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Why does the bulk of the evidence of extraterrestrial life that people focus on recently seem to come from the government rather than from scientists? It seems that every time you listen to the latest news on the topic, the government is providing wild claims while mainstream scientists seem to accept or provide nearly nothing as evidence of ET life.

I usually like Ross Douthat but I recently watched his video with Diana Pasulka regarding UFOs and ETs. I am not predisposed to making accusations of government plants everywhere but the interview was so bizarre that it felt like she was just a plant to sow chaos and confusion in the space to me. I have always felt that the term "UAP" was suspicious as it is exactly the sort of SEO hashtag you would create if an entity wanted to track and analyze a certain specific narrative or conversation around a topic that already exists but within a specific context (like government-synthesized data.)

I have always had nightmares about UFOs and found aliens very scary. Have any of you ever seen a UFO or encountered an alien?

Why does the bulk of the evidence of extraterrestrial life that people focus on recently seem to come from the government rather than from scientists?

It's a strategy for countering the influence of conspiracy theorists. Throw a little alien chum in the water and watch them a) get distracted from ranting about Israel; b) make themselves look insane to an audience that might otherwise be receptive to their anti-government conspiracy theories.

I dunno, thé why files guy got one shotted into aliens and UFO’s, and he’d been talking about psychic powers before hand- and is the current king of mass market conspiracy theories.

Yes, and aliens and UFOs and Atlantis put conspiracy theorists firmly in the "harmless crank" box. Maybe fun and interesting, maybe you even think they might have a point, but you're not going to do anything about it.

When they get more into the ZOG, Epstein, Bilderberg, Pizzagate, fixing the NBA draft lottery stuff, and especially when events seem to be confirming what they're saying, such that normies start listening to their schizo rants and saying "Gee, sure seems like they might be right..." that can be threatening to the establishment.

So the government chums the water with some UFO stuff. And the guys that were putting together the Epstein information, or talking about AIPAC, suddenly they're talking about ALIEN ABDUCTIONS.

And the normies who were maybe starting to listen on the AIPAC stuff, now they're reminded oh no this guy is a crank, I can ignore him. I'm sure Israel is the good guy.

The people going off on aliens were already talking about Atlantis and government witchcraft programs and Bigfoot, that's my point. It’s not converting the antisemites and Epsteiners. It’s converting thé people ranting about Nazi bases in Antarctica and psychic spies.

Imagine you and our learned friend in argument SecureSignals are at a party in college. You both spot the same blonde, and you're both hitting on her. She seems to like you, you're hitting it off, but then SecureSignals starts telling her about his interest in chemical engineering and ground penetrating radar and she might like him better. You want the girl, what do you do?

You bring up the Jews. You mention how much you loved the movie Schindler's List. Because you know that SecureSignals, however interesting and attractive he might be otherwise, will be unable to resist talking about how the design of the gas chamber makes no sense and the bodies were never found and it would be mathematically impossible to burn that many bodies and it's likely most of the Jews died in Soviet captivity. And that's going to scare the hoes.

I understand your point, these guys were all ALIENS guys before any disclosures. But when they're a threat, you want to bring the ALIENS stuff to the front to scare the hoes and discredit the "Dark Money From AIPAC might influence US foreign policy" stuff. It's a foolproof trigger. JFK assassination stuff works pretty well too.

What a fascinating twist on that one scene from A Beautiful Mind.

Actually what I was thinking of.

The play isn't to go for the brunette, it's to start an obscure math argument among your dork friends.

Only for Feynman to score the triple.

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