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And they said we should just accept it on their credibility.

I had the occasion to look this up again, so I thought I should post it for more than the shitlib I got it for (so now it's also for the three of you sorting by new at this hour)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

When it first hit the news I was talking to a friend who works at US embassies and I cracked a joke about it. He got really offended and insisted he had really good evidence he couldn't share for security reasons that it was real.

A few months later he apologized.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A few months later he apologized.

How hard did you laugh? I wouldn't have been able to hold back

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that hard. He did admit he was wrong after all.

I just found it delightful to have a concrete example of internet shitposts having a better understanding of geopolitics than state department briefings.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I just found it delightful to have a concrete example of internet shitposts having a better understanding of geopolitics than state department briefings.

chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

insisted he had really good evidence he couldn't share for security reasons

So now we know for sure that anyone who says this is telling a "My uncle works at Nintendo" tier lie. If you cant show us, theres no use bringing it up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Honestly just shocked he admitted to it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's wild to me how long they held on to that one for, tbh

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

the real question is what sort of directed energy fuckery are the US testing that has caused this amount of anxiety amongst their own people

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

they wanted it to be real so bad