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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:33 PM Mar 2020

Please stop with the HOAX TANK PICTURES AND VIDEOS

Our enemies on social media are circulating pictures and videos of military equipment and people in camo.

The same pictures are said to be in one place or another place.

This is a COMMON social media disruption technique.

I just had someone send me pictures of “tanks on a train” in central New Jersey. The trees, however, are in full summer foliage.

There is another one at a railroad crossing in NY, oops Florida, no California - the same stupid fucking video of a train carrying armored vehicles.

There is a stupid “I just got this from my friend at FEMA” email going around which is too stupid to describe. Long story short - that one is fake too.

People, if there were a massive military mobilization in this country, there is no “they” that could keep a lid on it. Please stop circulating this horseshit. Just because someone shows you a picture of a tank and says it was “today in Baltimore” does not make it true.







STOP DOING THE WORK OF THOSE WHO WANT TO HARM US

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Please stop with the HOAX TANK PICTURES AND VIDEOS (Original Post) jberryhill Mar 2020 OP
Thanks, JBH DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #1
this is the first I have seen of it Kali Mar 2020 #2
I've seen it out in the wild jberryhill Mar 2020 #4
I got my first text scam to link to something about my $1000 assistance check Kali Mar 2020 #7
It's not a hoax jpak Mar 2020 #3
They're headed to Bowling Green, I'm sure... Wounded Bear Mar 2020 #5
stop providing the link!!! Demonaut Mar 2020 #6
There are lots of them jberryhill Mar 2020 #9
What crap ... and there was no place to report link to twitter UpInArms Mar 2020 #8
Follow the link to Twitter Ms. Toad Mar 2020 #13
Thank you UpInArms Mar 2020 #14
War president is preparing to attack the invisible enemy. Sneederbunk Mar 2020 #10
A Warning To Heed, Sir The Magistrate Mar 2020 #11
We're up by Fort Hood. We that stuff weekly, especially in the summer ... marble falls Mar 2020 #12
Thank you! Aquaria Mar 2020 #15
Thank YOU jberryhill Mar 2020 #16
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
4. I've seen it out in the wild
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:38 PM
Mar 2020

Someone sent me the “my contact in FEMA” email earlier today.

I sent back a debunking and she came out with all of these tank pictures.

I’m like, “Summer came early in New Jersey did it?”

She’s IN New Jersey and didn’t notice the trees in the picture could not possibly look that way today.

Kali

(55,008 posts)
7. I got my first text scam to link to something about my $1000 assistance check
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:43 PM
Mar 2020

guy at the feed store is in full-on CT mode - virus created by CDC etc

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. There are lots of them
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:45 PM
Mar 2020

People will say “oh the one I got is different”

There is no harmful content in the video itself.

Ms. Toad

(34,069 posts)
13. Follow the link to Twitter
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:54 PM
Mar 2020

Click on the upper right corner of the offending tweet, and report it.

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
11. A Warning To Heed, Sir
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:49 PM
Mar 2020

This sort of woo used to break out spontaneously, now we must reckon with the possibility it is a deliberate effort at sowing panic and distrust.

"What a world, what a world...."

marble falls

(57,081 posts)
12. We're up by Fort Hood. We that stuff weekly, especially in the summer ...
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 09:54 PM
Mar 2020

the one photo shows a tank on a train car up on blocks - tracks and drive removed, not exactly what I would send on maneuvers. My thought is that the one train is obsolete, worn out equipment on the way to or from a GAO auction.

You haven't seen a longer parade than a 15 vehicle convoy with a three mile string of angry civilians behind it. Been there many times in the last twelve years.

I drive past Ft Hood when I go to the VA. You've never seen more combat vehicles, humvees, tankers with fuel and water, 6X6's, in your life at one time. Time to time they go on road trips and when the reserves show up - they hit the road in green.

Those two tweeters are Russian bots no doubt in my mind.

 

Aquaria

(1,076 posts)
15. Thank you!
Fri Mar 20, 2020, 10:32 PM
Mar 2020

I live in Military City, USA.

Our bases don't do much with combat operations, but they are among the bases that supply the support personnel to make combat zones work. When the military is about to bug out somewhere, we see the movement here, because our neighbors bug out themselves. We ALL have military neighbors here. They're everywhere. I have about half a dozen of them in my little subdivision. One of them is my next door neighbor.

That's why I know we have NO mobilization going on here. Whenever there's a big operation, he's GONE. I thought something must have happened because he hasn't been around lately, but I saw him yesterday. Told him I'd wondered what international fuckup to expect when I saw everyone gone. He laughed and said no fuck up, he'd been on leave to visit relatives in Mexico while the borders were open, sorry for not letting us know, but the plans got made on short notice.

There is no massive military op going on.

I wish people would use their heads for something other than hat racks.

Look, there won't be fed troops coming through. We're not brown people at the border, so who will get the call to respond to a FEMA-type disaster are the National Guards. Each state will make that call as they see fit. If it happens, the governorwill inform us via major breaking news about a National Guard call up, and it will be all over every TV and radio station--NOT from some random chump on stupid fucking social media.

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