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   寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 05-Feb-2023 14:01:26 JST 寮
   People talk about that "Chinese spy balloon" thing so much, I just took a look just to see what they're all talking about, because at first I thought it was just some internet meme.
   Based on my 30 second long research, I see it's yet another distraction psyop, not worth anybody's time at all.
   
   If it were real:
   1. How would they be able to accurately steer it to the opposite side of a massive ocean?
   2. If it got across the ocean, how does it still float?
   3. What's even the point of spying on random places and random people they (legally speaking) have no juristiction over?
   4. Why would they worry about what Americans are doing if they are already occupied enough with what Chinese people are doing, which they can actually control (again, legally speaking)?
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     Wrongthink (wrongthink@cdrom.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 06-Feb-2023 09:28:22 JST Wrongthink

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     @ryo

     People talk about … see what they’re all talking about

     I have found that this is one of the strongest predictors of a media psyop campaign. When all of a sudden, everyone around you in public is parroting some current event story or tagline. Especially considering most people would never actively seek out information on such subject matter on their own.

     I would like to propose an additional point:

     1. Why would the Chinese need to resort to aerospace when they can just check their servers that have been collecting data from all the zoombies phones?
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