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That's a coal rolling situation right there brotha.
She's not cutting them slack, she is one of them. Uniparty.
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Could it be payback for blm killing 8 Dallas pd officers?
I was thinking Sinaloa cartel but that would make sense too.
With ‘Stairway’ on the comms?
Dude looks like a real loser so I could see him just aiming at the van and unloading a clip. I could also see it being something else and he didn't "kil himself".
Controlled opposition.
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How Propaganda Built for Enemies Abroad was Turned Inward — and How it Divided America.
For seventy years, our government built tools of influence — from Cold War mind-control experiments, to propaganda laws aimed overseas, to billion-dollar brain studies and social-media algorithms. Those weapons were never meant for us. But in 2013, under Obama, the firewall fell, and the science, the funding, and the platforms all converged.
This post lays out the history step by step — and I’ve included sources so you can track it yourself. Follow the trail, see when the wall came down, and decide for yourself when America’s unity turned into permanent division.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.
It didn’t happen overnight. This is a seven-decade arc that starts with tools built to influence foreign peoples and ends with those same tools being legally, technically, and financially able to shape thought inside the United States.
In the Cold War the CIA ran MKUltra, a secret effort in the 1950s–70s to learn how chemical agents, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and psychological tricks could break and re-assemble a human mind. It was supposed to be about enemies and interrogations — about controlling hostile actors abroad — but the program’s abuses were so extreme they were exposed in the 1970s and most files were destroyed. The record that remains proves the agency learned how fragile minds can be and how they can be manipulated. CIA MKUltra records – cia.gov/readingroom/document/00146165
At the same time our government built an outward-facing information machine. The Smith–Mundt framework (1948) created official channels — broadcasts, cultural exchange, publications — expressly designed to influence foreign populations. Crucially, that law included a firewall: those materials were not to be used on Americans. That protection lasted more than six decades. U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 – Congress.gov
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯.
That year the Smith–Mundt protections were altered so material produced for foreign audiences could be made available domestically — the legal firewall was effectively torn down. 2013 was also the year the Obama White House launched the BRAIN Initiative, a massive public-private push to map and decode human neural circuits — money and tools poured into understanding, measuring and modeling the brain.
Smith–Mundt Modernization Act, NDAA 2013 – Congress.gov | Obama BRAIN Initiative – WhiteHouse.gov archive
And 2011–2013 saw neuroscience papers showing measurable differences in how political groups process information. Functional MRI studies reported different patterns of brain activity in Democrats versus Republicans; in the 2013 study researchers could predict party ID from brain responses with striking accuracy. That’s not propaganda by itself — but paired with funding and legal access, it becomes a usable model for targeted influence. Schreiber et al. 2013, PLOS ONE | Kanai et al. 2011, Current Biology
Meanwhile the platforms arrived. Facebook, Twitter and others transformed public communication. Facebook’s 2012 news-feed experiment (published 2014) showed that altering what people see changes how they feel and act — a controlled proof that algorithms plus data can move emotion at scale. Combine that with campaign data science — modern campaigns (including Obama’s 2008/2012 efforts) professionalized voter modeling and targeted persuasion — and you have the distribution and targeting engine that can push polished narratives into millions of feeds. Facebook “emotional contagion” study – PNAS 2014 | NYT: How Obama’s Team Used Data – 2012
𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗰.
After 9/11 Americans rallied — left and right stood together with unusually high trust and shared patriotism. The political division we wrestle with today did not look like that immediately after 9/11. The real rupture grew over time as the tools above matured, and one of the clearest inflection points in the architecture of influence came in the years around the end of President Obama’s second term. The legal gate (Smith–Mundt changes in 2013), the science (BRAIN funding and brain-politics studies), and the distribution (platforms and campaign analytics) converged — not in isolation, but together — and that convergence created the modern machinery of influence. (For polling and analysis showing rising polarization across this period, see Pew Research: Political Polarization 1994–2017)
𝗣𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆:
What was once propaganda for them became legally available to us in 2013; what MKUltra taught about susceptibility was never unlearned; neuroscience began to map the very neural differences tied to political identity; and social platforms proved they could move feelings and attention across entire populations. That is the architecture that turns messaging into mass influence.
The political consequences followed. Campaigns learned to weaponize moral emotion. Messaging that triggers internalized moral outrage—the kind that research shows often resonates strongly with liberal identity—was crafted differently than messaging that plays to conservative concerns about institutions and order. When you know the emotional levers different groups respond to, you can tailor narratives that stoke outrage, fear, or moral certainty on demand. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 “𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲” 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱. Stanford research on moral-emotion & ideology
We also saw the government and platforms begin to coordinate on what content would be labeled, deprioritized, or removed during major crises — public-health debates, election claims, and other flashpoints. Litigation like the suits originally called Missouri v. Biden (later reviewed by the Supreme Court as Murthy v. Missouri) made clear there were extensive communications between federal officials and platforms about content moderation, and that courts have since been forced to weigh how those interactions affect free speech. SCOTUSblog: Murthy v. Missouri case page
𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝘀?
After 9/11 Americans could still stand together. Over time — through the combination of hidden research into mind control, the dismantling of legal protections in 2013, big-money brain science, academic findings about partisan brains, and platform experiments and campaign analytics — the apparatus to manufacture mass political emotion and divide a country was built and turned inward. This is not conspiracy; it’s a convergence of programs, funding, science, law and technology that when pulled together writes an instruction manual for influence.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 MKUltra’s public record.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 the Smith–Mundt modernization text.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 the BRAIN Initiative announcements and the brain-politics studies.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 the Facebook experiment and the Pew trends on polarization.
Pull those threads and decide: when did the wall come down for you? When did the politics you remember — the one where Americans could grieve and stand together after 9/11 — become the permanent culture-war we now live in?
𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱.
𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆.
𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁.
Writers credit: follow Michael McCune
For seventy years, our government built tools of influence — from Cold War mind-control experiments, to propaganda laws aimed overseas, to billion-dollar brain studies and social-media algorithms. Those weapons were never meant for us. But in 2013, under Obama, the firewall fell, and the science, the funding, and the platforms all converged.
This post lays out the history step by step — and I’ve included sources so you can track it yourself. Follow the trail, see when the wall came down, and decide for yourself when America’s unity turned into permanent division.
𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 — 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀. 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳.
It didn’t happen overnight. This is a seven-decade arc that starts with tools built to influence foreign peoples and ends with those same tools being legally, technically, and financially able to shape thought inside the United States.
In the Cold War the CIA ran MKUltra, a secret effort in the 1950s–70s to learn how chemical agents, hypnosis, sensory deprivation and psychological tricks could break and re-assemble a human mind. It was supposed to be about enemies and interrogations — about controlling hostile actors abroad — but the program’s abuses were so extreme they were exposed in the 1970s and most files were destroyed. The record that remains proves the agency learned how fragile minds can be and how they can be manipulated. CIA MKUltra records – cia.gov/readingroom/document/00146165
At the same time our government built an outward-facing information machine. The Smith–Mundt framework (1948) created official channels — broadcasts, cultural exchange, publications — expressly designed to influence foreign populations. Crucially, that law included a firewall: those materials were not to be used on Americans. That protection lasted more than six decades. U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 – Congress.gov
𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟯.
That year the Smith–Mundt protections were altered so material produced for foreign audiences could be made available domestically — the legal firewall was effectively torn down. 2013 was also the year the Obama White House launched the BRAIN Initiative, a massive public-private push to map and decode human neural circuits — money and tools poured into understanding, measuring and modeling the brain.
Smith–Mundt Modernization Act, NDAA 2013 – Congress.gov | Obama BRAIN Initiative – WhiteHouse.gov archive
And 2011–2013 saw neuroscience papers showing measurable differences in how political groups process information. Functional MRI studies reported different patterns of brain activity in Democrats versus Republicans; in the 2013 study researchers could predict party ID from brain responses with striking accuracy. That’s not propaganda by itself — but paired with funding and legal access, it becomes a usable model for targeted influence. Schreiber et al. 2013, PLOS ONE | Kanai et al. 2011, Current Biology
Meanwhile the platforms arrived. Facebook, Twitter and others transformed public communication. Facebook’s 2012 news-feed experiment (published 2014) showed that altering what people see changes how they feel and act — a controlled proof that algorithms plus data can move emotion at scale. Combine that with campaign data science — modern campaigns (including Obama’s 2008/2012 efforts) professionalized voter modeling and targeted persuasion — and you have the distribution and targeting engine that can push polished narratives into millions of feeds. Facebook “emotional contagion” study – PNAS 2014 | NYT: How Obama’s Team Used Data – 2012
𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗿𝗰.
After 9/11 Americans rallied — left and right stood together with unusually high trust and shared patriotism. The political division we wrestle with today did not look like that immediately after 9/11. The real rupture grew over time as the tools above matured, and one of the clearest inflection points in the architecture of influence came in the years around the end of President Obama’s second term. The legal gate (Smith–Mundt changes in 2013), the science (BRAIN funding and brain-politics studies), and the distribution (platforms and campaign analytics) converged — not in isolation, but together — and that convergence created the modern machinery of influence. (For polling and analysis showing rising polarization across this period, see Pew Research: Political Polarization 1994–2017)
𝗣𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗹𝘆:
What was once propaganda for them became legally available to us in 2013; what MKUltra taught about susceptibility was never unlearned; neuroscience began to map the very neural differences tied to political identity; and social platforms proved they could move feelings and attention across entire populations. That is the architecture that turns messaging into mass influence.
The political consequences followed. Campaigns learned to weaponize moral emotion. Messaging that triggers internalized moral outrage—the kind that research shows often resonates strongly with liberal identity—was crafted differently than messaging that plays to conservative concerns about institutions and order. When you know the emotional levers different groups respond to, you can tailor narratives that stoke outrage, fear, or moral certainty on demand. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 “𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲” 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱. Stanford research on moral-emotion & ideology
We also saw the government and platforms begin to coordinate on what content would be labeled, deprioritized, or removed during major crises — public-health debates, election claims, and other flashpoints. Litigation like the suits originally called Missouri v. Biden (later reviewed by the Supreme Court as Murthy v. Missouri) made clear there were extensive communications between federal officials and platforms about content moderation, and that courts have since been forced to weigh how those interactions affect free speech. SCOTUSblog: Murthy v. Missouri case page
𝗦𝗼 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝘀?
After 9/11 Americans could still stand together. Over time — through the combination of hidden research into mind control, the dismantling of legal protections in 2013, big-money brain science, academic findings about partisan brains, and platform experiments and campaign analytics — the apparatus to manufacture mass political emotion and divide a country was built and turned inward. This is not conspiracy; it’s a convergence of programs, funding, science, law and technology that when pulled together writes an instruction manual for influence.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 MKUltra’s public record.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 the Smith–Mundt modernization text.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 the BRAIN Initiative announcements and the brain-politics studies.
𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 the Facebook experiment and the Pew trends on polarization.
Pull those threads and decide: when did the wall come down for you? When did the politics you remember — the one where Americans could grieve and stand together after 9/11 — become the permanent culture-war we now live in?
𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱.
𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆.
𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁.
Writers credit: follow Michael McCune
Still haven’t seen ID on the victims.
I think it’s more likely it’s something else and he didn’t “kill himself”. He was probably deceased before he got to the roof.
Bringing out some real blasts from the past tonigh.
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