At least religious people have an excuse because their belief comes from a place of suffering, no one who thinks these sci-fi fantasy concepts are real is suffering, these beliefs come from a place of extreme comfort, nobody who believes in aliens is from the global south, how many times do liars need to stand in front of governments and say “aliens are real” for there to be some kind of explicit denouncement from atheists for these absolutely non-atheistic beliefs that get a pass because they are sci-fi. PURGE THE NERDS!

  • Vampire [any]
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    4 months ago

    nobody who believes in aliens is from the global south

    wtf

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Half of the Chinese population believes in UFOs, including China's former foreign minister, Sun Shili. Some of the most infamous sightings in history occurred in Brazil and Zimbabwe. The former president of Kalmykia (part of the Russian Federation), Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, believes in aliens and claims to have been abducted.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          For sure. I'd have to look up the specific cases though. The Dyatlov Pass incident is the only one I can remember off the top of my head.

          Edit: Also the Salyut-7 cosmonauts' "angels".

          • Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida [he/him]
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            4 months ago

            If they had interest, then there's the Second World right there, which at least gets rid of this tired trope that only Westerners think of UFOs. I'd at least like to see other prosaic explanations outside that vein of thinking like: "Maybe both the Americans and Soviet citizens saw their respective country's secret Cold War military projects and called them UFOs."

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        That chart uses data from an English-speaking US-based org. Chinese people are not going to call them to report a sighting; they would report it to one of the several Chinese orgs.

        “[I]t’s worth mentioning that the NUFORC is an American agency (“N” stands for “National”). They make an effort to record international sightings (phone banks staffed 24/7), but I’d guess that sightings in the USA are still over-represented. Honestly, I’d bet that the NUFORC being based in Seattle is the main reason we see so many more sightings in the States.

      • Vampire [any]
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        4 months ago

        ask your friends if they believe in aliens

        "nobody who believes in aliens is from the global south" is one of the wildest sentences I've read in a while

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Yeah but Posadas, for instance, had most of his following in Latin America.

      • dannoffs [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        No, most recorded reports of UFO sightings are from the imperial core.