• JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    6 months 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.

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      6 months 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.

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      6 months 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