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GOP Oversight Member Suggests Smithsonian Hiding Bones of Giants (meidasnews.com)
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In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

let go of the notion that there is any kind of sky daddy coming to save you.

And you prefer the equally improbable idea of "we're entirely alone in the universe?" While also discounting the possibility that there could be anything but benevolence (like malevolence, or indifference, even fully autonomous and devoid of the will necessary to ascribe them any of these attributes)?

I prefer the Robert Anton Wilson approach of agnosticism to most things (in life, not just this): "I don't know, and you don't either."

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    Genuinely, WHAT

    I never said aliens in the universe don't exist! Read again! I never gave any statement on the existence of life outside this planet, or of aliens as a scientific concept.

    I am saying this specific "spaceship" coming for us that contains "aliens", the entire idea of these "aliens" MAGA and billionaire fascists are talking about, is NOT real. THOSE aliens are fake. THOSE people are genocidal liars. That's why they are the only ones talking about it.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (13 children)

    Alright then:

    Genuinely, WHAT

    I never said what she said was the absolute truth! Read again! I never gave any statement on this specific "spaceship" coming for us that contains "aliens" that MAGA and billionaire fascists are talking about.

    Sorry to "chopped and screwed" your comment, but same same. I never said this bitch was some alien ambassador, I said you can't entirely discount the existence of UAPs anymore like people have been since (well, actually before, but) 1947.

    Go project your political bullshit on someone else, this conversation is about the potential existence of UAPs. And they're NOT the only ones talking about it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (12 children)

    I said you can’t entirely discount the existence of UAPs anymore like people have been since (well, actually before, but) 1947.

    I AM NOT DOING THAT, that's a strawman! That's my point.

    Rep Luna and all the GOP are LIARS working for a foreign government, this is substantially supported with evidence. You cannot take their word in good faith at all. The lies about the "aliens" coming are lies.

    Whether OTHERS in the alien community are ALSO liars is another conversation. This conversation was never about proving if UAPs exist or existed lol, read again, it is about whether this administration is acting in good faith about these claims (answer: absolutely not).

    This entire thread started off political - look at the title of the OP, genius. Look at the person cited (Rep Luna). If you don't like politics, don't go into a political thread and reference a politician.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (11 children)

    And your strawman is that I support some specific lady I've never heard of so I guess we're at a stalemate. Was this fun for you, or?..

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Where did I say that?

    I said quite clearly and specifically that she is lying along w other MAGA about these specific aliens. Your original claim was that her theories were plausible because they've been talked about by others - I say, no, and further, nothing she says is reliable because she is literally a mouthpiece for Putin. Everything she says is propaganda. If you don't know who she is and blindly ran interference for her talking points, that's on you.

    Just like how Candace Owens will bitch about carbon dating and isotope dating and will go into the weeds about it to make it seem like dinosaurs weren't real and never existed. These people will co-opt information to make their points seem valid when the whole thing was an elaborate lie to begin with. She is lying.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    Tbf, they're kinda not actually denying it anymore since the pentagon released the tic tac video (among others) and actually admitted "yeah this is real and we have no fucking clue what it is." They're just called UAPs now instead of UFOs.

    And the interdimensional theory isn't a fabrication of her mind, it's one of the leading theories, along with "actual aliens" and "us from the future." It's not even the wildest theory thrown around, some think the crafts themselves are alive, and the biological looking things we call aliens are the drones. Of course, all just theories.

    Now does she "have proof" of any of that beyond what the pentagon has already admitted? Likely not, but someone probably does have some more info than we know, she just ain't in the club.

    This is what you replied to. Please point to where I said "she's 100% right and I want to have her babies" or whatever fucking bullshit you think I said. If it's the part where I said "she didn't invent the idea that they're interdimensional" then thanks for playing please try again.

    Kindly huff your own farts somewhere else, will you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (8 children)

    Again making up fake stuff - I never claimed you said that. Iirc that's the 3rd time you've made up a false narrative in this comment chain.

    I said she is unreliable and the comment you wrote did not mention that at all (because you didn't know who she was). That you then had to make up a bunch of fake arguments is a you thing and weird of you. Could've just said, "yeah she is unreliable," and moved on. Instead you invented random shit to argue about. Go take some b vitamins.

    And I really didn't need to know about your fart kink.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Please, please, let go of the notion that there is any kind of sky daddy coming to save you. There's no god, no religious figure, no celebrity, no politician, no aliens who care about you or us or want to save us. There's just you wanting to take care of you, and yeah it would be a relief to not have to do that and struggle, but that's not happening. Let go of sky daddy.

    You literally pleaded with me to "give up the sky daddy." Come the fuck on dude. Quit pretending you weren't attempting to be a dick.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    There just isn't, lol is this news to you?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    No dingus, its your abject dismissal of the possibility that there could be something you don't know in the universe, "sky daddy" is just your way to be a snarky douch about it and feel superior and smart for stealing it from a meme (you're not creative, I've seen it before.) You are so upset about the fact that I'm an agnostic about the possibility that there is something to all the countless reports of UAPs over the literal centuries, by all means don't let me shake your faith, but you're not going to shake my lack of one either, and have even less of a chance to do so the more you try to act like a smug dick.

    This would be the perfect time to end this tiresome "you missing the point" contest.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    your abject dismissal of the possibility that there could be something you don’t know in the universe

    I never claimed this, that's you making up a narrative.

    I’ve seen it before

    Lol, literally got me chuckling

    You are so upset about the fact that I’m an agnostic about the possibility

    No, another weird narrative made up by someone who appears to be a vulnerable narcissist

    countless reports of UAPs over the literal centuries

    No, I was saying that Rep Luna is a liar as well as the GOP and should not be trusted, especially with their narratives that aliens will save us or whatever. Read again, kiddo

    you’re not going to shake my lack of one either, and have even less of a chance to do so the more you try to act like a smug dick.

    Lmfao omg, I don't care about your opinion of aliens but of the MAGA people lying and claiming aliens will come save us - it is a lie. All other alien stuff is irrelevant to this. I fear this is obvious but you are fullly enthralled in covert narcissistic delusions about this topic, inventing narratives to make yourself into a victom to stroke your ego - when it wasn't about any of this in the first place. Cmon kiddo, stick with reality and what's being said, not weird narrarives and delusions you're making up, you can do it! You got this!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    You literally told me to "stop believing in the sky daddy" in reference to "who knows, the government isn't even denying it anymore, there could be something out there." I literally copied/pasted it in a previous comment because it seemed like you forgot, but now I'm thinking this is just a sad attempt at gaslighting.

    Dude. The thread is all there above, it's not like you can say "nuh uh I never said that" when there's a written record of you having said that, right there, and all you have to do is scroll up.

    You read again. I never once was talking about her specific whatever and I clarified as much, your refusal to accept that isn't my problem (well, aside from it being connected to your continuing to try and be a smug dick about something I never claimed and refuse to go away.)

    I've invented no narratives. YOU did. You're the one who has ascribed meaning to my comments and refuse to accept the truth that I was talking about the phenomenon at large not some specific lady's claims.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    You literally told me to “stop believing in the sky daddy” in reference to “who knows, the government isn’t even denying it anymore, there could be something out there.”

    No, and get checked for a gas leak. I told you there was no sky daddy in reference to REP LUNA and MAGA, which the PARENT COMMENT was about and thread was about - GOP lies. The govt officials pushing this that are GOP aren't trustworthy. "The government isn't denying it anymore," only SOME of them and it's people like Gaetz and Luna lol. The government part is key here lol.

    But stick to your victim narrative, it's obviously helping you think clearly

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Then reply to the parent, not the comment that says, literally "Now does she 'have proof' of any of that beyond what the pentagon has already admitted? Likely not, but someone probably does have some more info than we know, she just ain't in the club. "

    Only SOME of them like The Pentagon not denying the tic tac video which is the literal thing I said. Jesus fucking christ you absolute muppet.

    Your "incorrect smug dick" routine is annoying, but not much else. 0/10.

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