I feel like it's particularly important when dealing with aliens to emphasize that IT'S STILL OFFICIALLY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ! WE AREN'T PLANNING A WAR AGAINST YOU!
I feel like it's particularly important when dealing with aliens to emphasize that IT'S STILL OFFICIALLY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ! WE AREN'T PLANNING A WAR AGAINST YOU!
To be fair, it does feel like the US military is being run by a mid 30's basement dweller that uses his mom social security money to my a bunch of pay-to-win crap and still gets wrecked by a lobby...
To be fair, it does feel like the US military is being run by a mid 30's basement dweller that uses his mom social security money to my a bunch of pay-to-win crap and still gets wrecked by a lobby of 13 year olds.
But in all seriousness, it does look like the current us military has a thing for the aesthetics of the military, without any of the tedium or rationale that would make the biggest war machine in history even somewhat effective. Like that AI written speech after that pilot rescue thing. It's like someone is fishing for quotes or narratives that will fit into a game depicting this war. Hell, even the rhetoric they use reeks of insecurity. Insistent in only talking about "warfighters", constant use of religious imagery, constantly reiterating just how completely Iran's capability has been destroyed.
It bleeds over into this web design with the faux military, cyberpunk, conspiracy styling. Like this project had more forethought than the whole "who would have thought they would choke out global oil supply" situation. Its so tragically juvenile.
Regarding the aesthetics: The entire Trump admin is like this. It's the culture of the admin from the top down. The only thing that matters is spectacle. One has to be able to claim that something...
Regarding the aesthetics: The entire Trump admin is like this. It's the culture of the admin from the top down.
The only thing that matters is spectacle. One has to be able to claim that something has happened, and show a ribbon being cut or something. It doesn't matter if anything of substance has happened. There are constant examples of this from both terms, from the pandemic response to the war with Iran.
For many (most?) people, this is so transparently obvious that it feels like we are all going insane. How can anyone buy this? It's more obvious than a kid with chocolate smeared all over their face who denies eating the candy. But for people within the very large cult of republican voters, it's the only thing they need.
In fact though, there's something emotionally or spiritually wrong with a large amount of people who tend to vote republican and actually believe that republicans are a moral choice or are better for the economy. The opposite is clearly true since at least 1980. It doesn't help that most of the media has been captured by oligarchs who parrot the lies they are given with little comment.
It really does feel like taking crazy pills when discussing issues with these people. They just know you're so transparently wrong while dismissing all evidence to the contrary.
It really does feel like taking crazy pills when discussing issues with these people. They just know you're so transparently wrong while dismissing all evidence to the contrary.
I imagine that clicks is the only thing they care about. These people are completely addicted to clicks, retweets, upvotes, etc. Everything they do is spectacle, trying to build followers.
I imagine that clicks is the only thing they care about. These people are completely addicted to clicks, retweets, upvotes, etc. Everything they do is spectacle, trying to build followers.
My view of the sequence here is: Quick! Start another war in the Middle East to distract from the Epstein Files! ...things happen due to incredibly predictable consequences that are bad for the...
My view of the sequence here is:
Quick! Start another war in the Middle East to distract from the Epstein Files!
...things happen due to incredibly predictable consequences that are bad for the economy and make trump look like an idiot even to his base...
Quick! Release some UFO files to distract from the war in the Middle East and the price of fuel!
Well yes the Trump Administration is transparently corrupt that that's some kind of transparency. They don't even try to hide the self dealing, market manipulating, direct lying about mundane...
Well yes the Trump Administration is transparently corrupt that that's some kind of transparency. They don't even try to hide the self dealing, market manipulating, direct lying about mundane things like gas prices, and election interference. Just to name a few.
There are only 162 files plus a handful of pictures of nothing, but here is the actual repository. At least there are videos on the AARO site (the actual UFO investigation office):...
There are only 162 files plus a handful of pictures of nothing, but here is the actual repository.
Just Show Us the Spaceships Already - The Atlantic Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story. ...
Spaceships. That’s all I’m asking for. Just one actual stinking spaceship. I’d also take an actual alien body—I’ve been told that the government has some of them as well. Instead, the first “alien files,” released yesterday, appear to be the same old, same old: stories, but no hard evidence—certainly not of the kind I’d want to see as a scientist, or that could truly advance the debate about UFOs and their alien connection.
A lot of expectation led up to this document “disclosure.” Just a few months ago, President Obama prompted wild speculation with a misinterpreted comment about the reality of extraterrestrial life. Not to be outdone, President Trump then posted on social media that he would direct the release of “Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).” I’m an astrophysicist whose day job includes searching the cosmos for intelligent life. I was skeptical, though intrigued, about the possibility of finally getting scientific evidence that extraterrestrials existed and are regularly visiting our planet.
That’s not what happened. What I’ve seen so far of the website constituting yesterday’s release looks more like fuzzy images and retracted accounts of ordinary people and members of the military seeing “something.” Some of the documents—which the Pentagon has said it will continue to release on a “rolling basis” every few weeks—go back decades. One image of a silver oval, an FBI employee’s “graphic overlay” on a picture of a field, intended to depict eyewitness accounts, is almost laughable in its simplicity. Low-resolution images of flying blobs cannot begin to answer the existentially important question of alien life.
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In the end, this latest trove of documents makes me think of the John F. Kennedy assassination and the endless swirl of conspiracy theories that still surrounds it. Since 1992, multiple rounds of documents relating to that ill-fated day in 1963 have been released. None of it has resolved what happened for the conspiracy-theory prone. Perhaps nothing ever will. This may be what happens with UFOs/UAPs. It’s easy to imagine that a decade from now, we’ll still be rehashing the same claims and the same arguments about those claims.
Meanwhile, the science of astrobiology is pushing onward. Using ultrapowerful telescopes, astronomers will continue the slow, steady work of looking for alien life where it lives, on alien worlds. One day, likely over the next few decades and perhaps long after the current UFO-disclosure frenzy is over, my fellow astronomers might give us hard evidence that life is either common or rare in the galaxy. That will be the only disclosure day history remembers.
Why does that web page look like it's from a 2005-era COD ARG? It's like a video-game brained LARP of a government website...
I noticed the defense.gov link redirects to war.gov and was reminded Hegseth exists which explains it all so I left the site.
I feel like it's particularly important when dealing with aliens to emphasize that IT'S STILL OFFICIALLY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ! WE AREN'T PLANNING A WAR AGAINST YOU!
To be fair, it does feel like the US military is being run by a mid 30's basement dweller that uses his mom social security money to my a bunch of pay-to-win crap and still gets wrecked by a lobby of 13 year olds.
But in all seriousness, it does look like the current us military has a thing for the aesthetics of the military, without any of the tedium or rationale that would make the biggest war machine in history even somewhat effective. Like that AI written speech after that pilot rescue thing. It's like someone is fishing for quotes or narratives that will fit into a game depicting this war. Hell, even the rhetoric they use reeks of insecurity. Insistent in only talking about "warfighters", constant use of religious imagery, constantly reiterating just how completely Iran's capability has been destroyed.
It bleeds over into this web design with the faux military, cyberpunk, conspiracy styling. Like this project had more forethought than the whole "who would have thought they would choke out global oil supply" situation. Its so tragically juvenile.
Regarding the aesthetics: The entire Trump admin is like this. It's the culture of the admin from the top down.
The only thing that matters is spectacle. One has to be able to claim that something has happened, and show a ribbon being cut or something. It doesn't matter if anything of substance has happened. There are constant examples of this from both terms, from the pandemic response to the war with Iran.
For many (most?) people, this is so transparently obvious that it feels like we are all going insane. How can anyone buy this? It's more obvious than a kid with chocolate smeared all over their face who denies eating the candy. But for people within the very large cult of republican voters, it's the only thing they need.
In fact though, there's something emotionally or spiritually wrong with a large amount of people who tend to vote republican and actually believe that republicans are a moral choice or are better for the economy. The opposite is clearly true since at least 1980. It doesn't help that most of the media has been captured by oligarchs who parrot the lies they are given with little comment.
It really does feel like taking crazy pills when discussing issues with these people. They just know you're so transparently wrong while dismissing all evidence to the contrary.
I wonder what fun ways they could theme a site like this for the Epstein files.
Why did I get a notification that a tracker was blocked on a government website? Are they checking the success of their seo?
I imagine that clicks is the only thing they care about. These people are completely addicted to clicks, retweets, upvotes, etc. Everything they do is spectacle, trying to build followers.
I realize my post is going to be a shit post, but I also feel like this is a government shit post.
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This is a real Final Fantasy Tidus laugh moment.
Get out of my mind!
My view of the sequence here is:
Quick! Start another war in the Middle East to distract from the Epstein Files!
...things happen due to incredibly predictable consequences that are bad for the economy and make trump look like an idiot even to his base...
Quick! Release some UFO files to distract from the war in the Middle East and the price of fuel!
Absolutely
Well yes the Trump Administration is transparently corrupt that that's some kind of transparency. They don't even try to hide the self dealing, market manipulating, direct lying about mundane things like gas prices, and election interference. Just to name a few.
There are only 162 files plus a handful of pictures of nothing, but here is the actual repository.
At least there are videos on the AARO site (the actual UFO investigation office):
https://www.aaro.mil/UAP-Cases/Official-UAP-Imagery/
Just Show Us the Spaceships Already - The Atlantic
Until the U.S. government has data or samples of alien material that can be shared, the story of extraterrestrial visitors is just a story.
...
Please, please, please give us https://defense.gov/bigfoot and https://defense.gov/chupacabra next!
I'll take one Epstein files please
The government isn't ready to release any files that reveal anything true!