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  • femicrat [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    See! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! It's failure to address the central claim while waving around the discrediting information the government spread to discredit him. You'll notice they always do this: attack the man instead of the claim. They're really good at digging up dirt. If you cheated on a test in sixth grade they'll find out about it and tell the world never to trust a cheater.

    Of course there's no evidence, it's been closely guarded for decades. Was he supposed to smuggle out a UFO part in his jacket or something?

    • Kaputnik [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's because there's no way to prove a negative. We can't prove that claims of UFOs and government conspiracies with aliens are false because there is no concrete evidence presented in favour of it. When evidence is presented then it is proven false. This is the whole point of something like Russell's Teapot, I can say there's a teapot floating in space around Mars and you can't prove me wrong because I have no material evidence for you to examine.

    • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      Regardless of the source's credibility, the claim has no affect on our lives without hard evidence. It's fun to think about, and I hope irrefutable evidence comes out to break up the monotony of existence in hellworld, but until then it unfortunately doesn't mean much.