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CNN: Thousands of people have taken a Facebook pledge to storm Area 51 to 'see them aliens' [Update: US Air Force responds]
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I've spent a long time trying to understand whatever it is you're saying and honestly even ignoring the weird conspiracy to keep area 51 hidden part, you're completely wrong about what alien invasions as a story do.
Alien invasions are a reflection of imperialism. It's a way to put countries like America and it's audience that will never be invaded in the shoes of overwhelming brutality and killing.
Thinking about it more I think you're just wrong in general, movies displaying how the government is capable of covering things up don't justify doing that. They draw attention to it. I don't see the warehouse in Indiana Jones as some fantastical thing, it's meant to be unsettling.
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You both sound like middle aged people complaining about young hippies in the sixties and seventies.
I mean... do I? People complaining about hippies tended to complain because they wanted a regressive backwards way of life to continue and were upset at seeing people spend their energies altering those institutions. From a historical perspective, sure, the hippie movement was around the LEAST effective part of the New Left movement, but it was still committed to those values.
If this were an irreverent, meme-filled way to actually, yunno, tackle problems facing our society today, it would make me a lot happier. I still enjoy the memes, as I said, I just wished people used this kind of energy and (in my opinion) building momentum for just causes.
I've seen some of these including "staceys" and "chads" so I assume it's part of those labeling memes
You are creating a false dichotomy. People can both enjoy the stupidness of this Area 51 shit and also work to change the system and dedicate time to real issues, and plenty of people are doing just that.
People do use memes to spread social awareness already.
In the hypothetical that over a mlillion people were to actually do this, I don't think the military would resort to just killing all of them tbh.
US Air Force responds
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Storm Area 51: US military 'ready' to confront 600,000 alien-hunters threatening to break into top-secret base
I so want the mob to show up, find the gates/doors unlocked and the entire base is ghost town empty because this whole thing has been publicly projected. The live streams would be something to see.
Honestly they could have just responded with a simple "Don't." It would have been more than enough and better PR than something vaguely official sounding like this.
They've already moved the most valuable assets via molecular teleporter so what's the difference?
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If you really think about it, if they already moved the aliens then they would encourage people to come
the fact that they're still trying to deter people means there are aliens in there without a doubt
Rofl. This meme is going to escalate into something either really special or really horrifying
Even if these clowns managed to get onto the base, best case is that really all they get to do is run around like morons on a flightline, since pretty much anything actually critical to national security or really as classified as supposed Alien tech would be would be locked up tight in secure buildings and SCIFs which they aren't getting into. Worst case, well USAF Security Forces are bored as hell and some of them are way to ate up and think they are Navy SEALs or something so dream of stuff like this.
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This may be my favorite one yet. I've always loved the template itself
This is a lot more diplomatic of a response than "lmao we'll gladly shoot some weebs with rubber bullets"
Only five people are going to show up.
But, but... if the military ever gunned down a million civilians, idiots or not, there would be massive anti-military domestic terrorism.
They wouldn't need to. Let's say everyone turned up.
There will be a million people facing a locked gate, armed guards and barbed wire with no idea of what actually to do, other than take live videos and meme around. I don't think anyone is serious about trying to storm the place with force after all.
I reckon they deal with nutty trespassers pretty much on the reg. Nobody is going to be mowed down, even if a few dorks show up because of meme magic.
A few batons to the knees, though...
A few batons to the knees, though...
This thread is one of the dumbest threads I have ever read through on Era and I love it.
We need more fun threads like this.
We need more fun threads like this.
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No one's showing up anywhere-- if a couple dozen people show up for the lulz it won't matter. Millions of people go to watch Marvel films, and that doesn't help anyone. This is just people having some dumb fun.
Also, the date isn't until the end of September. Shit will be long forgotten by then.
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Look at that response. Absolute shook.
Go start a raid on an ICE facility yourself then. You can't tell people they're bad for not raiding ICE when you yourself are not raiding ICE.