• star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    This is not something the US would ever use.

    The US is the only country to use nuclear weapons in war, killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians. For no better reason than they wanted to see what nukes would do and/or ending the war before the Soviets jumped in.

    The US also engaged in terrorism via the Contras in Nicaragua. They engaged in the systematic torture, murder and sexual violence against thousands of men, women, and children. Many of them tortured and killed in the most gruesome ways possible.

    The US helped Indonesia kill a million innocent people in the mid 60s.

    I could go on, but you get the idea. So somehow using some sort of ray that disorients people and makes them forgetful is beyond the pale for the US?

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This shit drives me crazy, we don't even need to look that far into the past.

      Literally their last week in Afghanistan US droned ten Afghan people (adults were aid workers), didn't even kill a "bad guy", and then after investigation said there had been no wrong doing (just "mistakes").

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      How do they know so much about an attack that the public and most agencies don't know about? Seems like a giveaway that they ought to be black sited.

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    "iT hItS eVeRyOnE iN aN eMbAsSy", the liberal drooled, completely ignoring the fact that Havana syndrome had never been reported by anybody except US government officials who wanted to call in sick that day, something that would have led to no small amount of eyebrow-raising amongst people possessing a less wormy mind than his. "iT iS a NoNdIsCrImInAtInG aTtAcK", the state department pet gasped, taken aback by the total lack of national chauvinism exhibited by a weapon that could also be aimed at white people, so unlike their beloved discriminating attacks that only affected muslim POC with the same GPS movement profile as an ISIS pizza delivery guy. "aS bArBaRiC aS eXpLoDiNg a dIrTy bOmB tO kIlL 1 person" the dronie blathered, referencing his favorite work of theory, Tom Clancy's Operation Lard Goblin.

    • OgdenTO [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It has hit other people, including children of officials from the US and canada, and there is reported and documented brain damage.

      Saying that, it's most likely insecticide sprays.

      I don't know where this "it's a hangover excuse" gibberish comes from but it's not that. It's certainly not a weapon or sonic gun or microwaves or whatever, but it's not nothing -- at least in some cases.

          • OgdenTO [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            There are both Canadian and American journal articles published with MRI brain imaging comparisons.

            Now, I'm not saying all of the cases are real -- but I believe that some have actual damage, and maybe others are psychosomatic or straight up lying to take advantage of it.

            • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              My thoughts exactly. I think the origins of it track with people being accidentally exposed to insecticides in certain embassies years back when the embassies were treating for Zika, and those were the ones who genuinely had symptoms/ brain damage of some kind.

              The rest...not so much.

  • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Havana syndrome? Have they tried havan-a fucking girlfriend lmfao

    -soufatlantasanta

    Thank God for the troops :07: :antifa-supersoldier:

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    The KGB, using indiscriminate counter-espionage attacks such ass...checks notes Getting right up to a guy and poking him with a poison umbrella.

    • nohaybanda [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That was Bulgarian secret service, IIRC. But the point stands.

  • steve5487 [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    the KGB does not exist anymore so it's weird how they still manage to do things like this

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    This is distcinctly KGB in style.

    Oh, you sure? Nah I think it's more Stasi in style honestly. Maybe ASALA now that I really think about it. I guess it could be DGSE.

    This is what happens when you only learn about KGB from the vidya.

  • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Dear lord I know we say this all the time but how does someone have brainworms this bad!!!

    We would never do this FUCK man we blow up weddings and hospitals!!!

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    What I want to know is, where is the demographic of people who believe in Havana Syndrome but attribute it to a paranormal source? There's gotta be somebody out there thinking like, "Smh this is what happens when you don't have the right crystals."

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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      3 years ago

      There's gotta be a grift in there somewhere to sell crystals or whatever that "deflect negative energy such as targeted microwave attacks" that's all I'm saying.