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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (5 children)

This is more believable, I think.

Humans require an external threat to unify against. An alien invasion could provide that. Without some great enemy to oppose, I do not think we would come together willingly.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, who's up for false flagging an alien invasion to get earth away from a dystopian path

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I did it 20 minutes ago.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Humans can't even unify against trump. I'm telling you you'll be seeing factions worship them aliens while some will be hiding inside their bunkers isolated from everything

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

This reminds me of the factions that form in the strategy game Terra Invicta. Some want to kill the aliens, some want to worship them, some want to study them... and my favourite faction, The Initiative, want to use first contact as an opportunity for profit, and they achieve this by sabotaging the other factions and spreading misinformation among the general population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

yeah i think in 2020 everyone got fed up because it wasn't like a tangible, visible threat. it's just invisible, everywhere, all the time. you have to desensitize to some degree to live a semblance of a life.

if there were alien snipers posted up everywhere it's a much different matter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

We can most certainly come together willingly, it just depends who has the power.

Ok sure an external threat helps, how about your boss? Most everybody has a boss.

Or healthcare, unaffordable bad healthcare is perhaps the greatest external threat we all face on earth. We can certainly unify around that, it is absolutely in the realm of possibility.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

How many times in history the colony was still infighting even under the bootheel. There is no way a united India or a united China or a united South America would have been ruled by the Europeans. They got a billion and homefield the other side has a few hundred guys with muskets.