Lol like where is that shit even coming from? Also it's so loaded to assume they would have a hostile religion if any at all. Just so fuckin absurd
I took it to mean new human religions springing up around the aliens, not that the aliens would have religion.
Ahh okay that would make much more sense. I read it as like, "now we gotta deal with Islam AND alien religion!!"
To be fair, I remember alien lifeforms being a problem for Catholicism, partially because of the VeggieTales Twitter thread where, given that VeggieTales explicitly bans depictions of Veggie-Jesus, the veggies must be doomed to eternal damnation due to the lack of substitutory atonement for vegetables. Aliens would probably be upset about that.
The idea of Joe Biden trying to give the stirring Presidential speech from Independence Day is very funny to me
"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be, you will be launching the, uh, you know, the thing."
"Mankind. Mankind, uh, should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences. I had my differences with a neighborhood fellow, the kids called him Big Mac, and I said, 'Jack, uh, Mac, we have to unite to, unite to, in our, to get things done.'"
I wouldn't call it a religion but if aliens showed up, I'd most likely do what they want.
When you roleplay as communist guerillas in XCOM 2 only to find out in Chimera Squad that the planet you "liberated" reverts back to the same neoliberal hellhole as before.
:joker-che:
Posadism with a Maoist twist. New tendency just dropped. Get your tendies
The weapons aren't for them, it's for the "Alien Collaborators" here on earth
ADVENT is truly the people's shield against reactionary terrorism waged by XCOM.
I never understood why xcom coded so many things as morally ambiguous. Like they constantly ask if it's worth it and the answer is always "YES AND ALSO THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL IMPROVE BILLIONS OF LIVES".
It'd have been cooler if they saved those questions and the more dehumanizing designs for xcom 2.
There's actually some interesting potential when it comes to the political ramifications behind XCOM. Like how much control should it exert over local governments and the planet as a whole to combat the aliens, becoming a global military junta in the process. Sadly, that's a missed opportunity and we got the lame obligatory "moral ambiguity" you described.
iron pellet go: crack
intergalactic xenogravitron dark-energy cannon go: WUBWUBWUBWUB VROOOOMSHAVSHAKXBDHA (sort of sounds like dubstep)
No civilization advanced enough to master interstellar travel would tolerate dubstep
Just like all other modern wars, the goal is not to win, but to make money for defense contractors.
If aliens invaded earth, we really would need to check why. They are probably right to do so.
I mean, I am defecting either way. Wven if they are assholes fuck lining up to die to protext this bullshit.
Realistically, aliens wouldn't really have a reason to violently subjugate a primitive civilization for material gain if they had the technology and resources to reach Earth in the first place. So they'd probably have the best intentions to invade, anyway.
The only ones that would bother are weird sadists looking to weird shit.
However, it is almlst statistically impossoble for them to suck worse than our current leaders so I'd take the gamble.
Life as a Dark Eldar's twink slave sounds really enticing now, ngl
Get some of that hyperdimentional aftercare if you know what I mean
the breadth of the Atlantic ocean can indeed be compared to the incomprehensible vastness of space
A space-faring civilization and an early-modern civilization are quite literally worlds apart.
But the conquistadores literally did have reason to subjugate them for material gain, as opposed to aliens who have like a billion other uninhabited planets easily available to them.
Dude if they've managed interstellar travel already, I'm pretty damn sure they don't need miners any more.
we could build phones with robots but we make chinese workers do it instead
This is not true, phones are already largely assembled using robots, but there is still some things that are hard to do via robots alone which is where the workers come in. If something is easy to do with a robot, it will be done with a robot if not immediately then soon because you don't have to pay a wage to a robot, you buy it once and that's it, so with something as much in demand as phones it will always be cheaper for them in the long run if it is easy enough to do with robots. Unfortunately cellphones internally involve a number of things such as flexible cables the assembly of which is really hard to effectively automate for now. Interstellar travel is ridiculously hard to achieve. If a civilization has done that, they'll have probably solved all of these issues.
You don't have to go far away to find an uninhabited planet with lots of minerals. Almost any planet will do. They don't have to go far and find us. It doesn't sound like it is much easier to haul a bunch of weapons to a very, very distant planet to threaten the billions of people there with destruction when they could literally just dump a few robots on a planet next door, which they are probably doing already if they can travel between stars. It is something that even we can technically do already, it's just not efficient because we haven't figured out space travel yet. But we have a moon next to us, the moon has lots of minerals, and for the rest we can go to some other planet of the solar system, and you can find asteroids or planets with ridiculously higher concentrations of various resources than the earth does.
There isn't a good reason to mess with 7 billion people if you're so technologically advanced that you can do interstellar travel, unless you literally just want to be a dick for the fun of it or whatever.
If aliens show up on earth, they're probably going to be communists. There's pretty much nothing we have that they could remotely need if they've figured out faster than light travel.
he "absolutely" wants to know truth behind UFOs
bro you were the president that shit's literally in the presidential book of secrets, ive seen national treasure 2 you can't keep the truth from me
What the fuck dude, how did you not look this up while you had the keys to the white house?
Throwing people through one of those giant gyroscopes from Contact, but they see a graveyard full of alien space-genders and have gay sex with their dads before emerging on the other side completely androgynous.
No it's just because republicans didn't let him do anything...... don't you know they followed him around all day and just dog piled him so he couldn't move, it's hard to make meaningful legislation or ask questions about UFOs when rapid hordes of republican senators are taking turns tea-bagging you constantly, but I wouldn't expect extremists to understand the political process.
If aliens can reach us while we haven't even reached mars and they/we want war I don't think increasing the military budget would matter much
Aliens and UFOs are real and Posadism is true. The US is increasing their military budget to stop the aliens establishing communism
