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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Earth unity. Whatever they did to make humans stop attacking each other was crazy.

We probably need another species to compete against to unite us. I'd put Billions into nasa to find aliens so we can fight them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

We probably need another species to compete against to unite us.

Nah, the US would use it as an excuse to demand a world government under their control.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

If we controlled the world government, then what are all these politicians who run on a platform of exposing the secret government that already controls the world going to do?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I'm only downvoting you because that's basically what OP said, not be cause you're wrong.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Another species is very useful for unity, not necessarily for us to band together against, but because a proper intelligent alien kind of invalidates every religion. All the conflicts from culture clashing suddenly become pointless.

Or at least racists will have something else to look down on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Throughout history men have joined with their enemies to kill their neighbors. Cortez had an army of native Americans with him to take down the Aztecs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

That Venutian amoeba will have to take one for the team. OUR team.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

When the aliens show up and demand who's responsible for why our societies are such shitshows, all we have to do is point towards the fancy neighborhoods

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Dump all the billions into AI controlled nuclear weapons

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Now Mr Ozymandius with this one cool trick you don't even need to find the aliens.