into the"Gov’t is hiding aliens" as in spaceships and little green men per se. I figure there’s some highly secret advanced intelligence gathering that won’t see the light of day for another 30 or 40 years that has caught stuff that can’t be explained yet.

      Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

      Then there’s the time when trump showed pictures to confirm intel at a press conference and it basically confirmed that the US had spy satellites that had highly advanced resolution cameras. So if the US said “Hey, we detected this, but we don’t know wtf it is.”, every intelligence agency would immediately ask themselves: how did the US detect that, how do we protect ourselves from it, and can we also do that.

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        5 hours ago

        Lets also not forget that since we’ve allowed capital to infiltrate the very foundations of intelligence and military, we now have several thousand competing companies and contractors each with their own agendas, their own secret testing programs, their own proprietary tech they won’t dare let other companies get wind of, and so on. The US’s relationship with secret tech didn’t start and end with Skunkworks, that’s just what got the most attention back in the day. So when the US government says “We saw a thing we can’t explain” and are 100% honest when they say it, that still doesn’t mean it’s not a US government product being tested, it’s just that they don’t know about it yet.

        I also fully believe as our sensory extensions expand, as we send up more satellites, install more cameras all over the place, create more observation systems, we’re absolutely going to see more and more things we can’t explain, and likely will never be able to explain, because the universe is fucking crazy.

        Our fixation that things we can’t explain must be ghosts or aliens from other planets says more about our limited capacities and biases than anything.