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  I would think the US would want to get hands on that to see the payload.  Maybe that would explain why a balloon vs satellite or spy plane. Maybe it's carrying some instrumentation that won't work from too high altitude.
context: Force majeure: An event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled, e.g. ACT OF GOD >
  
  What are you saying exactly? >
  
  It’s a legal stance that they couldn’t control it so they aren’t at fault. Basically they weren’t spying on the us, this shit just went over the us by a failure. It also prevents us from seizing it and whatever was attached to it. Idk how well this argument will srand >
  
  Source on the “force majeure” claim preventing the US from seizing it? I don’t see how that can possibly be the case. >
  
  So I guess the other one over Latin America is another “mu-bad”?!! 🤨 >
  
  Drop a bunch of leaves from a building and watch the wind carrying them in different directions. >
  
  The balloon over the US has shown it can maneuver. They aren't just blowing around. >
  
  It’s Pennywise looking to scoop up some adult tartare for lunch!! 🎈🤡 >
  
  Did you see the post about Steven King too? >
  
  What post? Don't tell me he died! >
  
  So they'd have no problem with us bringing down their "errant" balloon? >
  
  We’re about to find out >
  
  I might believe the balloon somehow got blown way off course-
  If there wasn’t another one over South America. 
  Two just seems a little too much of a coincidence. 
  I guess it might be possible both balloons got caught up in the same winds or jet stream, but… eh. >
  
  Once is chance, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. 
  I’m just waiting to read about the third one floating around so I can then jump to the ‘oh it’s totally intentional’ conclusion. >
  
  fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, uhhh cant get fooled again >
  
  *throws shoe* >
  
  *dodges*
  *throws other shoe*
  *dodges again* >
  
  George Bush don’t care about Shoe people >
  
  Hilariously, neither does Ye anymore. >
  
  Great follow up. >
  
  Adidas dropped him, didn't they? >
  
  Yes they did. 300 mil down the drain. >
  
  Force Majeure in their vocabulary is " caught in the act". >
  
  Find a third balloon, and it is a majeure à trois >
  
  Maybe then we'll figure out who the Chinese are in bed with. >
  
  China doesn’t do soft power well. They have a limited number of allies.
  Russia and China are friendly but only if China doesn’t mess with India. Russia will always side with India because Russia and India both experienced “Sino wars” in the 1960’s. >
  
  India is one of Russia’s largest trading partners. It might be the largest now. >
  
  china: we dont have to use airballoons to spy on you. we simply bribe some of your underpaid workers. >
  
  That costs money though. Just handing out TikTok to everyone is way easier. >
  
  Insane how little tiktok is being brought up right now. 1/8th of all living humans across the entire planet are using tiktok every month, voluntarily sharing private and confidential info >
  
  Insane how little US spyware apps like Facebook, Twitter, Insta, Snapchat get brought up >
  
  Well the two are very different so why would those be brought up? >
  
  Difference in that American spyware = good? Chinese spyware = bad? >
  
  The level of spyware in TikTok > level of spyware in Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter combined >
  
  If you actually believe that, then there's really no changing your mind lmao >
  
  Lol ahh yes because all the other apps share data through a third party and I can’t tell where my data goes from Facebook 🙄 putting it out there I don’t use Facebook Twitter or insta for the reason I don’t want my data fucked with, doesn’t change the fact that TikTok is leagues worse than any of them tho >
  
  
  through a third party
  
  Is the US government a third party though?
  Surely if you're concerned about Tiktok spying then you would like to see something done about all apps spying >
  
  
  "China has always strictly abided by international law and respected the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries," the ministry said
  
  Riiight, riight, right. >
  
  Every other country that borders the South China Sea would beg to differ. Every single one. >
  
  China has fought a war with every single one of their neighbors, even the ones that aren’t land bordering them lol >
  
  I do indeed remember when big bully China fought a war against sweet innocent Japan in the 1930s and 40s >
  
  Japan was trying to de-Nazify China ofc >
  
  Now it seems the accident is changing course intentionally and there is a second accident floating over Latin America. >
  
  “We are very sorry that we got caught” >
  
  Weather / wind current patterns suggest that China is lying, especially now that there is another spotted in Latin America. >
  
  China and lying about foreign policy. Name a more iconic duo. >
  
  Yeah, but [insert whataboutism here]? >
  
  They are working their way down. They're busy doing that to the top comments, atm. >
  
  Yep.  I just caught a "The US can't have the moral high ground on this because [the US did bad shit in the past]"
  On a comment that had nothing to do with the US, and was just pointing out how much china bald-face lies. >
  
  99 red balloons go by