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2 psyops for you

1. the gain of function lab leak idea. This one is a psyop because it conveniently makes sure that both sides are afraid of a virus. This keeps the dissenting side in check, because it was the virus that killed grandma, not deadly protocols which recommended midazolam, ventilators etc for a positive test.

2. weather modification. people are sure that this is happening, and maybe it is. But I don't think it is anywhere near as sophisticated as people think it is. I do see them spraying the sky, and they say they want to block the sun. I don't agree with any of that. But I am not convinced that they are able to reliably control the weather, for many reasons. Here are 2 reasons. At this time it is very popular to speak about weather modification on SM. That is a red flag. It is as if this is what they want people to talk about right now, instead of talking about COVID (that is what I think)

When you question weather modification people get very angry. Reminds me of COVID. Except these were people who I thought were for "freedom". So in my opinion asking questions is part of freedom.

Commonly people rebut any questions with "they admit that they are doing it" my answer, "they admit that they saved lives with the transfection and counter measures for COVID" . And another rebuttal is " they have patents" in my opinion having a patent is not proof of anything.

People want to talk about it because it feels so rewarding, you get a lot of attention by talking about it. Also it works well with the climate change narrative because how will it be stopped? By shutting down air travel. Same solution that the climate change people want.

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I’m inclined to believe that 9/11 Truth is another. From this article: https://hive.blog/ramblerant/@jacobtothe/politically-homeless

"Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" is true, but steel doesn't need to melt in order to fail structurally, but the fire probably wouldn't have reached even those temperatures, but the impact certainly could have dislodged protective materials and further weakened the structure, but the building was designed to withstand aircraft impact, yet the planes were bigger and fully laden... Yeah, it's still a mess, and I don't have the time or inclination to chase down every possible question for solid answers.

In short, it’s another thing that completely wastes the time of anyone who gets involved.

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Many weird conspiracy theories and cults could in fact be data collection operations. Start a Flat Earth newsletter, and in no time you have a list of emails of gullible individuals who can then be, erm, employed for other purposes. (Flat Earth however is far from perfect as many folks are in it just for fun, cf. Flying Spaghetti Monster cult.)

We often tend to view the government as a bunch of arrogant southpoles who think they know it all and don't care if their knowledge is true; that distracts from the fact that deeper parts of the government are still running data collection / profiling at full steam.

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I really respect and like this article. I had not heard of the military reform one. Q anon was obvious from the get go. Tho i think of it in a slightly different way, when i sus things out. Is the theory coherent and have some alignment with other provable facts? (most are not) and is it suggesting a denial of personal agency. (as in sit back and watch the show! or worse, do something stupid like apologies for slavery to someone you do not even know or wait for the ancient alien gods to return) certain church denominations also benefits from flat earth. just as they benefit from denial of evolution. Life is just too complex for some folks, they do not have the mental juice to deal. they want a simple short story that will tell them what they should feel about whom. I look forward to you future articles.

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