https://archive.md/WdjvF

I didn't read it because I don't care. Critical support if true.

My parents watch 60 Minutes because they are old. The whole show tonight was devoted to this story.

Didn't congress already give them a blank check for any medical care they need and stuff? What do they want? Our credulity? Our sympathy?

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      3 months ago

      Yes lol. The agencies have gone out to say there’s no evidence to indicate foul play. The only people talking about Havana Syndrome is the media lol

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
    hexbear
    46
    3 months ago

    How come no one is talking about the elite North Korean assassination Unit 80085 making my wife divorce me and take the kids?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    hexbear
    40
    3 months ago

    Isn't it just a week or something ago that they released a study that concluded Havana syndrome to be bullshit?

    frothingfash

    Evil Putler fucked up my brain with a commie sci-fi raygun!

    It's amazing they still stick to this QAnon level conspiracy theory. It's ridiculous the moment you give it even the tiniest amount of thought.

    • @Farvana@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      24
      3 months ago

      It's projection. The US tried to make one, along with bombs that turn everyone gay and hallucinogenic mind control. We are fucking stupid.

    • NPa [he/him]
      hexbear
      13
      3 months ago

      Feel like they've gone back and forth like five times now.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    40
    3 months ago

    one time I was doing sex to a woman with big boobs and I was doing it really good when Russian super spies used their brain rays on me and it made me think about my dad's balls and then I shidded and farted all over the back seat of my mom's teal 1992 Ford Escort Wagon.

    can't wait for my six figure media "expert" sinecure to start.

  • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
    hexbear
    39
    3 months ago

    My parents were watching the same special lmao.

    It was funny when they sprinkled in a couple of sentences about "well there's no real evidence from the medical establishment" and then cutting back to national security guys going "nah it's definitely real even though we have no proof"

    It really bothered me they didn't even say the sentence "psychosomatic illness". Also all the glossing over about what exactly the FBI were doing abroad (CIA goes abroad, not FBI supposedly)

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      One agent interviewee described how it affected her life.

      "It felt like there were waves pulsing through my body."

      Gosh. I'm really sorry you were mildly uncomfortable. This is a public health issue that needs my attention?

      • Rojo27 [he/him]
        hexbear
        32
        3 months ago

        Taking COVID seriously geordi-no

        Taking fake fed sickness seriously geordi-yes

      • emizeko [they/them]
        hexbear
        10
        3 months ago

        ghoul experiences fear at unfamiliar sensation of having a heartbeat

  • SoyViking [he/him]
    hexbear
    34
    3 months ago

    If I was a Russian or Chinese diplomat I would go to a toy store and buy a space gun with flashing lights that goes "pew-pew". I would bring it to embassy parties and point it at Americans while laughing.

  • @HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
    hexbear
    31
    3 months ago

    I heard a few minutes of it. They had someone who experienced it, and went on on how they figured it must be some enemy act immediately.

    No, honey, you have surprise neurological symptoms, you go to the fucking hospital. Once they've figured out for sure that you're having an active stroke, then you can call the spooks.

    It seems like building a billion-rouble Death Ray LiteTM and blasting rays to incapicate embassy staff is an awfully scattershot and Rube Goldberg solution for a problem that could be solved by setting up, say, an "auto accident" or "robbery breakin" to put a vital staffer out of commission.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      The whole 60 Minutes piece was full of blatant contradictions and suspect investigative work. Examples:

      1. Some intelligence asshole who's convinced this is a Russian attack (and who they later reveal has started a private company marketing something to Havana Syndrome havers, hmm no bias there) said they're targeting only upper-echelon U.S. personnel. They go on to interview the wife of some DOJ guy in Germany and talk about another "incident" at a NATO conference where Biden and Zelensky were present. So spouses of lawyers are upper-echelon targets now? And they used their undetectable mind ray on some diplomat at this NATO conference, but not Biden or Zelensky?
      2. The lawyer's wife, whose incident occurred around 2014, was given a photo of some Russian teenager 60 Minutes has connected to this. Dude looks like a million other teenagers you can find throughout Europe. She's convinced this is the guy she saw outside her house a decade ago. Just an absurdly unreliable identification.
    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
      hexagon
      hexbear
      20
      3 months ago

      some enemy

      Some "expert" guest explicitly blamed Russia.

    • JustSo [she/her, any]
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      3 months ago

      awfully scattershot and Rube Goldberg solution

      Classic CIA projection, in other words. fidel-cool

    • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
      hexbear
      9
      3 months ago

      you have surprise neurological symptoms, you go to the fucking hospital

      Something something sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
    hexbear
    30
    3 months ago

    broke: havana syndrome is real

    woke: havana syndrome isn't real

    bespoke: it sucks that havana syndrome isn't real

    Death to America

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]
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    3 months ago

    My shitty conspiracy theory on Havana syndrome is that some CIA dickhead got super hungover and they had to make bullshit up to cover their ass and some higher up drank the kool aid for funding purposes.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexbear
      20
      3 months ago

      Oh man! Havana Syndrome is back and its in Pog form!

      So excited to see where we go with this.

  • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]
    hexbear
    24
    3 months ago

    This is so fucking stupid. I love that in libs minds, cold war geopolitics are unchanged and Russia and Cuba are bffs to the point Cuba will let them experiment with unknown weapons on government officials. Insane.

  • edge [he/him]
    hexbear
    23
    3 months ago

    They’re still on that shit? I thought it was acknowledged as obvious bullshit and just swept under the rug a while ago.