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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (27 children)

Noone's talking about lab creation, but rather the fact the research institution in question specializes in virology. So they would go into the field(/bat caves in this case) to collect virus samples to bring back to the lab in Wuhan to study (as that's literally their job).

Mistakes happen, and a researcher could have simply been infected by one of these collected samples before going onto infect other people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (25 children)

In that case, I don't see how that's the striking condemnation of China that Western media makes the lab theory out to be. The virus is still of entirely natural origin, and it was spread inadvertently. Maybe in that case you could make the argument that the lab and/or the workers responsible should bear responsibility and that it was negligence as opposed to a freak accident, but usually when Westerners talk about the lab theory they think "China was researching COVID specifically to destroy the world REEEEE"

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 years ago (18 children)

You'd try to defend China anyway though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 years ago (1 children)

And you'd defend NATO any way you can too, what's your point? Are you a war hawk?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

No, I think there are things to criticize about NATO, but not that it's furthering white supremacy or that NATO and member countries are neo nazis and all that nonsense. I'm for example critical of NATO's (And Russia/China's) training demonstrations that are upping conflict or taking in eastern countries that don't historically would be a part of NATO that also makes Russia more volatile

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

It's objectively a club of exclusively majority white nations (+ Turkey) using their military to bomb non-white dominant nations for the past 60 years. Many of their countries have or have had far right political parties (Poland, Greece, USA, etc.) in political power during its tenure. How are you not seeing this as a white supremacist organization? Do you actually take what they say at face value?

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