• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The conspiracy isn’t “aliens don’t exist.”

    The conspiracy is “aliens do exist and the government is hiding them.”

    The government spreads this to hide actual secrets.

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      3 months ago

      Exactly. They spread partially incorrect info to hide the real info. Just like they started the flat earth movement to hide the fact that the earth is actually an oblong.

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            3 months ago

            In the case of Paul Bennewitz, classified radio transmissions. They convinced him it was aliens and he died in a mental hospital.

            Then there was Kecksburg, where a classified spy satellite was deorbited and they just let folks believe it was an alien spacecraft.

            Same goes for all the Area 51 and Roswell stuff that helps hide experimental aircraft and secret operations behind a smoke screen of woo.

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                3 months ago

                Bennewitz’s disinformation campaign has been confirmed. The USAF passed him fake documents and encouraged him to think they were UFOs. The book Mirage Men documents this in some detail.

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    There absolutely are real conspiracies, USA mass surveillance, corporate control over media and censorship, social media amplifying autocratic propaganda while shadowbanning democratic content, big tech making propaganda easily accessible though text, image and video generation, fossil fuel oligarchs lobbying against change for the better, anything Epstein was doing, etc.

    No need to invent stuff.

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    Hasn’t it been revealed that Epstein is coordinating with oligarchs to promote conspiracy theories to dumb people down?

    I also want to say I noticed Americans seem to promote idiot kinds of conservatives like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk. I’m not conservative, but there are far more intelligent conservative pundits, such as David Frumm and Roger Scruton, who make more sense. Oligarchs promote idiot individuals to control the narrative which, in turn, control the masses’ perception of reality.