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Post by wizardforhire »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #269
anigbrowl wrote: post #228

This is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.

It's the next distraction. They have a new one queued up every week until November.

As wild as this is, its very true… idk about till November as I think their playbook repeats too often. Regardless, I have friends that run mobile studio vans for on-air guests whose major client is fox news… they get schedules two weeks in advance of guests. Locations… scheduling, production, logistics all takes time and planning obviously… the studios and powers at be absolutely have already thought in advance what stories they’ll be pushing! Not to say random last minute events don’t happen constantly throwing a wrench in things… but regardless the over arching narratives and news cycle are already mostly planned out.

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Post by daveguy »

CMay wrote: post #328
nolok wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure they renamed it the departement of war, for some reason

It used to be named the Department of War and Palmer Luckey suggested naming it back. People agreed, so they did. It's just another part of changing the posture to match the philosophy that the best defensive is a good offense. It seems to be working pretty well, if you know what we're defending against.

You clearly don't.

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Post by daveguy »

GolfPopper wrote: post #177
nolok wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure they renamed it the departement of war, for some reason

> I'm pretty sure they renamed it the daprtement of war, for some reason. Nope. Actually renaming it was too long and complicated a process, so instead they're pretending they renamed it.

Exactly this. Corrupt frauds through and through.

They're weak and ineffective, so they cosplay with letterhead instead.

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Post by netbioserror »

adi_kurian wrote: post #340
netbioserror wrote: post #198

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Hmm. I just read the page. It's about a famous concept that came from a book written by a Jewish Marxist who fled Nazi Germany. he wrote it in Paris in 1935 as the Nuremberg Laws were passed. Killed himself in 1940 trying to escape the Gestapo. He's not hiding any of it. Masquerade is a bit rich.

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Post by mrandish »

cubefox wrote: post #317
mrandish wrote: post #281

For anyone else who has a UFO-crazy uncle, I've found Mick West's YouTube channel to be invaluable https://www.youtube.com/c/mickwest . Mick is a retired video game programmer (Spider Man, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk), who does extremely well-researched videos analyzing UFO claims. He's not flashy or trying to be entertaining, just thorough, evidence-based and scientifically rigorous. He'll even do controlled experiments,…

He doesn't seem to explain the recently popular "transients" though.

I think it takes time. I can only imagine the hours required to research, develop and shoot such well-evidenced explanations, given that part of his audience is true believers searching for any gap through which they can sustain their beliefs. But look at his website: https://www.metabunk.org. A quick search there for "Transients" returned several pages of posts, some from Mick himself.

Frankly, I don't follow it these days as I have nowhere near Mick's saintly level of patience to so calmly endure a never-ending game of whac-a-mole. Rational, evidence-based skeptics like Mick are doomed to Sisyphean toil because even after they've resoundingly explained a hundred vague claims, UFO (and Chem-Trail, Flat Earth, etc) true believers will always find a new one to hitch their belief to. Because, apparently, a consistent trend of 100 consecutive falsifications implies nothing about the likelihood of #101. And at the end of the day, it's impossible to conclusively prove a negative.

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Post by daveguy »

adi_kurian wrote: post #340
netbioserror wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Hmm. I just read the page. It's about a famous concept that came from a book written by a Jewish Marxist who fled Nazi Germany. he wrote it in Paris in 1935 as the Nuremberg Laws were passed. Killed himself in 1940 trying to escape the Gestapo. He's not hiding any of it. Masquerade is a bit rich.

The blatant dumpty astroturfers are getting annoying, aren't they?

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by uncircle »

krapp wrote: post #60
dgellow wrote: post #44

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Flooding the zone, as they say. More tragic than hilarious

At least they're flooding the zone with something moderately entertaining shit.

Panem et circenses, am I right? The American population is so cooked, but hey, at least they’re having fun!

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by stevenhuang »

criddell wrote: post #255
aurareturn wrote: post #3

Pretty cool to dig in but distraction for something else?

Are you saying that if you were to dig in to this, you would forget about other things? These distraction comments always sound a little condescending to me. They are all over Reddit and it's a bit of a bummer to see it taking off here.

These are the sort of people who aren't good with ambiguity, lack curiosity, and cannot tolerate holding conflicting views.

This reframe is a meme, but truly, if they were to dig into this topic they'd find there's more to uaps than meets the eye. There is something here that we don't understand.

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