The heuristic "government and institutions have lied to me, therefore I'm going to be inclined to believe random bullshit" is a terrible epistemic framework. I promise people this.
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It’s also terrible because they might be the very ones lying to you in this situation. https://damus.io/note1pyd3aprhu5g8ycs6pkhexurt2jxp3thqd9qa3lkg8r8d6fcdvwesvrzgsv
The proper heuristic is that govt always lies when it is useful...
to support or justify a war
to expand their power over people
to distract from some crime they've committed
to convince people there is some external boogyman or crisis that only the govt can protect them from
to otherwise justify more money printing
Anyone with half a brain can see that all legacy corp news stations are completely captured & have been little more than propaganda arms of govt for decades. The corp news sponsors are all govt controlled & govt funded companies. Anything covered on corp news stations is something the govt has directed them to cover. They have been dribbling out nonsense about aliens for a couple years now. The above heuristics suggest the alien coverage is either a distraction from something else, priming for a major "external boogyman" psyop, or some combo of the two.