:mission-accomplished-1: :mission-accomplished-2:

  • ComRed2 [any]
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    1 year ago

    US tracked the balloon since launch

    So the US was in fact spying on China.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    most of :amerikkka: now hates China even more

    most of america thinks everyone who isn't american is subhuman, so how can you tell the difference

    • CTHlurker [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You're giving the hogs too much credit. They ALSO think like half of America is subhuman (mostly the brown and black parts, but also a surprising amount of mayo-on-mayo dreams of violence).

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    They first said that they tracked it from launch and that they knew it was a spy balloon because of that, now they say that tracking it from launch shows it's a weather balloon. No words lmao. Only the US propaganda machine is capable of this shit talk.

    So the first balloon was the massive one from China, the second one was a US weather balloon, now only the third, octagonal shaped one is in question.

    :mission-accomplished-1::mission-accomplished-2:

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Do you have a link to an article saying that they're now admitting it was a weather balloon? WSJ propaganda article says it's a spy balloon still.

      • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        yeah we need receipts from a lib source so we can properly own the libs on things like this

        • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          I'm not gonna lie I am 100% looking for sources to show my coworkers (not all of them, just my buddies, who are nonetheless libs).

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          computer modeling conducted by The Washington Post

          :doubt:

          Lol, share the model results, please. Share the code, even!

    • newerAccountWhoDis [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Only the US propaganda machine is capable of this shit talk.

      I'm still not convinced they're too incompetent to differentiate

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    And of course the correction won't have nearly the same coverage as the initial "EVIL CHINESE COMMUNIST WINNIE THE POOH SPY EMP NUKE BALLOON"

    Lie loudly and correct quietly

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This new account suggests that the ensuing international crisis that has ratcheted up tensions between Washington and Beijing may have been at least partly the result of a mistake.

    I'm pretty sure it only ratcheted up tensions in America, China's response was more along the lines of :jesse-wtf:

  • btbt [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    America should become an international quarantine zone and no one who lives there should be allowed to communicate with people outside so that no one else ever has to hear their smooth brained opinions on geopolitics again

  • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    anyone dumb enough to fall for evil scary communist balloon should just fucking die tbh