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is there any source for this Xi house arrest thing, can't find anything on regular news

· · SubwayTooter · 1 · 0 · 1
@skells The only thing I've seen are randos on twitter talking about it. Apparently the logic behind the rumor is that there are an unusually low amount of airline flights over their capitol and numerous flights have been cancelled.

Until I see video I'm chalking it up to the usual twitter logic of "This small thing must mean something crazy and unrelated"
@7 @skells Yeah, I'm looking through the feed right now, So far it's just people who know nothing repeating each other and some random Indian news sites that I know nothing about.

@ins0mniak @7 seems like something is going on, quite how one gets to Xi under house arrest

with Iran and everything else going crazy, you get the sense that we're at an historical hinge point, who knows

@skells @7 Yeah, I guess we'll find out eventually one way or another.

I will say, a lot of these posts are coming form Indian accounts and those people are notoriously dumb on social media. They'll spread any conspiracy they see for some reason.

@ins0mniak @skells That it’s primarily Indian sources doesn’t lend confidence. And Zeng’s a good reporter but she’s not shy to announce the dead ends she’ll pursue that fit her interests.

@7 @skells For sure. India's entire country are like American facebook boomers. Thye'll believe anything and spread the hell out of it.

I'm also starting to see posts from different accounts that seem to be repeating more or less the same sentences.

Troll farm maybe?

@ins0mniak @7 haha no doubt, weird use for a troll farm tho

usually when bots are spouting similar lines there's an agenda

@skells @ins0mniak It could be a rogue element trying to spur nationalism in India. Making a self-fulfilling prophecy? Ionno, not enough info.

@7 @ins0mniak just seems odd timing with Iran but yeah not enough info

"data, data, data; I cannot make bricks without clay!"

@skells @7 Yeah, it's also Twitter.

Everyone is an international affairs expert, lol

@ins0mniak @7 international affairs is easy

blame the CIA

@skells @ins0mniak I really want to blame it on an amateurish plot by the Indian Intelligence Bureau or the R&D Wing.

@7 @ins0mniak that would be cool, flexing their new toys

@7 @ins0mniak isn't it weird af that this is how we shoot the breeze in the 21sr century

@7 @skells It's always amazing to me who many people see those kinds of things on birdsite and just accept it as truth immediately.

@ins0mniak @skells then I will be sure to disclaim:

this is not financial advice

@7 @ins0mniak my name's skells@qoto and welcome...

to statecraft

*launched out of catapult*

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@ins0mniak @7 tbf if it's anything to do with the Clinton's doing bad shit I fall for it hook line and sinker so I guess there's an audience for every meme

@skells @7 Well that's probably because even if a Clinton rumor is bogus, they're still most likely doing something shady.

If they're not doing something shady, you know they're thinking about it.
@ins0mniak @7 @skells reading this thread sure is reminding me why twitter became completely unbearable and i just went back to fedi lol
@rats @7 @skells Oh yeah, lol.

I have an account because I follow my local weatherman. That's about all I get out of it.

@skells @ins0mniak Then I suspect blitz will be telling us how the coup is real soon enough.

@skells @11112011 @7 @ins0mniak the people who want to hear everything, are they the biggest suckers in the world?

@opal @11112011 @7 @ins0mniak they're called artists and yes they sick so we don't have to

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@skells @7 @ins0mniak actualy rachel has gud takes on soccer but not just that usualy her soccer bets are wins

@11112011 @ins0mniak @skells it was all quite funny to watch explode. Swamy and Zeng say something and the entire internet loses their shit.

maybe the entire internet needs some man-dates from heaven on a warm beach.

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