• DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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      151 year ago

      It goes all the way to the 4chan ethos: I did it for the lulz.

      I’m sure that the US really is just horrific for the sake of horrific, and since our “culture” is determined by the bottom 10% of any given graduating class. They probably think being the asshole of the world is charming.

        • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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          301 year ago

          Word. The Blowback Podcast is also good as they cover some of the creation of Fort Detrick and a number of times the US has used biological warfare.

  • ☂️-
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    21 year ago

    we also got the ‘vaccines are a chinese ploy to implant microchips’ thing in brazil. and our fascist president at the time met with plenty of cia people.

    wouldn’t be surprised if that was us too.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    Why is everybody so upset? The CIA is morally neutral: this is just to offset the good that they did by running that fake pro-vaccination campaign in Pakistan.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      231 year ago

      Man I wonder what kind of political messaging would be getting spread by American military contractors that were given carte blanche to do whatever the fuck they wanted in service to an operation literally designed to kill innocent people to spite their socialist geopolitical rival

      hitler-detector also, why does this keep beeping

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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    771 year ago

    Lmao. The reasoning is ChIna used social media to urge investigation of Fort Detrick, so the US military ran an Anti-Vaxx campaign in a 3rd party country. Pretty standard US response tbh. amerikkka-clap

    Also, if they’re claiming China is behind the Fort Detrick lab leak theory, that bumps up its legitimacy in my eyes.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      151 year ago

      I was skeptical about the Fort Detrick lab leak theory for a while, but when Biden stopped pushing the Wuhan lab leak theory the second China said “sure, you can investigate the Wuhan lab if we can investigate Fort Detrick”, that made me a lot more suspicious

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      711 year ago

      Also, also, I read some of that DOJ complaint and they also claim that China tried to sow discourse by posting about George Floyd and American hypocrisy. Which is pretty wild how even according to the US, US enemies are always like “and this bad thing the US is doing is bad and you should do something about that” while the US is like “we will provide arms and training for death squads for capitalism.”

      Really drives the point home, imo.

      • Diuretic_Materialism [he/him]
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        311 year ago

        Counterpoint: I actually think a lot of these ghouls are 100% self aware, know their the bad guys but just love all the power and treats they get. I suspect they literally cackle like Lord Freeza in the privacy of their own homes while loudly announcing their cynical Machiavellian plans to nobody.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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      351 year ago

      “What are we, a bunch of Asians?!” is the most bipartisan phrase in Amerika.

      maybe-later-honey says it in response to whenever they need to accept the fact that yes, Amerika did do a bad thing.

      frothingfash says it in response to you suggesting the simplest, most objectively good policy like high speed rail or walkable cities.