https://archive.md/WdjvF

I didn’t read it because I don’t care. Critical support if true.

My parents watch 60 Minutes because they are old. The whole show tonight was devoted to this story.

Didn’t congress already give them a blank check for any medical care they need and stuff? What do they want? Our credulity? Our sympathy?

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    26·
    8 months ago

    I heard a few minutes of it. They had someone who experienced it, and went on on how they figured it must be some enemy act immediately.

    No, honey, you have surprise neurological symptoms, you go to the fucking hospital. Once they’ve figured out for sure that you’re having an active stroke, then you can call the spooks.

    It seems like building a billion-rouble Death Ray LiteTM and blasting rays to incapicate embassy staff is an awfully scattershot and Rube Goldberg solution for a problem that could be solved by setting up, say, an “auto accident” or “robbery breakin” to put a vital staffer out of commission.

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      The whole 60 Minutes piece was full of blatant contradictions and suspect investigative work. Examples:

      1. Some intelligence asshole who’s convinced this is a Russian attack (and who they later reveal has started a private company marketing something to Havana Syndrome havers, hmm no bias there) said they’re targeting only upper-echelon U.S. personnel. They go on to interview the wife of some DOJ guy in Germany and talk about another “incident” at a NATO conference where Biden and Zelensky were present. So spouses of lawyers are upper-echelon targets now? And they used their undetectable mind ray on some diplomat at this NATO conference, but not Biden or Zelensky?
      2. The lawyer’s wife, whose incident occurred around 2014, was given a photo of some Russian teenager 60 Minutes has connected to this. Dude looks like a million other teenagers you can find throughout Europe. She’s convinced this is the guy she saw outside her house a decade ago. Just an absurdly unreliable identification.