Well, COVID has already shown us what really happens when a greater force comes and threatens humanity…
but consider that diseases do not have a physical form that we are able to shoot at
I maintain if Covid made the same kind of blisters as something like cowpox (which may also become a pandemic at some point) or had any other kind of physical, outward appearance-changing effects, we would have had hundreds of millions of people throwing themselves at the CDC begging for masks and vaccinations.
Our species doesn’t deal with “invisible” threats very well. We have vastly overestimated our species’ ability to rationalize past monkey-senses and instincts.
“[out group] isn’t doing their part in defending against this threat!”
“We need to give these [threat] sympathizers equal air time.”
“Doesn’t [threat] deserve rights?”
Ronald Reagan, is that you?
Colonization 101.
Say you’re a conquer and you pull up on an island with three tribes. The Lions are 75% of the population and control 95% of the wealth; the Tigers are 22% and control 4%. The Bears are 3% of the people and have 1% of the wealth.
You, the colonizer, give the Bears weapons and let them keep 2% of the money. You keep 98%.
The Lions and Tigers hate the Bears way more than they hate you.
This is why I’ve been saying furries are dangerous for years now.
Wait, where’s the part where Joe Rogan joins forces with the alien after “doing his own research”?
Isn’t this the plot of Watchmen?
Spoilers
It’s the last couple pages of Watchmen, not really the plot overall. It’s the villain’s secret end goal that wasn’t really foreshadowed very well? (The movie tried to do better in this regard)
I thought it was foreshadowed in retrospect, like, you’re not supposed to figure it out in advance but when you look back you see all the clues and pieces and that it was there the whole time
It kind of was, but only if you already know what Alan Moore was smoking.
Alan Moore would like a word with you.
Obviously this is not based on Alan Moore’s work, there’s no sexual assault in it.
Do you think his work glorified sexual assault? Or just portrayed? Or are we past even that kind of differentiation now?
If there’s one thing I don’t criticize Moore for it’s having his men with power act like men with power
Extremely valuable intel here. A tentacle could actually produce a thumbs-up gesture, if you think about it.
10 min after defeating the aliens: Get off my lawn!!!
They will fight about who of them offed the aliens and won: Someone definitely did more than the rest, and this someone is most obviously me! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ
Robbers Cave experiment, anyone?
