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chaogomu 19 points 4 hours ago

It's important to understand exactly what MK Ultra actually was, because the goals of the program shifted more than once.

MK Ultra at its heart, was an attempt by men who were more monstrous than competent to control reality. They acted as if consequences didn't exist, and for decades, they didn't.

By those standards, this shit keeps happening.

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chaogomu 6 points 4 hours ago

Fun fact, everyone already knew about those labs. They were built by the Soviets, and the US was invited in to help convert them to civilian use.

This has all been public for decades.

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chaogomu 29 points 11 hours ago

But he can take out massive loans on that valuation.

And that money can be used however he wants.

Also, the recent IPO was him collecting money from a lot of people, and since he got exempted into a few indexes, people's retirement money is now tied to Musky scams.

This means that if Musky does decide to cash out and crash the economy, he'll have an instant bailout.

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chaogomu 19 points 14 hours ago

This drug has already gone through Phase 1 human trials for a separate condition.

Phase 1 trials only test safety in healthy adults, but this drug passed. (Still awaiting the paper on the trial)

The delivery method was a once a day pill.

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chaogomu 6 points 11 hours ago

In the US it would be the easiest appeal for judicial bias ever filed.

In the UK? The rules are looser.

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chaogomu 0 points 17 hours ago
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chaogomu 24 points 2 days ago

The Catholic boarding schools in Ireland had mass rape and mass graves.

But the US and Canada had both as well. Coincidentally, also run by religious bigots.

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chaogomu -1 points 17 hours ago

Dictatorships are not their people, that's kind of the point.

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chaogomu -3 points 17 hours ago

Dictatorships are evil. Full stop.

A broken democracy is still better than a dictatorship, for the simple reason that even a broken democracy can change with the will of the people.

A dictatorship can only ever change by the will of the dictator, and they are only ever in it for themselves.

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chaogomu -4 points 17 hours ago

As opposed to the pro-genocide dictatorships of the East.

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chaogomu 5 points 2 days ago

Which is hard as fuck in a tunnel, but somehow we manage.

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chaogomu 79 points 4 days ago

Just drain it and then clean the paint off and sand it down to smooth out the stone again.

Then you can fill the pool with water that has been treated properly.

It's not hard, it just takes competent people being in charge of it. Not someone's "pool guy"

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chaogomu 16 points 3 days ago

I don't know, "Render unto Caeser" and all says that living under a government is part of the religion.

Never forget that Jesus commanded his followers to pay their fucking taxes.

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chaogomu 2 points 2 days ago

Simple, step one is regaining control of Congress this November.

Literally nothing will get better if Republicans continue to control Congress.

Step two is uncapping the House. There are already members of Congress with bills ready to go that would do just that.

Those two items would fix about 75% of America's problems.

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chaogomu -3 points 2 days ago

So your plan for change is to do nothing and hope, or worse, keep Republicans in power so that they can actively make things worse. Sure.

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chaogomu -3 points 2 days ago

You said "the west" as if the other major option not "the west" wasn't a totalitarian dictatorship.

Also, local councils and assemblies exist in the US, and they have power, but not quite enough.

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chaogomu 6 points 4 days ago

You can't say they did nothing.

That completely ignores all the theft, fraud, and bribery.

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chaogomu -6 points 2 days ago

So your big plan is either a cross between and unwinnable civil war and a terrorist movement guaranteed to drive people away from the cause.

Sure.

I'm not going to join in on your suicide by cop plan, but you go ahead. Pull a Luigi, make it count. Otherwise, wait until after November so that if wide scale uncivil disobedience becomes necessary, it will be seen as justified and not some psycho lashing out.

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chaogomu 0 points 2 days ago

Even at their worst, a democracy is far better than a dictatorship.

The problem is, as it ever was, first past the post voting.

Condorcet warned us, but it was too late for the US to escape it by then.

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chaogomu -6 points 2 days ago

What exactly do you expect them to do? Don't just say "something", be specific.

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