• HumongousChungus [she/her]
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    1 day ago

    See, some things aren't proper secrets, but when acknowledging them is made taboo, we must act as if they've been uncovered. We'll treat the ostensibly open and accessible science around linearly increasing Long COVID risk this way someday, when the taboo against acknowledging it degrades. More often than not, when the exposé revealing details of an open secret comes out like this, it's because someone involved feels the need to brag.

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, it's kind of funny how the narrative has gone from

      There are no CIA bases in Ukraine

      There might be CIA bases in Ukraine, but only because of the current war and they haven't done any fighting

      There have been CIA bases in Ukraine since Russia took Crimea

      There have been CIA bases since 2015, shortly after the coup

      There have been CIA bases before the coup, but they didn't do anything about the coup