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?

  • 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.

  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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

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        along with bombs that turn everyone gay

        Damn, that’s really taking rainbow imperialism to the extreme.

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    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)

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    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.

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    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.

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

      In USA? They would only give you more symptoms once you see the bill

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

      Something something sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids

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    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.

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    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.

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