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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, any contact will shift the me vs them mentality, hopefully, from country vs country to world vs world.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

True. I wasn’t debating that, just saying if they’re going to sit back and watch us boil alive, they’re useless and not worth considering. We’ve got existential problems.

e: I see what you’re saying – maybe if we learnt we’re not the centre of the universe we’d come together. I guess I’m a cynic and I don’t think that would happen. We’d more likely enter new holy wars, with the major religions disrupting society again. Meanwhile, we’d still boil alive.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Screw that, if they have the tech to reach us I am with them. I for one welcome our new alien overlords. I can be the Dr. Breen to their Combine.

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

If they allow it? Fuck yeah I'm trying to get on a spaceship with em. But there's a chance they just don't want us with them