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  • Yes, things are tough now. Climate change is a very serious challenge ahead. I vote Green, ride a bike, etc.

    All that being said, I’m probably older than most of you. I grew up during the cold war, when we sincerely believed we were at the brink of nuclear annihilation.

    It didn’t happen.

    I will spare you the countless doomsday headlines I’ve read in the news over the years. The hole in the ozone layer, the wars, the genocides, the natural disasters, the political churn.

    The details don’t matter. We were truly terrified of the future, just like you are. Yet, the immense majority of the fears we had did not materialize, either because we took action to prevent them or because they had been overblown. We also faced some challenges that the news didn’t warn us about.

    We prevail, like we have always done. People are much more resilient than they imagine. You can handle it and so can your children, and your children’s children. Living in fear doesn’t solve the problem, so why do it?




  • When the middle class struggles, they eventually embrace anybody who promises a break from the status quo.

    Moderate parties need to ask themselves what have they done so poorly that these extremists are now becoming popular. We’ve seen these sort of authoritarian far-right movements across the globe and I’m not seeing moderates offer a great answer.

    Personally, I would rather see a shift towards a sustainable future where the necessities of life, such as food, housing, education, health care and public transit were enshrined.













  • > you need to touch grass, the text you sent just has the same allegations, nothing new nothing concrete

    The details are classified. You and I don’t get to see them. The people who do get to see the classified evidence, like some of the congresspeople I mentioned, take it seriously. The whistleblowers have allegedly provided Congress with the names of the people in charge of the reverse-engineering projects and the locations of the materials.

    Think again about that: the elected representatives with the best access to the most sensitive information take it seriously.

    What alternative explanation do you have for multiple congresspeople from both sides of the aisle being willing to investigate these claims and writing new laws to encourage more whistleblowers to come out?

    > why have i never heard of flying saucers in africa?

    How much news do you get from Africa, generally? You won’t know things when you don’t look for them.

    One of the most widely known mass UFO sightings happened in Zimbabwe in 1994 in the Ariel School.