Anyone else having a hard time adjusting to a new reality?
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I feel really strange about all of this. Partly because of this (potentially, seemingly likely) reality that aliens are here, there are several...

This is pettier than the usual dunk tank post, but this sub is like a microcosm of propaganda. These people are convinced there's multiple species of aliens on earth already because some moths have flown across security cameras at night and Vegas lights reflect in the clouds sometimes.

I guess I can bring it back to how America is bad, since this is exactly what the CIA wants.

  • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    There is a non-insignificant number of outspoken people on social media who believe that bugs flying in front of security cameras are either orbs (from ghosts) or fairies.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      My mind is still broken by that one statistic I saw one time (don't remember where) that said more Americans regularly talk with ghosts than with a trans person

      • YoungBelden [any]
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        1 year ago

        Ghosts Georg, who lives in cave & talks to over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

      • Bjork_shhh [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Americans regularly talk with ghosts than with a trans person

        as the recent Horror Vanguard ep about Poltergay (gay pride is French people chanting "le gendarme! le gendarme!" to sexually objectify cops) said, queerness is strongly related to hauntology, folks the AIDS genocide/etc is making the fricking spectres LGBT!!!

      • disgruntled_worker [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        did some googlin'

        https://www.huffpost.com/entry/more-americans-claim-to-have-seen-a-ghost-than-have-met-a-trans-person_n_5677fee5e4b014efe0d5ed62

        The statistic comes from comparing a 2009 Pew Research Center survey on supernatural experiences, which found that 18 percent of Americans claim to have seen a ghost, and a 2015 GLAAD study on transgender visibility that found only 16 percent of Americans say they know someone who identifies as trans.

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Oh, it's from 2009? Maybe it's different now, but that's still wild to me 18% of people have seen ghosts.