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Very click-bait of them to use a still video thumbnail of the massive Chinese surveillance balloon of last year.
by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Very click-bait of them to use a still video thumbnail of the massive Chinese surveillance balloon of last year.
- pelagicAustral 3y agoCompletely memoryholed that incident. Was it Chinese then, I'm guessing they confirmed that after all.
- bombcar 3y agoIt was Chinese and (eventually) admitted such - the dispute was over what exactly it was doing.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoMainstream media both needs outrage for engagement and to stoke "yellow menace" flames to characterize 2 billion people as a "threat" and manufacture consent to appease the powers that be to make the case for expanded military-industrial complex spending instead of healthcare.
- wakawaka28 3y agoWell there is some positioning going on for a possible war. The Chinese balloon was part of it. Stop trying to act like China is innocent and minding their business. They are not. They have a hundred year plan for global supremacy and the US has been falling for it, unwittingly. How many factories were sent overseas so we could have a "service economy" of OnlyFans and Uber? For all this talk of healthcare, we don't even make most of our own medicine. Much of it comes from China and friendly countries in the vicinity of China. I'm frankly amazed that the geniuses in Washington allowed this to happen. Someone must have warned them it was a bad idea.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoOnlyFans? Christ. Tell us how you really feel. Wait, don’t.
- wakawaka28 3y agoI feel like my country has been sold out and continues to be dismantled by corrupt politicians. Most of the West is in the same situation. Unless something changes, we're screwed.
- kobalsky 3y agothat balloon wasn’t a toy either. the payload was the size of a bus
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