Still convinced the whole thing was a retirement benefits scam started by a couple of agents years ago that got too big and out of hand.
Literally got the government to give them a small fortune because they were hungover at work one day, gotta admire the grift
Made it thru the House and Senate for what was such a laughably obvious grift
Wonder if they're going to just get more openly deranged with the requests
"Yeah, Tom had a shiver run down his spine once when he was stationed in South Korea ten years ago, so we think North Korea has a Focused Spectral Projection Beam they are using to haunt our agents"
Made it thru the House and Senate for what was such a laughably obvious grift
To be fair, it only took like an afternoon to pass
yeah wait, what the fuck happens with all that money? Wasn't some bill passed a while ago to support them financially somehow? Not sure if i fully remember it correctly
Most likely, symptoms were from buildings being fumigated at the time; you could even see it in articles around the time, because Trump originally suggested the insanity and got roundly mocked. Then Biden came in and uh....they started running with it after the admin just kept the course.
Fucking dipshits
The best explanation I've seen is mass hysteria following a few people suffering from pesticide poisoning from the mosquito control efforts the embassy was doing at the time, and a second wave of opiate withdrawal after the US lost control of Afghan poppy fields.
:padme: this means the spooks won't get money for this anymore, right?
So, despite this, what percentage of USians will continue to believe (or at least use in arguments) in the magic Russian headache gun? And why is it so alarmingly close to 100...
I literally quoted Darth Rumsfeld in 2011 saying, "well shucks turns out there weren't any" and it still didn't change their beliefs that the invasion was just, that we were disarming a dangerous dictator who was going to give WMD to Al-Qaeda.
Despite the fact that Arab nationalists and Islamists hate each other's guts.
You're always able to find the 2% that believe it on Reddit.
Poor Vice. They just started a new podcast about how the Havana Syndrome is real lol
Chris hayes just had a podcast episode all about Havana syndrome and i swear one of the guys on there must be a CIA spook trying to convince people this bullshit is real. https://twitter.com/allinwithchris/status/1629272212392882178
I think they realized how ridiculous it was a while ago, didn't they have multiple memos saying this essentially? I remember linking libs to them and I was told either that it's Russian disinformatsiya or that I'm gaslighting victims of havan syndrome lol
damn i wish i could read that on the other side of the paywall
So can we have our tax dollars back that went to the victims of Havana syndrome?
Years too late to actually matter whatsoever. In the public mind, this happened, and it will never be undone.
The relevance of this report is in being able to deny benefits.
Wuhan virus. Racist! Call it a completely artificial name!
Havana Syndrome: :joker-amerikkklap:
What the fuck is an “artificial” name? Do you not understand how language works? Or acronyms?
A made-up name? WHO created the name because "Wuhan virus" was catching on and demonyms for viruses are common, like Marburg virus or Spanish flu.
Ostensibly it was to avoid offending China, because otherwise China might withdraw its funding for WHO. They didn't say that the US paid 10x what China did.
You mean avoid creating a racist frothing mob of anti-Asian hate crime committing morons? I think that’s a pretty smart idea, using the scientific name is much more accurate than the name of the place the virus was first noticed to be spreading.
Thankfully we’ve learned some things about appropriate naming since your examples which were named 50-100 years ago….
Yes, a bad name, purposefully used to justify US economic attacks on Cuba since Havana syndrome began being discussed. Duh. Not good.
Yes. Liberals are hypocrites. What exactly is your point? They’re both bad names
Exactly 0 people wil change their minds about the USA after seeing this btw. Its just going to be memory-holed away, and whenever you question someone about it they'll just look at you like you're the weird one.
In 10 years official documents will quietly be released admitting that the CIA faked the allegations of Uyghur genocide and nobody will ever talk about it again
everyone but me, a serious person who has a real doctor-house level mysterious disease that the real life doctors are refusing to address, is malingering.
