Nobody could have predicted this. I have my doubts even when they call it “spying equipment” or whatever considering Chinese claim it was a meteorological balloon, certainly no doubt they would try to paint those tools as such.
article is about how it wasn’t actually spying
Constantly refers to it as Chinese spy balloon
Fucking liars are STILL saying it was a spy balloon when the military is like no, actually, it wasn’t.
You clearly didn’t read the article. It WAS a spy balloon but it appears the spy equipment wasn’t turned on. So no information was gathered.
the article presents zero evidence that it’s a “spy balloon”, just some dipshit general saying that it is. we know the U.S. military regularly lies about its enemies, so his word is worth nothing
did you ever stop to ask why a supposed “spy balloon” would be so large and easily noticed?
Somehow we’ve managed to find the first human being to function without a single neuron firing.
A brain exists, but nothing is occuring within. No electrical signals, no neural activity.
And yet they manage to post anyway
The article makes no claim as to the nature of the balloon. The author is very careful about that. It’s a balloon that didn’t collect any intelligence nor transmit any data. How, exactly, would you define a spy balloon? It’s starting to sound like your threshold for “spy balloon” is “launched by some Chinese person,” which is probably more than a little racist.
Reminder that the missile they used to shoot this balloon down cost $400k
And in the immense wave of paranoia afterwards they shot down three American weather balloons at the cost of 400k per missile plus fuel and maintenance and man hours.
They love to talk all that shit about “our missiles are so accurate that we can hit a ladybug” or some such level of nonsense. Which all of a sudden goes away every time that it is shown how many more people were killed while trying to get one person.
Name a president in the past century that wouldn’t have done the exact same thing.
This is actually the most American thing Biden has ever done lol
Is that before or after the flight time on the plane they launched it from?
That’s just the direct cost of the missile itself. The cost of flying the $200m jet I’m unsure of!
The DoD is the world’s largest employer with 2.9 million employees as of June 2022. Besides its direct function of projecting US power, it is also functionally a jobs program. The US is ideologically prohibited from handing out money for free via welfare programs, they must maintain the ideology of capitalism, by creating pointless work by which these people can “earn” the money. It is of zero consequence that each missile costs so many dollars. The whole point of its manufacture was to pay the workers and to allow the military-industrial capitalists to skim excess off the top of this waste. It’s a sham but it is a little more complicated than just lighting $400k on fire. That money was already spent, and they want these missiles used in order to justify their replacement. As an additional benefit, each of these 2.9 million employees is heavily propagandized by the state department every day at work.
Long-term, it benefits the US if the industry and its warfighters are permanently ready to fight a war.
I don’t agree with any of it btw, just adding some context.
Here we go. This is the “retraction” they do 6 months after flooding the headlines with bullshit, this way they can say that they “correct themselves” and are therefore unbiased.
Of course, even this headline is still implying it is a “spy balloon” so they can technically correct wrong information they put out while also knowing that 90% of their audience will never read it, but will believe them when they say they are “unbiased” for correcting themselves.
I can’t imagine how anyone with a soul and brain could be a western journalist at this point, you must be lacking one of those two things. They’re shadier and more dishonest than lawyers.
literal weather balloon and the sensors weren’t even on lmao
“freight truck of spy equipment”
