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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Funny how all the major parks in US cities and highways just happen to always destroy a minority neighborhood.

[–] brianary@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago
[–] floppybiscuits@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Don't forget operation condor and the Jakarta method

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (5 children)
  • Boarding Schools.
  • Eugenics, including forced sterilization.
  • Nuclear weapons.
  • Internment of Japanese.
  • Hiring of Nazis after WWII, after inspiring them before WWII.
[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US helped to found and popularize the Nazi party. Ford and other industrialist literally bank rolled the Nazi empire. Ford built factories in Germany and let them keep the profits. Nazism was very popular in the US because its policies were based off US policies.

Hitler was inspired by the way the US genocided the Native Americans. This is where the Holocaust came from. When Hitler initially decided to expel the Jews wealthy industrialists lobbied the US government not to take them in. They helped stroke anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe and ensured that no other country would take them in.

This lead to the final solution. IBM and other US companies gave material support to the Nazi. Those numbers tattooed on Jewish prisoners were from a census system IBM developed. Later, they used their computing power to figure out how many jews to ship from the ghettos to the death camps without backing anything up. Basically they handled the logistics of the Holocaust.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

could you provide a source for all that? it sounds correct, but i never heard that side of the story before so i'd like to know more

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Mostly stuff I have read thoroughout my life, but I think someone wrote a book about IBMs part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

I think the Henry Ford stuff is verifiable on the Internet. You can also lookup pre WW2 Nazism in the US.

https://www.si.edu/object/hitlers-ostkrieg-and-indian-wars-comparing-genocide-and-conquest-edward-b-westermann%3Asiris_sil_1093304

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

thank you! :)

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hiring of Nazis after WWII, after inspiring them before WWII.

Don't leave out Unit 731, where they did shit that would make the Nazi's look like Jr high science experiments by comparison...who were given the exact same deals as Paperclipped Nazis

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Indeed, all for medical science and biological warfare. The good old USA gave small pox blankets to the Native Americans, then there's Operation Sea Spray, and now 45,000 croak directly from a piss poor healthcare system and 200,000 die from contributing factors. WTF kind of social experiment is that?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I never realized we hired those guys, too.

[–] TransNeko@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Don't forget that the US government gave Joseph Mengele a new identity. the Angel of Death... got a kiss on the lips, lots of money, and a good luck from America.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reconstruction failure, Jim Crow institutionalized which was the ultimate inspiration for the Nazis to model their claimed superior race society after.

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And afterwards, South Africa copied both their notes to build Apartheid.

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[–] Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 days ago (9 children)

As bad as people hate to admit it, this is pretty much the direct cause of anti vax people and shit like it.

The government pretty much created the problem itself by doing this stuff.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Henrietta Lacks

Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during her treatment for cervical cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey, who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research.[9] As was then the practice, no consent was required to culture the cells obtained from Lacks's treatment. Neither she nor her family were compensated for the extraction or use of the HeLa cells.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's such a tricky one because unlike the other examples, this has benefited humanity. There's no going back on it and until other cell lines are more common, we can't really discontinue using the HeLa cells.

At the very least though, that whole family shouldn't have to work a day in their lives from all the profits the private pharmaceutical have generated from it. If I was a part of that family, I'd demand a full ride scholarship from Johns Hopkins.

Her family fought a massive lawsuit about it, too. They didn't find out their mother's cancer was fueling genetic research until years after she passed away.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

This is why black people don't trust doctors.

antivax as a movement didnt come around until an asshole doctor lied about the safety of vaccines, to sell his own vaccine.. and took off like a rocket when that miserable Jenny McCunthy decided it had to be vaccines, and not genetics, that caused her not to give birth to the perfect blond haired blue eyed child she deserved.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Half of white medical trainees believe such myths as black people have thicker skin or less sensitive nerve endings than white people. An expert looks at how false notions and hidden biases fuel inadequate treatment of minorities’ pain.

https://www.aamc.org/news/how-we-fail-black-patients-pain

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

similar issue with the idea that women don't feel pain as bad as men.. leading to women complaining of pain being treated with eye rolls.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

There is much more than that. 9/11 is not even on this list and that was a huge wake up call for millions of people. Many millions distrusted the official covid story as well, the origins of the virus.

And the current war in iran is obviously not to prevent nuclear weapons. The strait of Hormuz is not going to open for many years. Because its intended and is part of a plan for how the worlds most important resources, like oil and fertilizer, is going to be limited in order to create massive problems in the world.

The YouTube Predictive History channel is talking about all of this, and the video Trump World Order is a must watch.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've never heard about the St.Louis Poisoning before.. Surely it cant be yet another immoral, insane, evil program targeting black americans, right?

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Fuck

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_LAC

sounds more like they released a lot of dust to check how far the wind carries it

what i don't get is why didn't they just use some non-toxic substance

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago
  1. because they werent testing on white people

  2. cause St.Louis specifically was a weapons test for the viability of using Zinc cadmium sulfide as a weapon against moscow

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[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh man, this brings back so many memories. Some of those aren’t even mine!

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You're my favorite person on here.

Wanna know some state secrets?

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno, how much you asking? And will it give me leverage over the leadership of a 3rd world country?

[–] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fifty acres and a mule. And only if my house is considered a third world country.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Deal! Hey, you ever thought about the prime minister of Malaysia at all? I had this Zoolander guy lined up but he flaked on me

Dude this isn't war thunder. Keep it in your pants for at least fifteen minutes until you log in over there

[–] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Username checks out.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
  • That never happened

  • There's no proof that happened

  • It's more complicated than you're describing

  • Those were just some bad actors

  • Okay, but that was under the Other Party. My Party would never do that

  • (Repeat 1. Thru 4.)

  • Okay but we're reforming now. You should give us some credit!

  • It's all in the past! Why do you keep bringing up Old Shit?!

  • Whataboutism

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This sounds like a modified Narcissist prayer.

[–] Prathas@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I was unaware that there was an original one.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 28 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Mkultra is STILL treated like some nut job conspiracy theory.

I bring it up as example of how the government will do whatever to whoever and lie for decades, fuck the consequences.

People look at me like I'm crazy, and plenty have even straight up told me mk ulta isn't real, is just a conspiracy, just an excuse for hippies who did too many drugs, any number of "that didn't happen" excuses. Including "if it actually happened, we would know". To which I responded "THEY FUCKING ADMITTED IT" and that was the end of the conversation because I cursed and therefore lost an "argument" I didn't know I was in...

Ohio is crazy...

So like, I've got one of those burned out hippies in my town. Who got burned out by mk ultra. And knows it. He's a hoot and a half if you can keep him laughing. Shows up to all the concerts in town.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Don't forget the Phoenix project. 85k Vietnamese civilians assassinated or tortured to death by the CIA.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Just outside of view:

- Human Radiation Experiments, Holmesburg Prison experiments, San Quentin Prison experiments, Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Studies, Guatemala Syphilis Experiment, Ohio State Penitentiary Cancer Study, Belmont Report

- Ludlow Massacre, Battle of Blair Mountain, Coal Wars

- Kent State Massacre, Jackson State Killings, Orangeburg Massacre

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Ron Funches' routine was great. "You don't believe any conspiracy theories? Like, you just believe the government is batting 1.000 in terms of telling the truth?"

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