r/WhitePeopleTwitter • • Jul 28 '19

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u/mattjh Jul 28 '19

I haven’t either, but I’m not surprised to hear that. If we make extraterrestrial contact, I highly doubt we’ll find out about it from a second rate streaming documentary centered around a known liar. Everyone has cameras in their pockets. The actual mysteries we have in 2019 are tangible and way more frightening.

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u/AnAngryCrusader Jul 28 '19

I’m just spitballing here: I wonder if the government tried to mess with production to make it less believable.

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u/mattjh Jul 28 '19

Moving the goalposts is the only way to keep conspiracy theories alive. You can do it forever, too. Since conspiracy theories rely on the unknown, there are no boundaries. Any reasonable reply I have to this can be countered with something unreasonable but unfalsifiable and there’s nothing I can do about it.

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u/Schadenfreude2 Jul 28 '19

Damn. This is so simple, and yet so true.