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In June, Rep. Eric Burlison, a Missouri Republican serving on the House Oversight Committee, appeared on BlazeTV’s Prime Time with Alex Stein, where he discussed his belief that giants once existed. Burlison told Stein he was scheduled to be at “NephCon 2025,” a conference focused on fringe topics including the biblical Nephilim —figures in Genesis that some interpret as the giant offspring of angels and human women.

He credited Timothy Alberino’s podcast with sending him “far down the rabbit hole,” eventually reaching claims that the Smithsonian Institution is hiding evidence, the bones of past giants that lived on the Earth. Burlison suggested that, as a member of the Oversight Committee, he could investigate the Smithsonian.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The dumbest people in the country are now running things.

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's because of the wealth. You don't have to be smart to have money.

[–] jared@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

Greed is a whole other beast.

It's all just distraction. Keeps your mind off the fact that the billionaire class are destroying the world and enslaving us all.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

pinch bridge of nose... deep breath

How the fuck is the left losing to literal insane people and morons. How the fuck are there DOZENS, if not hundreds, of people sitting in the highest positions of our government who believe 1000% in actually certifiable conspiracy theories about giants, space lasers, weather machines, chem trails, microchips vaccines, 5G mind control/Covid generation, and virgins blood drinking rituals... and yet we are still debating the democrats based on high brow merit.

I fucking hate these people, but I really hate all of the mother fucking morons and degenerates that helped put them into these positions more. And that includes all of you dumbasses that just didnt vote for Kamala whether willfully or apathetically. I have no love for the woman either, but come the fuck on. Look what the fuck you have done. I'm so tired of pretending that any of this shit is abnormal and temporary and will be reigned in. There is no end in sight, and seems only likely to get way worse. Fuck all of you shortsighted, idiotic and hateful assholes. You did this and now we all suffer because of it.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How the fuck is the left losing to literal insane people and morons.

The left usually doesn't get to run. The center keeps losing to literal insane people and morons.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

And the center is really another name for status quo or no change, but no one gets elected for saying they want to do nothing, so they claim "centrism" for palatability

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's because you won't run for political office.

It's that lack of action.

Oh, we all agree with your words. It's not about consensus.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I live in Indiana in a hard red district. If I thought there was even a chance, I'd seriously be considering it. I couldn't even manage to get to city council here though. Half of the local elections dont even have a Dem or independent running because there is no chance for it. Your name has an R next to it or you fuck off with your maybe 15 percent.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

You know why it’s a hard red district?

Because there’s no one running independent who is even attempting to phone it in.

It’s like that all over, including where I live.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

In America the left lost due to two things:

An industrial and computer revolution that redistributed most of the population over two generations. This broke the grassroots movement mechanism the civil rights and later efforts depended on. Internet chat rooms were not a replacement.

Allowing the people in power to count votes and decide who won elections over 30 years

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

How the fuck is the left losing to literal insane people and morons.

The size and scale of media available to the Silicon Valley tech sector has afforded them enormous leverage over modern Americans and their view of the world. "The Giant of Kandahar" is one example of a mythology that helps explain why Americans lost in Afghanistan, without ceding that our whole 23 year occupation was a mix of waste and incompetence. It's one part engagement-bait, one part conspiracy theory, and one part evangelical propaganda (the Giant is further embellished as a Nephilim, thus proving we were fighting a Holy War overseas and not just engaged in an opium-laced land grab).

I fucking hate these people, but I really hate all of the mother fucking morons and degenerates that helped put them into these positions more. And that includes all of you dumbasses that just didnt vote for Kamala

The claim that Kamala Harris lost because she was stabbed in the back by far-left, transgender, pro-Putin antisemites is its own brand of BlueMAGA mythology and serves much the same purpose as the dogmatic superstition on the right.

You did this and now we all suffer because of it.

The folks leading the charge are the billionaires profiting off the exploitation. They aren't suffering. They're getting sucked off at orgies full of sex trafficking victims imported from countries - like Israel and El Salvador and Japan and German - where we've built up a large military presence for the purpose of exploitation.

Everyone else is told that they either need to throw their support behind this rapist pig wanna-be Mussolini or the AIPAC-aligned insurance company ghoul, because failing to support My Team means you deserve whatever misery is inflicted by Their Team.

Somehow, the pain we all end up experiencing from outside the corporate walled garden is always either Fake News (when My Team is Winning) or Your Own Stupid Fault (when Their Team is Winning).

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[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He's from Missouri. There are certain states where they don't spend enough on public education, and it shows.

[–] itsworkthatwedo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Show-Me State. "Show me you're not hiding giant bones."

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

WARES BIGFOOT

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is what religious colleges teach. Any weird religious bullshit they want. As if it were reality. To kids/young adults in school.

You get an extra 20 points if you said "gawd did it" and why: "cuz' fictional gawds can do anything!"

No really. That's how religious schools grade things. Now for an extra five points, draw a picture of jebus' asshole.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Now for an extra five points, draw a picture of jebus' asshole.

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[–] ghost9@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

They aren't hiding them... They are in the dinosaur exibit. Under "Dinosaur"

[–] DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Religious assholes want to rename dinosaur bones as "biblical Giant Human bones".

Because, yes, they are that stupid. Please stop pretending they aren't.

Also: Release Epstein Files. This is not a distraction.

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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

HEY!

SHUT UP!

^Let_him_go_spend_40_months_looking_for_it^

Y'ALL, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[–] pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can we also ask him to keep an eye out for info about the Egyptian Tribe who settled the Grand Canyon while he's looking around?

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[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They're Christo-Fascists, so the obvious answer is "to deny God." That's what it all boils down to. That's the only possible end it could ever serve and their base will devour it.

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[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 week ago

They're pointing at the Nephilim, the angel/human hybrids that were walking around smashing everyone's stuff before Noah's Flood.

Yeah, I don't think these people should be allowed near the power of government, either.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish Republicans would work only on giants and UFOs, and not on fascism.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

The sad part is they know the giants and UFOs are fake but talk about this stuff to avoid talking about gutting medicare, tax cuts for the rich, and how they're currently covering up the epstein files.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have they read a description of an angel ever? They're like flaming wheels made of eyes and shit, I'm pretty sure we would have insane stories of part human part wagon wheel motherfuckers wandering about.

[–] aow@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just a heads up about the biblically accurate angels meme, the word for eyes also translates to lights. It's more fun to pretend that it's eyes but they were just describing their DBZ auras.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It could also be used for either or technically both but even ignoring that they're usually all wings or all wheels.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (19 children)

And Rep. Anna Paulina Luna was just on Joe Rogan saying she recently saw proof of non-human UFOs. And that UFOs are from interdimensional beings.

[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

The alien shit makes me wanna vomit. It clearly is a planned future attack by our government or a foreign government that they want to blame on aliens. MAGA think the aliens are their friends and will save them. It's really not good and I hope that plan never reaches fruition.

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[–] who@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

Surely he means figurative giants, as in "standing on the shoulders of giants", right?

Right?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Okay why not, but release the Epstein files first then we can talk

[–] ShittDickk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

They're gonna make the Ark Museum grifters the new curators arent they.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Giant of Kandahar is modern US military folklore.

Part of how we explain away why Americans with cutting edge technology couldn't successfully grind down the Afghan resistance over 23 years.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

You know what. I hope this is true.

Like imagine in the middle of all this bullshit the Smithsonian is just like "ok yeah you got us, giants are real and we have their bones" that would be so fucking wild.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone those are frost giants! Praise Odin! We should name a day after him. Maybe in the middle of the week.

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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nephilim? Like Diablo III nephilim? Fucking weirdo

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (6 children)

No, probably biblical nephilim.

Offspring of humans and angels if I remember right.

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[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

What a fucking moron

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah sure, where else would you hide this sort of things?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago
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