They are just as advanced as I always suspected.
How could an adult unironically ask such a question. Do they think alien movies are real?
If aliens exist they'll be nothing like us. Invading is something only a primitive, colonial creature would do. Any creature like that would kill itself off before it managed to achieve the ability to travel to us.
And I imagine that much like with COVID, the US wouldn't accept help from China
I want to believe this to be the case
But I just know that in this reality, we're probably going to get Space Mormons
Fucking space Mormons keep knocking on the planets door asking me to read about space Jesus.
Telling us we can't have our Hot Space Drinks and wooing all the Space Women with their talk about Space Joseph Smith
Yes, Joseph Space was disintegrated for trying to marry a 14 year old and no, Brighambacca was not there during the shoot-out in Space Illinois
I'll pretend to believe in Space Jesus if I can go enjoy all the freaky alien technology with all my Space Mormon friends
"Turn off the inertial dampers as we enter the asteroid field. Michelle agreed to let me soak"
Yeah, but nobody is going to jack their spaceship and turn it into a big ol' battleship
Alternatively, we wouldn't even register on their understanding of complex life. Would you notice when you step on an ant?
:sickomogus:
Anybody else feel like every single thing is a psy-op? I feel like I’m losing grasp of reality
lots of things are motivated by class interest without being an actual psyop, the experience might be the awareness of how much of media is focused on maintaining bourgeois class power
Once you realize everything is a PsyOp, you have a firmer grip on reality than half the people I know.
We've been studying your planet for about 100 years and we think we've found the cancer...
I'd hope that any aliens species watching us through the years can rightfully pinpoint the USA as the no. 1 threat to global stability and peace on the planet. Unless they're evil and have joined forces with us decades ago.
There have been polls finding that even most humans find the US to be the greatest threat:
https://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-poll-biggest-threat-world-peace-america-1525008
That's from 2014, so I'm curious to what extent anti-china hysteria has moved the dial away from the US.
EDIT: Some new shit from this year! https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993754397/poll-much-of-the-world-sees-the-u-s-as-a-threat-to-democracy
Unless they’re evil and have joined forces with us decades ago.
What else did you think was going on at Roswell? :posadist-nuke:
Probably the lizard men, as they are allegedly evil. The left needs to align with the greys.
Depends on the kind of space owl
Some are in the Space Barn and some are in the Space Woods
Earth reptiles? Cool and good.
Space reptiles? :disgost:
So the aliens only invade the US? They must be some intergalactic peacekeeping force. I'm on team alien.
The Aliens found out America had WMDs and are invading to capture them.
Incidentally, the aliens are also sending tactical pulse cannons to my local DSA chapter and a neighborhood Unitarian church, as they have been flagged as Moderate Rebels willing to fight on the invaders' behalf.
100% uncritical support for our alien liberators :rat-salute: :dax-stoked:
This man is the top opinion columnist at the American Paper of Record
they're gonna fake an invasion to get more money for defense
"aliens" will invade exclusively the united states and americans will think nothing of it
"wow, space force miraculously fended off the aliens, who were real" :big-cool:
The fact the DOD has been making a big hullabaloo about "UFO"s and shit after space force officially became a thing had convinced me that the feds are making shit up to expand their corpulent-ass budget even more so they can get darpa to make them more dumb fucking ideas that cost billions for them to draw on a napkin as the war ghouls drive dumptrucks of cash while cackling all the way to the banks
why would they do that they could just ask for more money and get it. This is needlessly elaborate
they aren't going to fake an alien invasion because people like that take themselves too seriously to become scooby doo villains
We’ve never seen this tactic before from Beijing: We’ll clean our air, but only if you let us buzz Taiwan’s airspace and choke off the air of freedom in Hong Kong.
so climate change - which China seems to be taking more seriously than most of the developed world - is being leveraged here to stoke the new cold war BS - I knew Tommy 'world is flat' Boy here had to be doing some super dumb-ass angle
:agony-turbo:
at least there's a bit of diluted truth in the last bit, even Tommy Boy couldn't avoid it:
Biden is now trying to fill in the details with specific plans. Alas, without a single vote of support from Republicans.
China, by contrast, Harvey added, is building incredibly detailed plans on how to decarbonize, which Beijing could scale up very quickly — but it has been less detailed in setting hard dates for fulfillment.
Since Xi right now is focused on keeping the Chinese economy growing while he tries to lock in his third term as president, he is not going to do anything to curb growth in China in ways that could sap his popularity. So China will keep burning a lot of coal for a while. But don’t be fooled: Beijing is also building huge amounts of solar, wind, hydro and nuclear power. It’s game on.
Xi is a posadist, and thus knows aliens are communists and any “invasion” would be a liberation
Luke savage on Twitter pointed out that the article is worth reading, it's somehow funnier than the title. On a pure entertainment value Tom Friedman is worth every penny.
Why would I read this when Will Menaker is going to do it for me in tomorrow's episode?
