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[–] [email protected] 100 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Deceive. Inveigle. Obfuscate.

(That’s a deep cut, wonder if anyone got it.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the risk of making a fool of myself (as is tradition). Deceive, inveigle, obfuscate is DIO. "You expected a social movement to reform / replace the US's weird healthcare system, but it was me, DIO!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's a reference to an X-Files episode, one of the few where they swapped out the 'Trust No One' text in the opening credits.

BUT... I like the way you think!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"Inveigle" I learned a new word today, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I stg every time UFO Reddit gets worked up, it ultimately has the most mundane explanation which everyone forgets as soon as the next thing comes up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

At this point it's pretty clearly a way to distract the rubes

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is OP suggesting that the drone sightings are a mass conspiracy to distract us from our collective rage at the healthcare industry? Pretty sure the drone stuff in NJ started picking up before the UHC shooting even happened.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The mass media coverage didn't happen til the UHC thing

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Ah okay, I see what they’re saying. That makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Eh, I'd say it picked up, it was already in the news, and the sightings have been spreading and only recently have federal agencies gotten involved.

Edit: autocorrect aneurysm

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not suggesting the mass media coverage of things that are super clearly airplanes and helicopters yet the journalists give it a “I can’t see the American livery, run the same story again!” is clearly bad faith journalism to try to drown out support for a class war, I’m saying that’s what it is

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I watched a clip from some local news outlet the other day, where they spent like 10 minutes talking to these concerned citizens, and at the end they said that these people they'd been talking to hadn't even seen a drone! They were just very concerned.

WTF!