The military is rightly refusing to prove a negative.

Unfortunately, a lot of camera hogs and attention seekers are playing up the “Well but maybe it was aliens who can truly say? I just think its weird and our department needs another billion dollars to investigate” angle in front of Congress. Then they do the podcast/C-list national news circuit and whisper “It’s definitely aliens” into the mic for the most gullible of the rubes.

Listen, you’re not entirely wrong. If you’re into GILFs, you can do a lot worse.

Someone with fishing line, a soldering iron, and a box of cheap pellets can make a net that will take out all commercial drones

I would love to see the Rube Goldburg Shotgun you think you’ve invented and watch you try to fire it (from an extremely safe distance). Please post that shit to YouTube and share it, because god damn dude. Fishing line and cheap pellets shoved down the barrel of a shotgun for the purpose of butterfly netting an MQ-1 Predator?

Lolz. Lmao, even.

You have displayed a large amount of ignorance here.

Happy Hunting!

And almost no one talks about it.

Most people don’t care to entertain the confusing, fantastic claims.

‘red, glowing UFO the size of a football field’ hovering at low altitude over US space launch base in California - in event witnessed by over half a dozen military personnel

Crazy how nobody thought to snap a picture.

Something is going on.

People are blowing smoke up your ass is what’s going on. But because they’re lying to the faces of a bunch of incredulous Congressional hacks, it’s supposed to be something we take seriously.

Shifting the burden of proof doesn’t disprove the claim.

It eliminates the concern. NASA isn’t setting it’s launch schedule against the possibility of a vessel colliding with Russell’s Tea Pot, because there’s simply no evidence it exists.

You can look at a picture and call someone an idiot for believing it’s bigfoot/a drone

If I hand you a blank piece of paper and tell you it’s a photograph of a Yeti, you aren’t obligated to prove I’m wrong.

Doublespeak is real and good. I love my libertarian capitalism just like I love my public safety officers and my right to work states and my rules based liberal international order. Liberty! Whiskey! Sexy! These are the tenants of a righteous, free, and - most importantly - godly nation.

If we just work hard enough and remain honest and forthright and vigilant against the horrors of evil foreign manipulations, every man can live like a king! Work Will Set Us Free! That is why we must keep the truth always within our hearts - that better days are coming if we all just work together towards the ideal individuality. So gather round, my beautiful brilliant diligent future millionaires, and repeat after me:

Welcome to Costco, I love you.

I’m torn, because there’s an idea that industrial capital only knows how to consume and destroy what it touches. And there’s ample evidence to that effect.

But there’s this other more naive notion that life never changes, species don’t compete for habitat, and doing anything to alter the local ecology is this unforgivable sin. This, despite the fact that everything in the area is itself a product of eons of speciation and evolution and carnivorization.

The impulse to preserve has to be balanced with the expectation for change. The goal should be symbiosis, not stasis.

The take on immortality in Avatar 2 is really interesting, because both sides get to have it.

Oh definitely. But I’ve noticed that America’s failure to impose post-Soviet neoliberal capitalism on big parts of the periphery has resulted in more and more countries getting flagged for embargo and sanction. This has resulted in neighboring countries forced into some hard choices - Germany losing access to cheap Russian natural gas, the Philippines and Australia alienating itself from economic superpower China, Mediterranean shipping coasts skyrocketing after the Gulf of Aden becomes a free-fire zone due to the Americans’ ongoing feud with Iran.

The Cuban embargo can only function if it is isolated from the rest of the Caribbean nations. But putting all of Latin America on the shit list just means they trade with each other while you effectively embargo yourself.

You’ve countered that drones can fly higher than an actual shotgun range.

Yep. They can.

I’ve also noted that a lot of these sightings are of airplanes, satellites, and stars.

Also you can use door breacher rounds, or slugs in a pinch, to blow apart door hinges and locks.

I’m sure Betelgeuse is terrified.

I’m simply making observations, suggesting you draw your own conclusions, and putting up a stall that reads “Magic Alien Killing Bullets $500/round”

Notice how capital can cross borders, but people can’t?

Well… some capital. Don’t try to order anything from Cuba or Venezuela or Russia and expect it on your doorstep any time soon.

Possibly Mexico, Canada, or China soon too, if the Trumpies get everything they’re asking for.

And the citizens in a poor country can’t move to a wealthy country to earn better wages.

Best example of this I’ve ever seen (other than Israel/Gaza, which is really more of an interior border) is Haiti/Dominican Republic. The fact that they’re all on the same island but one half looks like the fucking Korean Demilitarized Zone to keep the other half out is bleak af. Particularly nauseating when you’re seeing earthquake relief getting held up by some of the most evil bureaucratic fucks you’ve ever dealt with in your life.

Some of the best.

If this person got educated in Texas, very possibly they cannot.

Check the skin tone and age cohort. You’re going to find some large discrepancies. Also skews heavily by education, as women early in their collegiate or professional careers tend to be significantly more sensitive about the prospect of getting pregnant than peers in low-paying jobs with little upward mobility.

There’s definitely a profile of a pro-abortion and anti-abortion voter.

I can’t prove it’s not bigfoot.

I mean, its trivial to prove something isn’t Bigfoot on the grounds that Bigfoot Isn’t Real. That’s just Hitchens’s Razor. The burden of proof is on the person presenting the claim, not the one refuting it.

Especially since it’s rather hard to judge scale on airborne things some distance away.

A bunch of the sightings have literally just been stars in the night sky.

Go check out Larry Hogan’s blurry picture of five of the brighter stars in the night sky.

These drones are absolutely 100% real extraterrestrial menaces, abet several hundred light-years away.

A quick Google search shows birdshot has an effective rang on the order of 40 - 50 yards.

Show me a shotgun with an effective range and I’ll show you a drone with a higher flight deck.

Its shotguns.

Using a gun with a 25’ effective range against a device hovering 50’ off the ground sounds not terribly effective, though.

Hunting a nimble flying object with a sniper rifle is a laughably absurd idea.

I mean, the whole idea that Iran has a 7th gen drone army it can project to the other side of the planet is laughably absurd. And yet here we are.

Perhaps an increase because people are now trying to explicitly spy on the military.

Is that a new development? You’d never know the Cold War had been a thing for half a century.