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Why is it that whenever there's something wrong with the US economy, the media starts talking about aliens and UFOs. I remember similar stories from 20 years or

Why is it that whenever there's something wrong with the US economy, the media starts talking about aliens and UFOs. I remember similar stories from 20 years or so ago when the media claimed to have photos of an alien. Is this a joke? Do people really buy this nonsense? Are they planning to use drones to kill their own citizens and then blame it on aliens? Or they want to blame COVID on alien bioweapons to shift blame? I can't figure out what the point is but it's retarded. Clearly there is no intelligent life in the universe.

newacct583 5y ago
Sorry, what's wrong with the US economy, exactly? We had a devastating pandemic over the last 16 months from which we're recovering rapidly (c.f. yesterday's really quite good jobs report), inflation seems to be a bit high though still historically low, credit markets are loose, investment rates remain extremely high historically, unemployment remains under control, wages seem finally to be moving upward after decades of stagnation... I mean... where's the bad news here?
- cryptica 5y ago
  >> I mean... where's the bad news here? Crime at all time highs. Homeless people. Rampant inflation. Censorship. I'm consuming multiple US media sources. My acquaintances in the US seem to support this narrative.
  - newacct583 5y ago
    Sigh. Of that list, only one is even plausibly an "economic" indicator, and it's laughably wrong. Even squinting and spinning as hard as you can, you'd say that current inflation might be as high as 5% at this very moment. Which while higher than it's been in a decade or two is hardly a historical outlier. But then you have to conveniently forget that over the pandemic we experienced quite high deflationary pressure which is merely being eaten up. So in fact CPI and similar metrics are up about... 2.5% per year since 2019. Which is to say, business as usual. I'll ask again: which specific US media sources are telling you there is "rampant inflation"? They're lying to you.
krapp 5y ago
You seem to be implying that the media has a pattern of using these stories as a smokescreen to distract from domestic economic issues, yet they've never been discussed in the media prominently enough to serve that purpose. No one is not talking about the economy because of this, the media hasn't stopped covering the economy to keep talking about this. There is almost always something "wrong" about the US economy or some political or military crisis at large, so any story related to UFOs that crops up will likely coincide with some greater issue related to the economy or politics or what have you, and appear to be a distraction from it. I also don't know what story from 20 years or so ago you're talking about, the details are so vague. But the media doesn't "claim" things, it reports things other people claim. Two incidents don't make a pattern, and correlation isn't connection. >Are they planning to use drones to kill their own citizens and then blame it on aliens? WTF? I can't figure it out. It's very simple - the US government was directed to release a report about UFOs, the internet (mostly thedrive) turned that into a viral story involving tic-tacs and secret patents and other unrelated nonsense, and the media is covering it because it's newsworthy. There isn't some darker, nefarious secret purpose behind all of it.
- cryptica 5y ago
  Well I was a kid and living outside the US at the time and I saw some newspaper which said something about an alien's body having been found in the US. I asked my dad if it was true and he said something like "Haha no, American media always talks about UFOs to distract their citizens." My dad implied that he had seen this trick before. Now seeing this as an adult over 20 years later, I'm getting flashbacks. That's all. It just feels like UFO news keep coming up out of nowhere and it's so boring and distracting because you know it's fake. It's a weather baloon or it's a toy helicopter or it's a spy drone or it's a trick of the light or it's a damn bird. We're been there before. Nothing new at all. Why would the government have hidden evidence of aliens, why tell everyone now releasing all evidence at once? Clearly there is an element of timing. But why choose this particular time when there are so many more important news to discuss? Two years ago there was nothing happening at all. That would have been a great time. It doesn't make any sense. I can't believe I have to explain this. Am I a genius? It's so obvious to me.

newacct583 5y ago

Sorry, what's wrong with the US economy, exactly? We had a devastating pandemic over the last 16 months from which we're recovering rapidly (c.f. yesterday's really quite good jobs report), inflation seems to be a bit high though still historically low, credit markets are loose, investment rates remain extremely high historically, unemployment remains under control, wages seem finally to be moving upward after decades of stagnation... I mean... where's the bad news here?

cryptica 5y ago
>> I mean... where's the bad news here? Crime at all time highs. Homeless people. Rampant inflation. Censorship. I'm consuming multiple US media sources. My acquaintances in the US seem to support this narrative.
- newacct583 5y ago
  Sigh. Of that list, only one is even plausibly an "economic" indicator, and it's laughably wrong. Even squinting and spinning as hard as you can, you'd say that current inflation might be as high as 5% at this very moment. Which while higher than it's been in a decade or two is hardly a historical outlier. But then you have to conveniently forget that over the pandemic we experienced quite high deflationary pressure which is merely being eaten up. So in fact CPI and similar metrics are up about... 2.5% per year since 2019. Which is to say, business as usual. I'll ask again: which specific US media sources are telling you there is "rampant inflation"? They're lying to you.

krapp 5y ago

You seem to be implying that the media has a pattern of using these stories as a smokescreen to distract from domestic economic issues, yet they've never been discussed in the media prominently enough to serve that purpose. No one is not talking about the economy because of this, the media hasn't stopped covering the economy to keep talking about this. There is almost always something "wrong" about the US economy or some political or military crisis at large, so any story related to UFOs that crops up will likely coincide with some greater issue related to the economy or politics or what have you, and appear to be a distraction from it. I also don't know what story from 20 years or so ago you're talking about, the details are so vague. But the media doesn't "claim" things, it reports things other people claim. Two incidents don't make a pattern, and correlation isn't connection. >Are they planning to use drones to kill their own citizens and then blame it on aliens? WTF? I can't figure it out. It's very simple - the US government was directed to release a report about UFOs, the internet (mostly thedrive) turned that into a viral story involving tic-tacs and secret patents and other unrelated nonsense, and the media is covering it because it's newsworthy. There isn't some darker, nefarious secret purpose behind all of it.

cryptica 5y ago
Well I was a kid and living outside the US at the time and I saw some newspaper which said something about an alien's body having been found in the US. I asked my dad if it was true and he said something like "Haha no, American media always talks about UFOs to distract their citizens." My dad implied that he had seen this trick before. Now seeing this as an adult over 20 years later, I'm getting flashbacks. That's all. It just feels like UFO news keep coming up out of nowhere and it's so boring and distracting because you know it's fake. It's a weather baloon or it's a toy helicopter or it's a spy drone or it's a trick of the light or it's a damn bird. We're been there before. Nothing new at all. Why would the government have hidden evidence of aliens, why tell everyone now releasing all evidence at once? Clearly there is an element of timing. But why choose this particular time when there are so many more important news to discuss? Two years ago there was nothing happening at all. That would have been a great time. It doesn't make any sense. I can't believe I have to explain this. Am I a genius? It's so obvious to me.