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There was a time in my life when I would have been absolutely riveted by these hearings. It’s honestly incredibly depressing to reflect on just how profoundly my trust in the U.S. government has collapsed, to the point where I am unable to react to this is any way other than an exasperated eye-roll and a “So, what is this meant to distract me from this time?” I can imagine that even twenty years ago, the vast majority of Americans would have found this incredibly compelling and it would have been the number-one news story in the country, if not globally. The dissolution and atomization of American society to the point where pretty much nobody seems to even be paying much attention to this is such a catastrophic civilizational loss in so many ways, and I say this as someone who is obviously convinced that the lack of trust is completely justified.
Imagine if these hearing were taking place in, say, the Japanese government instead. I have no real insight into how functional Japanese political life is - it seems dysfunctional in its own weird ways, but kept essentially on-track by the fundamentally high human capital of the population involved - but I have to think that not only do the Japanese people trust their own government enough that they would take something like this far more seriously; but most people around the world would trust the Japanese enough to take such a thing seriously.
There are probably other governments around the world who are broadly seen as run by serious people such that if they produced at least some bare-minimum level of evidence that they’d encountered aliens, people around the would would take notice. Singapore? Maybe like… Iceland? Of course even then, you have to worry that it’s a ploy to boost interest in tourism or to get your country mentioned in international headlines. I wonder what it would take for something like this to be seen as deadly-serious, even with roughly the same level of evidence provided.
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Edit: What the fuck is this image link at the bottom of my post? I did not add this link and do not understand how it got there.
Did you post this on a phone and do you chat in WhatsApp?
I did write it on a phone, but have not used WhatsApp in years.
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Not much, apparently. Major news sources haven't given it much coverage. When Grusch first started grabbing headlines, people said it was a distraction from the Hunter Biden story, but ironically when we got to the actual day of the hearings, Hunter got much more coverage than the hearings.
It was aliens.
Yeah, it's also kind of funny how the conspiracy theorists (at this point the general "anti-NWO" conspiracy theory crowd seems to be mostly on the side of UFOs being a fake and a psyop, precisely because they feel the government is pushing them) have ben screaming about how this is a distraction from X or setting up the stage for Project Blue Beam and one-world government created on the basis of fake aliens. You'd think that if that's the reason they'd be pushing this far harder and making sure it actually sticks - and in the one-world government case actually making sure it's also pushed abroad (can't tell about other countries, of course, but this shit is receiving essentially zero attention in Finland outside of (small) dedicated local ufologist circles).
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