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In reply to the discussion: An attempted mind fuck ( otherwise known as psyops) [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)That is good. Because that is what that post was about. And to be honest, it is not the motives of the posters here.
Or the personalities for that matter.
At this point some of those Eastern European (or for that matter Mexican) jokes apply.
My favorite has to do with blind kittens. When the Berlin Wall fell, and the Stasi was finally taken to pieces... most East German Citizens were proof Positive that they were followed by the state. It came to be that 20% at tops were. That is a chilling number.
But they used to have many jokes to speak of what kind of a world they lived in. And I am seeing the exact same pattern taking hold in the United States.
That is party independent and the continuity of this goes well before Clinton (when many became aware of it, due to Echelon, another series of leaks, and Carnivore, yet another series of leaks)... it goes well back to 1947... the seeds for that were established then.
They flourished during the 1950s and 1960s with CONTRIELPRO, our own less violent version of the dirty wars... and so it has.
So no, I do not blame one POTUS for it... but I do not trust my government either. Have not trusted this government for a while to be exact. These leaks reveal Something ugly, but also the extent of the propaganda apparatus.
And the post was not meant as a call out... sorry you took it that way. It was meant as a blind kittens opening eyes.