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[–] flemtone@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago

I wonder what they are distracting us from this time around?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 23 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Plot twist: The aliens are among us, and are in the Epstein files - that's why such a small portion have been released.

[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 12 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 11 hours ago

That reptilians conspiracy is mildly frustrating to me. I, for one, would love to learn that there's a race of reptilians secretly running things. In fact, if you're out there, reptilian overlords, come find me. I love reptiles.

[–] epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah and they eat babies, evidently. Lizard people, aliens, billionaires... Same thing

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

they are in the white house.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

One is wearing a bad hair job,. Paints itself orange. It can hardly string together a coherent sentence. Stumbles about on 'human' legs.
It's the worst alien disguise I've ever seen!

There's even a rumour it needs to rape children...to keep itself alive, or something!!

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

Actually, him being a giant alien roach who wears a human skin as a disguise is the most convincing theory for explaining his behaviour.

Obviously, they wouldn't keep them in the base everyone knows about

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Good interview. Give it a listen or read. Aliens don't pop up 'til the end.

Kinda wild the interviewer just let "they're real" slide by with no follow up.

[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Was he not just being facetious?

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, it seems like just a way to debunk the area 51 conspiracy. And we can't really say alien aren't real, because there's like billions of planet and some ought to be in a goldilock zone that has the exact condition we have.

[–] n0respect@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He probably meant some mundane explanation, but it'd be nice to have clarity as to exactly why. I guess it was a lightning round though.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 9 points 10 hours ago

Probably Obama, like most people, figures there's life on another planet somewhere in the universe, but that tge aliens haven't visited Earth.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

Yes, it's like saying ghosts are real.