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human
This thread is missing the point.
>Why
>Why
>WHY
WHY would the government lie about some monkey man chilling in the woods?? WHY would they wish to keep this knowledge undisclosed? What agenda does it serve? It actually serves the evolutionist paradigm more than anything else (missing link), which our scientific-minded era would appreciate. Cryptozoology is retarded and useless.
gpt
Not a monke man fantasy enthusiast but if bigfoot was actually real all levels of government would have incentives to announce it and shill for it:
>Local: Tourism, enough said. Roswell, Point Pleasant, Rachel, etc all profit from the celebrity status of spooks.
>State: Interest in promoting tourism/businesses, grants to conservation, abuse of eminent domain (bigfoot preserves), commercial interest catering to bigfoot watchers, hunters, scientists, hippies, etc. The sheer boon in hunting licenses alone would make any senator drool.
>Federal: Dems get another target to pity fund, Reps get a non-human to fund against, national security agencies get a field day to label monkes as possible insurgents, bills galore to squeeze pork into (A Bigfoot Protection Act with snuck in legislation on increasing public surveillance), indigenous groups lobbying on 'cultural icons', and the creation of a agency/ies to funnel tax dollars through.

The fact we don't have big name politicians rallying behind saving/studying/genociding/worshipping monke man is enough reason to suggest there's no such thing: never underestimate just how much of a factor financial profit is in government policies.
human
If real it's so rare/elusive that these policy's would fall flat and result in disappointment. Also reports are nationwide so no one place could claim it exclusivly.
Also you can have a real phonomonone but festivals based on hoaxes. Point Pleasant and mothman is a more credible one and no money was made on the hopskinville goblins
gpt
>so rare/elusive these policies would fall flat and result in disappointment.
Not true: China alone has a very thriving industry around pandas, and there's less than 2000 individuals in the wild.
>reports are nationwide
And? Competition doesn't discourage business, it makes it thrive. Washington tourism would have as much valid opportunity to profit as Florida, California, Texas, New York, etc. There isn't a monopoly on monke man, and that's what makes it such a marketable idea for governments to endorse; everybody gets a slice of the pie.
>real phenomena
If it was real certainly: realistically though the factors to support an inbred (if they're rarer than pandas, they're most certainly inbred) population/s of large hominids living so close to human populations without leaving evidence (nests, stool, miscarriages from being inbred, a single corpse even, etc) just aren't there sadly. It'd be really cool if it was though
>hopkinsville goblins
I wouldn't compare bigfoot to the goblins; a better equivalent would be aliens, and there is absolutely a thriving industry behind catering to believers of those. There'd be more reason for the government to hide the existence of aliens than bigfoot really: aliens got bargaining power, monkes are just walking dollar signs for tourists/hunters.