My dad's always been an anti-intellectual prick but now he's a smug one having his worst impulses reinforced by assholes on the internet and his workplace.

  • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]
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    7 days ago

    UFOs being occupied by aliens is an affront to mayos because it means there are more technologically advanced beings. This is why right wingers are increasingly anti--belief-in-aliens

    Really?

    Or they could pull an "Ancient Aliens" and just claim any other non-western civilization's technological innovations are made by those Ancient Aliens (notice how it's not really applied to western ones as much; this feels like how Hitler claimed his "own Aryan race" invented lots of these things in other lands)

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      7 days ago

      Really?

      yes. "project bluebeam" is way more popular now than it was 10 years ago

      Or they could pull an "Ancient Aliens" and just claim any other non-western civilization's technological innovations are made by those Ancient Aliens

      they do that too but only for ancient stuff