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Depends on your definition of "controversial", for which I have two.
It's pretty much my singular strongly held conservative viewpoint, and as such one I've been open to frequently challenging throughout the years. I've heard out all the arguments against it: it costs the taxpayer too much money, sometimes people sentenced to death were actually innocent, the state shouldn't be granted that amount of power to begin with, etc etc...
But to me, it's always come down to an argument of morality. "Is it right to take another life, even if that life may endanger or harm others?" And this is usually where I would insert a thoughtful and nuanced philosophical paragraph or two to support my viewpoint...
But ever since all this Epstein shit has gone on to continuously spew out each day I've pretty much just been taking a well-deserved victory lap lol (Btw, I'm out of the loop... did Jizzstain ever end up successfully petitioning for her release after a few months of hugging puppies in max security?)
Warning to alien enthusiasts: This is the Santa's-not-real equivalent of ruining your childhood (so if you love the idea of little green men, just keep your mystery)
So a long time ago, I read a really obscure publication discussing the nuances behind famous "alien sightings", that halfway through makes the bombshell reveal that a majority of the so-called UFOs were mostly Russian spy technology, which coincides with a lot of certain historical events, ie. things like Roswell at the start of the Cold War, as well as "what they're hiding" in Area 51... etc. Essentially, the whole "little green men" / "the grays" mysticism can be chocked up to a cover-up government conspiracy. "Oh no, you can't go in there! There's uh... secret aliens!! And UFOs!! Top Secret."
The only time in my personal life I can ever recall having experienced a genuine UFO sighting (where I saw round lights rotating in a circle above cloud cover right over our building in broad daylight) was once as a kid while visiting my relatives... in Donetsk. So yeah, it kind of checks out. And going off of US history in general, I wouldn't put it past them that it's far more likely that most UFO "abductees" with PTSD were actually abducted and brainwashed by the government, especially since they've done that sort of thing before...
It's kind of a shitty reveal. But hey, don't let me ruin aliens for you, as even though little green men may be a complete fabrication (and seems way more obvious once you stop and think about how simplistic their design is lol...), that doesn't necessarily equate to disproving all possibility of alien life. Just like with religion, you can't really prove a negative. Fermi's Paradox and all that.
So there's technically no real evidence that extraterrestrial life couldn't exist... Even if there's a 99% chance that any strange things you've personally encountered wasn't actually aliens, lol
If the US government did have tech for UFOS that would be a very significant technological development that they're hiding from the public. So how far are you willing to go with the hidden tech side of this conspiracy? Do you think the government has free energy and they’re hiding it too, or are they only hiding these novel means of propulsion?
You think they're clever enough to reverse-engineer something that crashed 80 years ago? lmfao
Wait, I thought you were tryna say that there are no aliens and its all secret government tech. Maybe I misunderstood