On one hand, there are mentally ill people out there who will believe things like that - it looks like some of the audience bought into it - so I can understand why the host wasn't sure if McIndoe truly believed it.

On the other hand, either the people who invited him onto the show were playing a prank on Hegseth or they didn't do even a modicum of research - it's not like this is a new movement.

On the secret third hand that humans all have, I hope the commenters here on the sift who also claim birds aren't real stop doing so - it's only feeding into the birdbrains' delusion. This paragraph was not written under duress, and there are no starlings in the room here with me.

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Good idea, but my parents would never have allowed that.

The house was a glass showcase, and my mom a perfectionist (which sucked to live under as a child). They paid a maintenance man to wash those windows regularly, a monumental task because some rooms like the living room had 20 ft ceilings with floor to ceiling glass walls! (Better, from the outside that room’s floor was 10+ ft off the ground, so he needed a 30 ft ladder!)
Just to attract more birds I guess, it also had a plant filled atrium in the center of the house with multiple full sized pine trees growing through the roof, so birds were tricked further into thinking nothing was there. My parents apparently didn’t consider the effects on wildlife when they built it, only their 360 degree views of it.

We moved out in around 82, and today it’s largely been rebuilt with a lot of the exterior glass removed.

I grew up in a 90% glass house in a forest.
This happened daily when birds tried to fly through the invisible walls.
It was a jump scare every time when the wall suddenly gonged like they’d been hit with a mallet, drawing your attention to the often fluttering bird dropping.
I loved that house, but hated it every time that happened. 🙁

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It would be even more hilarious if behind the blurred pixels, Spock was actually giving the Vulcan Salute but the clueless SW fans mistook Spock was flipping them the Bird.

What about birds that are shaped like cars?

Flying cars are real. Birds aren't real.

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