is there any source for this Xi house arrest thing, can't find anything on regular news
Until I see video I'm chalking it up to the usual twitter logic of "This small thing must mean something crazy and unrelated"
@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
@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.
@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!"
@ins0mniak @7 international affairs is easy
blame the CIA
@ins0mniak @7 only 50% shitpost at this point
@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
@ins0mniak @skells then I will be sure to disclaim:
this is not financial advice
@skells @ins0mniak At least it’s no longer just the domain of the elite. Now everyone can make terrible decisions and analyses on the geopolitical scale.
@7 @ins0mniak this is why they're terrified of the internet
@ins0mniak @skells I know my takes can be pretty shit when I have little info, but thank fuck I’m not “twitter-screenshot” tier. That’s just straight wishful thinking.
perhaps the Xi story is merely an impulse test to see how far a non-bot rumor will spread. they'll need that information to tailor the 'abattoir hesitancy' campaign next year for the FEMA camp muster.
I would love to see Elon's data on Twitter. That site is such a mess of agenda driven bullshit.
@ins0mniak @7 @not_br549 No Agenda just saying that canceled flights and trains seem most likely the source
I like the impulse test thing though, more interesting than a dying Twitter just chasing eyeballs with not farms
That of course could be a lot of things. Chinese politics are a big black box. Say, for example they had some computer issue and grounded their planes while they fixed it. The last thing the PRC would do is tell anyone about it. They love projecting the image they've cultivated for them selves.
but I don't think it is anything that Xi and his security apparatus can't handle.
@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
@ins0mniak @7 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/about-those-rumors-chinese-coup
nice Twitter thread there
@skells @ins0mniak Then I suspect blitz will be telling us how the coup is real soon enough.
@11112011 @7 @ins0mniak everyone's a sucker for what they want to hear
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@opal @11112011 @7 @ins0mniak they're called artists and yes they sick so we don't have to
@11112011 @7 @ins0mniak don't follow footy but that's hot
@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.
Well, people flipping out is usually pretty funny.