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frustrating, because on the one hand, the explanation that all the "UFO whistleblowing" is all just a self-cycling money generator scheme by cranks with governm
by zzzeek 3y ago
frustrating, because on the one hand, the explanation that all the "UFO whistleblowing" is all just a self-cycling money generator scheme by cranks with government jobs is the most obvious explanation. On the other, if you were a government desperately trying to hide the aliens, this is exactly the kind of spokesperson / story you would come up with to throw everyone off the trail.
Nevertheless, reality prevails, ill go with choice A.
- throwaway743 3y agoSo Schumer proposed a major ammendment to the NDAA, and was willfully advised by a "crank" without vetting? And said ammendment was significantly watered down by reps who have big donors within the defense contractor world who have a lot to lose over such legislation, because there's nothing there?
- xbar 3y agoYes?
- GartzenDeHaes 3y agoThere's money to steal, so a politician did something to help their cronies be the ones to steal it.
- aftbit 3y agoIMO the real conspiracy is that when you hear "conspiracy theory", you think UFOs, not Watergate.
- lloeki 3y agoFunny, that exactly sums up one of the plot twists I completely forgot about in the X-Files: secretly set up UFO/UAP events and abductions, feed nutjobs with alien theories by having Mulder&al investigate and leak trickles of info to the likes of Lone Gunmen, all while denying UFO/aliens to further feed the UFO conspiracy theory, all that to divert attention from the actual, very earthly conspiracies (turns out one of them ends up being about actual aliens and The Project, but Smoking Man makes it quite clear how he's using Mulder and the X-Files to the above end and that even fewer conspiracists know about that, with the rest being conned into thinking they sit at the top conning everyone and that there are no aliens)
- mcculley 3y agoYou think that is a conspiracy and not emergent behavior?
- chiefalchemist 3y agoCan't it be both? Can't some small subset of the gov want to cover up the presence of aliens, while others (without the clearance) and their deep-pocket'pocket'ed private industry relatives whip up stories that drive budget / business? If there aliens the number of ppl in gov has to be small[1]. [1] And before someone mentions the secrecy of the Manhattan Project, that was different. No one was going to be a hero for leaking that. It was also different times when most had more faith and trust in the Fed gov.
- filoleg 3y ago> If there aliens the number of ppl in gov has to be small Not trying to nitpick, but what was this supposed to mean? I am genuinely struggling to understand what you were trying to say, so here is the best possible interpretation I could come up with. Please correct me if I got it wrong. Was it something like “If there [are] aliens [that the US government is aware of, then] the number of ppl in gov [who are in the know] has to be small”?
- actionfromafar 3y agoI read it like that.
- chiefalchemist 3y agoYes. I left a key word or two out. Sorry.
- filoleg 3y agoAll good, no worries at all. Just wanted to make sure that this was what you actually meant, and that I didn’t interpret it incorrectly.
- zeroCalories 3y agoIt's not frustrating. Your priors for the odds that aliens have visited earth should be extremely low, and the odds of cranks existing fairly high. Given that, it's not 50/50 cranks/coverup. Intuitively you know it's a tiny probability.