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minus-squareJackFrostNColalinkfedilinkEnglish10•19 hours agoJust to correct, the pagers were made by a taiwanese company, not chinese.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•14 hours agoI think the meme is suggesting that they were literally made by “the West” but maybe I’m missing something
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•edit-213 hours agoTaiwan 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•6 hours agoI understand that argument, but to me that departs from normal parlance of the kind that would ever be used in a meme.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilink23•18 hours agoThe 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink12•10 hours agoMore recent update, all the actual manufacturers were shell companies wholly operated by Mossad.
Just to correct, the pagers were made by a taiwanese company, not chinese.
I think the meme is suggesting that they were literally made by “the West” but maybe I’m missing something
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.
I understand that argument, but to me that departs from normal parlance of the kind that would ever be used in a meme.
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.
More recent update, all the actual manufacturers were shell companies wholly operated by Mossad.