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Oh also

I keep seeing Starlink pics claimed as drones…

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Drone:

The Maryland governor actually posted a picture saying he was worried about drones and it was orion’s belt with a couple other stars in the picture.

https://www.newsweek.com/mystery-drones-restricted-areas-2002176

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Happy Wheels is just all drones?

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🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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Why is your name blue?

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It’s supposed to be purple. I’m the voyager dev 🤓

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Ohhhh, I’ve seen you around and wondered what your name color meant. Maybe you should show why a name is colored a certain way when you click a username?

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Oh sick, thanks!

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Oh, TIL.

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Are you using Voyager?

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I’m not even American and even I have figured that a lot of that shit seems to be being push by the Republican party.

Instead of “bread and circus” they are just giving you “aliens and Iran”.

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Gotta whip up the hate so we can justify Iraq War 3. Wouldn’t be surprised if we get a bunch of new Chinese Balloon Invasion and Mexican Border Crisis hysteria in the next year, as well, since we want to pick fights with both of them.

Americans are the most propagandized people on earth. We have the tools to get them to believe just about anything, simply be saturating their eyeballs and ear holes with terror.

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Mexican Border Crisis hysteria in the next year

No, no, no, don’t be silly!

The migrant caravans aren’t scheduled to come until one month before the next midterm. We have at least two years before we hear about that one again.

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The absolute best part is…it’s USA. The moment your military gets actually slight spook, of the you know, short gasp variety…you know it because your military complex temporarily forgets limits of today’s technology and produces some sci-fi shit. And yet ya all are still able to be made to be scared of… looks into his book Mexico and…Iran…

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Trump has already been spitballing military intervention in Mexico “to fight the cartels”, like we don’t already provide Mexico with a ton of anti-insurgent trainers and totally-not-special-ops guys who totally do not do violence in-country.

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12 points

Remember the poors killing that sweet, innocent healthcare denier? Well, DON’T!

LOOK! DRONES!

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Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, it’s the same FUD tactics the wealthy have used for decades to distract from the real problems that should have been resolved decades ago.

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If I see cold war migs doing low altitude passes I’m calling somebody lol

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Bottom mid is an SU-37. Which would be slightly more alarming.

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Someone in Maine seems to have failed to ID the moon last week, so Jersey isn’t doing so bad.

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I guess the army doesn’t know a drone from a plane then? the following comes from the DOD.

_We have had confirmed sightings at Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle," the spokesperson said

“To date, we have no intelligence or observations that would indicate that they were aligned with a foreign actor or that they had malicious intent,” the spokesperson said. “But … we don’t know. We have not been able to locate or identify the operators or the points of origin.” _

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4002374/joint-staff-addresses-drones-over-new-jersey-military-installations/

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“We have had confirmed sightings at Picatinny Arsenal and Naval Weapons Station Earle,” the spokesperson said. “This is not a new issue for us. We’ve had to deal with drone incursions over our bases for quite a time now. It’s something that we routinely respond to in each and every case when reporting is cited.”

It’s not explicitly stated, but my read is they get normal consumer-style quadcopters regularly, and this is simply a continuation of that. Perhaps an increase because people are now trying to explicitly spy on the military.

The public drone sightings, on the other hand, definitely don’t seem to be consumer quadcopters. They mostly look suspiciously like 737s, V-22s, or out of focus stars.

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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.

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Sorry, could have been clearer. I was talking about random dumb civilians.

Quadcopters have been buzzing military bases for years, basically since they became available to the public.

With all this PR about drones and people sometimes blaming the military, the number of dumb civilians thinking about ‘spying’ on military bases will be on the rise.

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we have no intelligence or observations (…) we don’t know. We have not been able to locate or identify

They have no clue by their own admission.

To claim that what amounts to a literal UFO might belong to a hostile actor just because you don’t know that it doesn’t is irresponsible at best, scaremongering jingoism at worst.

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Crazy how you can have a budget in the trillions for national security but “Idk, maybe their not unfriendly? We need another six months to look into it” is the best our top military brass can come up with.

Really makes you think about how easy 9/11 was to pull off.

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It’s like trying to disprove Bigfoot. Someone comes to you with a shaky, out of focus video with no audio, time, date, or precise location.

I can’t prove it’s not bigfoot. That doesn’t mean I think it is Bigfoot, or that you should think so.

If you have good video and know where it was shot from and can cross-reference that with aircraft trackers? Then maybe they can do a good investigation. There’s been a few of those where it turns out to pretty obviously be a helicopter, a V-22, or just a 737.

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

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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.

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