Our senses and brains are remarkably easy to fool. Stage magicians even make a career out of making us think we’ve seen things we haven’t.
How many times have you seen a shadow, or a silhouette and thought it was a person/monster/whatever? Our brains are wired to see familiar things in unfamiliar circumstances, and it bases it on things we’re familiar with. UFO sightings follow predictable patterns based on what style or shape of “alien ship” are biggest in pop culture at the time. We conjure up monsters we saw in movies, or read about in books or magazines.
The flag you use in your profile picture has been used by that ideology many times. Thomas Sankara in Burkina Faso or the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua spring to mind.
Do you mean the red/black in the profile picture? Lol that’s supposed to be an anarchist symbol. I can’t control what authoritarians do with an anarchist symbol 🤷♂️
I mean like… am I supposed to create a new symbol every time someone steals it?
Edit: Also: wtf? I googled the country and they use Red/Green. I can’t find a source saying they used Red/Black
It’s the ancom flag and has been used to represent the hand in hand coalition of anarchist and communist forces many many times. You’d enjoy learning about the Sandinistas in Nicaragua they had a cool thing going on, got fucked by the americans though. The CNT also used it in revolutionary Spain which was again the coalition of ML and anarchists.
None of these are “stealing it”. They are anarchists and communists working together.
Anarcho-Communists are supposed to be different from Marxist-Leninists. If there were 2 factions of these ideologies that formed a coalition, then they are no “Anarcho-Communists”, just MLs cosplaying as AnComs.
I mean… how can someone call themselves an Anarcho-Communist and support a dictatorship? That’s some crazy doublethink right there.
Can you give me an example of the ancom flag being raised by revolutionaries that hasn’t involved a coalition between anarchists and communists? I don’t think there’s a single instance of it historically but I’d be really interested in seeing an example if one exists.
When the group is only made up of anarchists, the black flag is raised. The entire symbolic point of the red and black flag is the coalition of the two.
Calling the Spanish revolutionaries “MLs cosplaying as ancoms” is absurd historical revisionism, and really honestly offensive to everyone that fought and lost to the fascists.
This is my biggest problem with believing anything alien related; how come all of the video evidence is taken on a phone camera from 2001, and the fact basically all sightings happen in the US?
The people making this shit up have to try harder than that!
There’s a somewhat rational theory that Roswell happened because it was the site of the nuclear bomb testings and aliens “only try to contact civs that are at splitting the atom tech level”.
It has some merit to it, but yeah, look at that map. Hardly convincing when looking at the reported sightings.
Does the right wing realize they could cripple humanity by using the angles in green to mean like “I’m a secret racist”. We’d all be walking around like penguins ruled by our arm wielding racist overlords!
That all these sightings just happen to occur in the US reminds me of how I’d watch old Dr Who episodes and chuckle at how all the aliens always ended up in the same sand pit in England.
Its probably not entirely fair distribution you’re seeing. This starts way back in 1906? A country like China didn’t even have any tech growth till around the year 2000 basically. They don’t even have an open policy of sharing such things. Russia did for the longest time, but it’s limited due to the population distribution (basically 80% lives near the western border) so an enormous amount of ground is never watched let alone “stuff” being reported… let alone that “stuff” getting out to media or the public.
The EU has always had a more open policy regarding UFO’s, especially Belgium shared a lot of footage over the years. But also much of South America openly shared stuff for the longest time. It’s only been the USA that turned into a “joke” but due to the paranoia people get whenever a government starts to deny things they first admitted too, people start to report anything and everything.
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Honestly, when I made the username I didn't really think that it would be taken into correlation. That's why there's "dev" at the end because I just wanted a cool username and combine it with my hobby.
Just a disclaimer because we also do not joke about what our ancestors did.
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