• yesman@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    14
    ·
    1 day ago

    Shortly after 911, someone told me that if you’re going to do something to the US that she’s never done to anyone else, you’re going to need 3 nuclear weapons.

    I thought it was egregious at the time.

  • volore@scribe.disroot.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 day ago

    I’mma be real with you G, it would probably be easier to list the things the U.S. government is not willing to do.

  • terranoid@lemmy.cafe
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 day ago

    I’ve literally been given telepathy tests as a child in the 90s during the GATE testing, for gifted and talented youth. The US government does some WEIRD shit, and behind your parents’ backs.

    • volore@scribe.disroot.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      MKULTRA: “Can we mind control people?” (no) “Can we make truth serum?” (no) “Can we just straight up dose random people with LSD without them knowing?” (…yes. Yes We Can.) and a whole lot more questions the CIA decided they needed answering.

      Tuskegee Experiment: Deliberately infecting black men with syphilis, not telling them, and not treating it. You know, for science!

      Poisoning foster children: I’unno.

      Poisoning St. Louis: Probably Operation LAC? Spraying toxic chemicals over St. Louis and other locations, testing how biological or chemical agents would disperse.

      MKNAOMI: “Unclassified information about the MKNAOMI program and the related Special Operations Division is scarce. It is generally reported to be a successor to the MKULTRA project focusing on biological projects including biological warfare agents—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.” – Wikipedia

      Operation Mockingbird: The CIA leaning on the press to sway public opinion against communism.

      Operation Northwoods: proposed false flag terrorist attacks to justify a war against Cuba. quote: “The possibilities detailed in the document included the remote control of civilian aircraft which would be secretly repainted as US Air Force planes, a fabricated ‘shoot down’ of a US Air Force fighter aircraft off the coast of Cuba, the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, exploding a US ship, and orchestrating terrorism in US cities.”

      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        18 hours ago

        Deliberately infecting black men with syphilis

        there is no credible evidence suggesting the patients were infected deliberately. they didn’t have to tell them, because they knew they had it. what was hidden from them is the fact they were not being treated, while being told otherwise.

        the reality of the experiment is pretty gruesome if you stick to the facts, no need to make up new ones.

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

        • volore@scribe.disroot.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          4 hours ago

          oh, huh, I thought it involved infecting them too, I didn’t bother checking out the wikipedia page when I was writing my comment. Wouldn’t be the first time we’d give people diseases in the name of science if we had but I’ll edit my comment