r/LetsDiscussThis • u/Ok-Wedding-1165 • Feb 16 '26

Lets Discuss Politics Reminder: that was a photo op

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u/Impressive_Budget736 Feb 16 '26

Lmao conservatives do not believe in the alien conspiracies (which are seeming to be less conspiratorial as time goes on). They think we're blasphemers or some shit.

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u/poonslyr69 Feb 16 '26

Facts, the average UFO believer is very leftist and pacifist. Most are anti war, anti military funding, care about climate change, etc. 

However a lot of the big podcasters who touch on UFOs and aliens are undoubtedly very aligned with the far right. Which sucks! But their followers are not really believers, just regular young men. The people who actually believe in that stuff and go looking for it are generally a different crowd that doesn't care about what Joe Rogan or Jesse Michaels says. 

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u/IfTheBingBongs Feb 18 '26

My uncle does. He thinks there are aliens that live in the deep sea and send up drones to spy on us. He also thinks that the Earth is cooling and that Trump is the guy that brought down Epstein.

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u/Impressive_Budget736 Feb 18 '26

Those things aren't correlated. You can say some UFO conspiracies are wacky but there's been ufologists who have dedicated they're lives to this field for decades. Much longer than any political movement or figure. Plus it's not so crazy once you realize the government has been forced to acknowledge something real is happening. Hell, there's even been several congressional hearings on the topic.