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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

USA and it's allies are just shoot themselves in the foot with this terror action.

https://x.com/zhao_dashuai/status/1836626658759184595

Posts from Chinese social media, stating factories are running overnight shifts to accommodate huge orders of communication devices from the Middle East.

A requirement from clients, is that the whole manufacturing process must be done inside China.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Also the west...

Those devices were rigged to blow by Israel, who then pulled the trigger.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TopRamenBinLaden 14 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The little black box with a screen is a pager. Pagers have been in the news because Israel made a bunch of Hezbollah pagers splode, in case you somehow missed all of that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 26 minutes ago

Correction: They made pagers explode. Hazbollah preferred, not a necessity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

But what does the meme mean? What messaging has the West given in favor of using pagers?

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

But what does the meme mean?

The problem wasn't China.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's just projection as always

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Just to correct, the pagers were made by a taiwanese company, not chinese.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think the meme is suggesting that they were literally made by "the West" but maybe I'm missing something

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Taiwan is part of the capitalist core which is basically synonymous with the west. Honorary west you could say, at least until its strategic significance drops and it will get abandoned by USA.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

I understand that argument, but to me that departs from normal parlance of the kind that would ever be used in a meme.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The pagers were licensed by the Taiwanese company. Officially produced in Europe by Hungarian company BAC. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taiwan-firm-denies-making-pagers-used-lebanon-explosions-rcna171594. But BAC a shell company so the rabbit hole continues.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago

More recent update, all the actual manufacturers were shell companies wholly operated by Mossad.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

This pissed off alot of libs lmao

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