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[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 92 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Narrative control is pretty much how this panopticon fucks with our heads and grooms us.

I hate how tin foil this makes me sound. But like, the US government straight up admitted to researching how to control the population with weird shit like MKUltra. It's not that wild to think that in 70+ years of research they haven't figured out how to psychologically manipulate the population.

You see it with how sharply the paradigm shifted with young people to cynical "might makes right" bully shit straight after Trump won and the powers that be started fucking with social media again. Again, makes me sound like I'm sniffing Alex Jones style conspiracy nonsense. But suddenly we got "Gen Z loves the right actually" and a new wave of douchey anti-empathy mindset right out of the 2010s.

But also all this is pointless to dwell on or you will go absolutely paranoid.

[–] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why wouldn't they apply marketing/behavioral research to Politics? You're not really making any outlandish claims. It's okay to be aware of this, but like you said, if it makes you fall into conspiracy theories and black pill, it can also be dangerous.

Like I don't think there's any shadowy organization controlling the people. Why would they want to control people anyways, when they can control the system?

Let's use psychiatry as an example, it's meant to help people function better, but under capitalism it's more beneficial to have a repeat customer, so it's not outlandish to suggest some % of psychiatrists will avoid tackling problems in order to benefit their bottom line. If someone turns that into "The Illuminati are ordering our psychiatrists to ruin our society. Don't go to a doctor!" - that's reactionary thinking.

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I fully agree.

[–] SerialExperimentsGay@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know how that feels, i've done a bit of research about who funds anti-trans / anti-feminist / anti-abortion / MRA networks (which, ofc, all have enormous overlap) and when i lay that out i basically have to go full corkboard scheme.

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I think I'd rather have a small number of enemies who have a lot of influence than a truely diffused mass movement to fight against. More a dartboard than a corkboard.

[–] Helios44@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

It does make you sound crazy, but it's entirely true. The reason it sounds so crazy is because we've been conditioned to think that corpos all act separately from the government and the bourgeiosie don't have shared class interests.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One of the ways that the government tries to gaslight everyone is by saying that these programs are all historical and of course don't exist today.

TrueAnon often points out that this is if course not true. It's the same people in the same organizations working there, budgets are the same or growing, the US still has the same policies and global political role - why would anything really think that these departments would cut some of their most researched and effective programs? It makes no sense

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 74 points 1 month ago

Motherfucker omitted Israel and thought we wouldn't notice.

[–] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

Why bother hiding it when none of the actual republicans here will care one bit.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where/when was this revealed?

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

During the location feature being turned on lots of far right accounts were exposed. Ones with hundreds of thousands of followers. Dogedesigner for instance was found to be from India Edit:DHS showed Israel i-cant

[–] Fidels_Beard@hexbear.net 68 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 41 points 1 month ago

Just normal vassal state things

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every bit of this picture is just hilarious

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Joined July 2008 in Israel

Based in Tel Aviv, Israel

Connected via Israel App Store

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Department of security using a public appstore lmao doomed country

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This could be a post on its own I swear down i-cant Amazing right?

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

This was posted twice on its own yesterday lol.

[–] JustSo@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did anyone archive this? lol

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

I'm still awaiting versification atp

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

What about The Internet Doesn't Deserve to Live theory? skeleton-guns-akimbo

[–] Llituro@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they let a million ian miles wrongs bloom kelly

[–] RobertAnderson2@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry But still skeptical that most right wing americans on Twitter are Foreigners.

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Could that feature get tricked by VPNs or do we know for sure that’s where the accounts were actually being run from

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

From what it seems, the Vpn showed exclamation marks on the locations