My relationship with balloon is over. Airship is now my best friend.

  • Arsen6331 ☭
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    391 year ago

    Wow, the US was able to shoot down a balloon that has no weapons and can’t defend itself?? This is so impressive. We truly have the best military in the world. /s

    • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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      321 year ago

      And they’ve had a week, with F-35s and whatnot constantly circling it. They’ve probably burned 1 Billion dollars in air fuel by now, not even joking.

      • @KommandoGZD
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        341 year ago

        with F-35s and whatnot constantly circling it

        lmao the picture of these billion dollar planes circling this balloon while an entire nation of 350mio is coping and seething below is just too hysterical. It’s such a beautiful, absurd allegory for the US as a state

    • Bury The Right
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      311 year ago

      I can hear the voices of chuds in my head cheering and yelling about how they “showed” the Chinese not to mess with burgerland.

    • Yiazmat
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      161 year ago

      after it flew across the entire country lol

  • @Mzuark
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    331 year ago

    You know, the biggest argument against that thing being a spy balloon is this: It is 2023. China has spy satellites just like us, they don’t need a dirigible.

    • JucheBot1988
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      211 year ago

      Maybe they’re going for the Zeppelin coolness factor.

  • @quality_fun
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    281 year ago

    hopefully, the cost of the ammunition was more than the “airship”.

  • @KommandoGZD
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    271 year ago

    It’s only Feb, but this already has to be the dumbest story of the year

    • @HaSch
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      241 year ago

      Do not underestimate the BBC’s journalistic capabilities like that, there’s gotta be more where that banger came from

      • @KommandoGZD
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        151 year ago

        I mean…fair point lol. At least people are calling it a weather balloon now if you can believe it

  • @DengsCats
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    231 year ago

    When you have too many hrs on bloons TD6

  • @DesiDebugger
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    231 year ago

    They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to scramble a jet and shoot down a frigging weather balloon while people cannot afford basic healthcare and struggle to afford food.

  • @Giyuu
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    211 year ago

    The US needed something to sell to their brainwashed citizens as a win with how badly they’re getting murked in Ukraine

  • @HaSch
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    161 year ago

    Oh, the inanity

  • relay
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    91 year ago

    What are the odds that this is completely fabricated wholecloth?

    • @CamaradaD
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      71 year ago

      Posted comment in wrong thread.