Is it a fake to sow panic?

  • frippa@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Some days ago I was in the capital of a big European Union nation and saw like 10 military jeeps on the road, I’m not spouting this coup bs because i was close to a military base, that claim is just baseless

  • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    What’s the point of it? It’s not going to fluster anyone in China where it’s obvious there’s nothing going on, and in a couple of days (if even that) it’ll be impossible not to see it’s BS. What are they trying to accomplish?

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Let’s start a rumor that “Maoist forces” within the US military have removed Joe Biden from office, and see if any international news sources run with it.

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            2 years ago

            The other track is to show the tweet to friends and, when they scoff at it, say it’s a cover-up. All contrary evidence is a cover-up and anybody in DC that denies it is lying to protect themselves and their family.

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              2 years ago

              Next step is to fabricate a story about the US government putting minorities in concentration camps, just like China is supposed to have done in Xinjiang…

              Oh, wait.

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      2 years ago

      And if anything, the PLA tends hardline Maoist and “conservative,” or so I’ve been told. So it’s likely that even this wouldn’t solve the west’s problems.

    • Bury The Right@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 years ago

      Yes, if the PLA ever did a coup, more then likely it would be for the Chinese government being too passive in acting against the West.

  • HaSch@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    If the military seriously wants to depose Xi, they wouldn’t even need a second to do so. He eats in so many local restaurants, he has visited so many poor families, he walks among the people without bodyguards, and he attends yearly military parades; the opportunities to assassinate him, whether via bullet, bomb, staged accident, or poison, would be endless. They will not do so because they stand nothing to gain, and because they know that even if they did it anyway, they’d never get away with it.