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[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago

Pretty cool if you ask me

Although, the benevolent ones all tend to be blonde haired and blue eyed for some reason thonk

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago
[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is the best use of this emoji this site will ever see

xi-clap

I swear to God, haters, I don't want to hear that his eyes are green. I will hellzone grenade your asses

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Yeah I always thought the Nordic Aliens were some fucking weird racism brainworms

[-] micnd90@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

They mostly only abduct bored suburbanite white anglo pepo

[-] Philosophosphorous@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

plenty of explanations for this map: cultural differences in how phenomena are interpreted (what americans interpret as 'aliens' may be more likely to be interpreted as 'angels' or 'spirits' or 'weird imperialist jets' or something in many other cultures without the same mass media sci fi trends in their pop culture, and maybe they are even correct to do so!), less access to electronics like cameras to record sightings, less interest among media industries of other cultures to cover such topics, less military equipment like radars and jets deployed to possibly detect phenomena, less organizations researching sightings in other countries, etc. Its silly to present this one map as some kind of 'gotcha' imo.

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

this map literally only represents reports from one org based in the US. it's misleading nonsense and I wish people would stop posting it

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Nah, that's just using data from an English-speaking org.

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

only reports made to an English language org based in the US. I wish people would stop posting this misleading shit, I used to think it was funny too until I learned it's meaningless and misleading and doesn't prove anything.

[-] RION@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago
[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago
[-] RION@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

This makes me miss getting stickbugged

[-] Shaleesh@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

no ayylmao ever misgendered me so they're in the clear as far as I care

[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

cringe, they're out there watching us destroy ourselves instead of parachuting in and giving us a communism button to push

Death to America

[-] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago
[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Cool as long as they're not just ham fisted analogies for different races.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

Cringe, they show up everywhere naked, no sense of style at all.

[-] someone@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

no sense of style at all.

LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE-

[-] Philosophosphorous@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

how do u know that 'green skin' isn't an advanced bionic life support suit?

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

It's a gimp suit, they're just doing fetish shit on us.

[-] Aradina@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

Depends on if they give me a spaceship

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago
[-] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

Ghosts are cool, cryptids are cool. Aliens tend to be cringe. As silly as little green men look, anything past that tends to encourage racism and a lack of curiosity.

[-] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

If they were cool, they'd have eradicated the "international community" already. It's not too late, but they better do it sooner than later.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] sweatersocialist@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

i'm a bit torn on aliens tbh, i did have an experience when i was younger with an alien but at the same time i feel like they're pretty cringe. when i was 14 i was approached by an alien, he was maybe 3 foot 5 and had a high pitched little voice. he was wearing this funny little hat and saying some cold cryptic message about how facts don't care about my feelings

[-] peppersky@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Real aliens cool, almost every way we humans imagine them cringe

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Sebrof@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

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[-] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago
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