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  • die_livster@lemmygrad.mltoWorld News@lemmygrad.ml•Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic
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    19 days ago

    Why is Reuters claiming that propagandizing Americans was not allowed when, I believe, the patriot act gave them permission to do just that?

    us dod is only legally allowed to conduct psyop domestically during national emergencies - such as covid.

    I recall operation songbird (?) was this exact thing?

    mockingbird was the recruitment of news journalists, media figures, left wing commentators, etc. (so the parallel would be the authors of this article)

    Also why is the military the ones doing this? Does the CIA outsource their dumber operations to the military?

    most us psyop falls under the military

    And once again why are they even admitting to any of this?

    a few guesses at motives: 1// you noted that they aren’t allowed to target us audiences and they make it clear in the article. 2// concealing their capabilities - the images & text posts they show are unsophisticated. they say facebook employees easily identified posts. 3// they lay the blame on trump, biden is the dod’s preferred candidate.

    my paranoid stoner ass best effort anyway

  • die_livster@lemmygrad.mltoBooks@lemmygrad.ml•Discussion Thread: What are you reading in terms of fiction AND non-fiction? - #1
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    5 months ago

    here’s the 3 books im reading at the moment :)

    i saw this one posted about a bunch on the bear website, im about a quarter of the way through and i can say it’s already taught me a lot about myself. the author discusses at length the challenges faced by primarily autistic people, but also adhd people, and neurodiverse people in general. im going to make my girlfriend read it too >:^)

    this is quite a well written biography of the ancient chinese poet li bai, we follow li through his life as he struggles to be taken seriously by the chinese elite. the author does seem to be a lib though and it comes through a couple of times.

    this is i think pynchon’s debut novel, im about 70% through. im not sure what to make of it: beautiful prose, harsh realities, im thoroughly engrossed and also feel as though i have no idea what’s going on. the book lights up all the right parts of my brain for conspiracy shit

    i recently finished anna karenina, it’s my favourite book. Lenin on Tolstoy: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1910/nov/16d.htm