Suspected Chinese spy balloon spotted over U.S. skies

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03 Feb 2023, 8:29 pm

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If the US banned tik tok, it would have an extreme negative psychological impact on US teens.

Only temporarily. Surely someone in the U.S.A., or in some allied country, could easily come up with a replacement for TikTok.


It would take too long.



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03 Feb 2023, 8:49 pm

You’d think with all the guns everywhere that civilians would just shoot it down. :P


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03 Feb 2023, 10:30 pm

A proportional response from the Ameriiians is in order.
Nuking Beijing is something that is being considered, so I hear. 8)



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03 Feb 2023, 10:35 pm

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A proportional response from the Ameriiians is in order.
Nuking Beijing is something that is being considered, so I hear. 8)

Nah. They’ll do real damage to China by building factories in Texas for Mexicans to make plastic crap at.


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03 Feb 2023, 10:39 pm

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Teenagers spend on average 2hrs per day on Tik tok. 40% of US teens spend what would be considered excessive amounts of time on the platform.


A bit ironic, "Tik Tok" being such a "time" waster. :mrgreen:

This reminds me of a joke:

During WWII, a Swiss Kookoo klock was captured by the Gestapo.
It was quite unique because it only went "tick...tick...tick..."
Herr Fritz interrogated the clock and sternly declared:
"Vee have vays of making you "tock". :mrgreen:



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03 Feb 2023, 10:51 pm

American teens will just go to Utube.Thats a joke of an issue.

But American soybean farmers would ... storm Capitol Hill, guillotine Biden, and chop off the heads of every member of Congress, Democrat, GOP, MAGA, and anti Maga because shutting down trade with China would eliminate their livelihood!



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03 Feb 2023, 10:55 pm

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American teens will just go to Utube.Thats a joke of an issue.

But American soybean farmers would ... storm Capitol Hill, guillotine Biden, and chop off the heads of every member of Congress, Democrat, GOP, MAGA, and anti Maga because shutting down trade with China would eliminate their livelihood!


This reminds me of a joke:
Q: What do you call 500 politicians at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A jolly good start. :mrgreen:



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03 Feb 2023, 10:59 pm

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03 Feb 2023, 11:28 pm

Like the U2 spy planes we sent over Russia in the late Fifites. But a U2 plane cant hover, and loiter like this remotely controlled balloon can. And there is no Gary Powers...no human pilot we can take as a hostage if we shoot it down.



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03 Feb 2023, 11:47 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
But American soybean farmers would ... storm Capitol Hill, guillotine Biden, and chop off the heads of every member of Congress, Democrat, GOP, MAGA, and anti Maga because shutting down trade with China would eliminate their livelihood!


That's just one industry reliant on China



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04 Feb 2023, 12:25 am

Exactly



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04 Feb 2023, 1:22 am

Its over St. Louis now.

A second one was sighted "over Latin America".

"Latin America" is a huge area. Wish they could be a little specific.



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04 Feb 2023, 1:22 am

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04 Feb 2023, 1:22 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Its over St. Louis now.

A second one was sighted "over Latin America".

"Latin America" is a huge area. Wish they could be a little specific.



The CCP claim it's been sent by an enemy of China



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04 Feb 2023, 2:16 am

naturalplastic wrote:
Its over St. Louis now.

A second one was sighted "over Latin America".

"Latin America" is a huge area. Wish they could be a little specific.



At least they didn’t say it’s over “many Mexican countries,” like some American news broadcast referred to Central America as a few years ago. :lol:


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04 Feb 2023, 4:05 am

cyberdad wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Its over St. Louis now.

A second one was sighted "over Latin America".

"Latin America" is a huge area. Wish they could be a little specific.



The CCP claim it's been sent by an enemy of China


You do realise the CCP has less than zero credibility, right? 8O