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U.S. told Philippines it made ‘missteps’ in secret anti-vax propaganda effort (www.reuters.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The U.S. admission followed a June 14 Reuters investigation that revealed how the Pentagon launched a secret psychological operation to discredit Chinese vaccines and other COVID aid in 2020 and 2021, at the height of the pandemic. As a result of the Reuters investigation, the Philippine Senate Foreign Relations Committee launched a hearing into the matter and sought a response from the U.S.

According to the June 25 document, Pentagon officials concluded its anti-vax campaign was “misaligned with our priorities.” It says the U.S. military told Filipino officials that operatives “ceased COVID-related messaging related to COVID-19 origins and COVID-19 vaccines in August 2021.”

... so Trump?

I imagine Biden had a lot of fires to put out once he became President in January 2021, but it would have been nice if this scheme ended sooner.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

God you people drive me insane, presidents do not drive policy. Capital does. How many times do we have to tell you to stop pinning all the sins of this demonic country on one guy?

You have the understanding of a child. In fact I bet any random 9 year old could understand this better than you willfully ignorant liberals.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please try not to immediately jump down people’s throats so I don’t have to remove comments I agree with in substance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We're all adults here, please stop with the censorship threats. He's responding to a guy who's attempting to paint a genocidaire in a good light. Throat jumping down is completely understandable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s not really a threat since we do it all the time. lemmy.ml is neither lemmygrad.ml nor hexbear.net.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

☝ You’ve here been longer than me, @[email protected]. I think you should have figured out by now why we consciously choose to run this instance differently from lemmygrad.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Ultimate power ultimately corrupts. It doesn’t matter whether it comes from capital or community.

We must have a way to audit, it’s a tool that helps keep power in check. How do you audit handshakes and wink/nods?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

i'm sure he was just super busy ensuring roe v wade remained the law of the land, protecting trans rights, and successfully addressing covid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think Trump even knows what The Philippines is?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, but I think he likes to order the military around and might give a rambling 'order' like, 'China bad. China vaccines bad. Why send good vaccines to those sh-thole countries for free?' -- and then in so many words telling the Pentagon to make them all f-off and die.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

That's not how any of this works

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They only ended this small portion covered by the limited hangout because getting BACK TO WORK and killing yourself for profit meant that they had to slow down the anti-vax portion of their propaganda. The expose itself on this issue confirms that it was much larger than just this alone, the anti-mask psyops likely never stopped, and Biden gave this same company HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS MORE TO KEEP DOING THIS.

The fire isn't put out. It's burning in your balls, bone marrow, and meninges. You either have the virus fucking with you and causing chronic immune activation or are getting infected until you do.

edit: unless you stop catching it as much, which you can kinda do at any time despite the government encouraging spread