• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    And a fairly significant number of people (across the political spectrum) will lap this up and assume he’s telling the truth. Despite the fact that so many other promises have fallen through.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.social
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    Why promise to release files? Just release them if you’ve got 'em!

    This is the same MFer who said he could declassify files with his mind, by the way.

    • Madrigal@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Why promise to release files?

      Because it takes time to fabricate them, even with AI.

  • Hegar@fedia.io
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    My favorite UFO explanation is that it was largely a ploy to waste the USSR’s money. They’ll have to expend more resources chasing down a red herring than it takes us to lie about it. No coincidence then, that as a near-peer competitor emerges again we get UAPs.

    “I’ll release some BS we made up” is incredibly appropriate as a desperate distraction.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    To the lengths we will see him go in order to distract from the actually important matters…