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vincent

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Faithfreedom said:
Old news, this happened years ago.

THAAD is an Army weapon. It doesn't have a warhead, just uses kinetic energy against incoming missiles. Useless against balloon.
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THAAD supposedly is super accurate since it is “a bullet hitting a bullet”. A THAAD missile in theory should be able to drill two holes through the balloon and cause it to leak and fall.
 
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Faithfreedom

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vincent said:
THAAD supposedly is super accurate since it is “a bullet hitting a bullet”. A THAAD missile in theory should be able to drill two holes through the balloon and cause it to leak and fall.
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Would only make a small hole, might take a week for enough helium to leak for it to come down.

At least they could hit the gondola and bust that up.
 
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问：3日，美国务院高官在电话吹风会上称，受中国无人飞艇进入美领空事件影响，美国务卿布林肯已决定推迟访华行程。中方对此有何评论？

答：关于中国无人飞艇因不可抗力误入美国领空事，中方已核查并向美方作出反馈。该飞艇属民用性质，用于气象等科研。受西风带影响，且自身控制能力有限，该飞艇严重偏离预定航线。这完全是一次不可抗力导致的意外情况，事实非常清楚。中国一贯严格遵守国际法，尊重各国主权和领土完整，无意也从不侵犯任何主权国家的领土和领空。美国一些政客、媒体借题发挥，对中国攻击抹黑，中方坚决反对。

保持各层级接触沟通是中美两国元首巴厘岛会晤重要共识。两国外交团队的职责之一就是妥善管控双边关系，尤其是冷静、稳妥处理一些意外情况。事实上，中美双方都没有宣布过什么访问，美方发布有关消息是美方自己的事情，我们予以尊重。
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China MFA says they never invited Blinken to visit, Blinken was just making up the whole thing :) .
 
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Had anyone identified nature of the payload with current images? I mean optical or SIGINT.
 
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pmc said:
It should have been strategic decision of Chinese government not enrich Germans. Car is discretionary spending. They could have encouraged Japanese or Korean cars if domestic alternative not available. Japan or Korea can never become a threat unless they are backed up by Europe.
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Banning German cars just for being German would be stupid and repeating the mistakes the Soviet Union made. If someone wants a foreign made car, then you are reducing their quality of life. It may not be a big deal if it was just limited to cars, but the effect would be exacerbated if extended to other consumer products. Besides, there's also no need to. The trend looks like Chinese quality will meet and exceed western quality. If anything it'll be the west banning Chinese cars.

Why would buying South Korean or Japanese cars be any better than German ones? If you're attached to the American imperialist teat, you're just as bad as them. From the Chinese perspective, the Japanese are much worse than the Americans.

Discretionary spending for who? Maybe for you, but I need a car to work, transport my family, etc.
pmc said:
Japan can refuse to buy American cars. but if same Japan made part of EU than let see how much of Japan auto industry left or for that matter anything else. Germany is much more ideological and Globalist than any one else. Just look at German President and Chancellor international visits. they are much more than any Japanese or American leader per year. Infact German President and Chancellor both visited Japan same year. that by itself unique. Germany know how to slap down countries inside EU. (they already tought lesson to UK for leaving EU). Germany will move globe against you.
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LOL. European cars would have no chance against Japanese ones. Look at any market where both are allowed to compete equally. That's why the Europeans tariff Japanese cars to give their domestic manufacturers an advantage. Even still, Japanese cars are quite popular in Europe.
 
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siegecrossbow said:
Fun fact: when you turn a heart upside down it looks like buttcheeks.
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That is, in fact, the actual origin of the heart symbol. The greeks made it to resemble a woman's behind. Figures they'd choose something like that.
clockwork said:
Wtf is up with how they always capitalize CHINA and CHINESE? Seem to notice it in US right wingers. It seriously unsettles me. It's like the mere stimulus always sends their animalistic minds into a paroxysm or something, they're incapable of just uttering the word normally without a bestial convulsion. I'm dead serious when I say it's genuinely disturbing to observe.

This is beyond propagandized chauvinism, or even a crazed dog. Reminds me of like a berserker virus infected zombie or something. Just such unnatural behaviour.
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American mutts displaying their societal-level pavlovian conditioning.

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and charged them with the “swarming” and stabbing death of a homeless man, the victim has been identified as 59-year-old Ken Lee.

Lee, who a source previously told the Star had been dealing with homelessness for some time — with stays in shelter dating back years — was known to some as “Kenney.” He died near the Strathcona shelter hotel, where he had previously stayed, though he was no longer a resident there at the time.

To staff at the shelter, Lee was known as a sweet and quiet man, said David Reycraft, head of housing services for its operating agency, Dixon Hall, who would stop to check in on workers’ well-being.

That quiet life came to an end in the early morning hours of Dec. 18, when he was allegedly assaulted and stabbed by a group of GTA teenagers — all between the ages of 13 and 16. Police sources say they are investigating at least two possible other swarming incidents involving the same girls earlier in the same night, and believe they came into contact with Lee after they tried to steal a bottle of alcohol from his companion.
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Erica Chin recalls the teens grabbed a bottle of alcohol she was drinking.

“My friend Kenny,” she said in tears, “he saw it. Stopped them. ‘”Leave her alone,”‘ she recalls him saying. And then they,” as she punched the air with her fist
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"He protected me," she said.

That's when the group of girls started to punch him repeatedly, she recalled. Frightened by the violence, she walked away while one of the girls followed her. She said she could see lots of blood.

"Bleeding, bleeding, bleeding. I didn't know if they had a knife or what. I was just scared," she said. "I think they stabbed his belly."
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