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minus-squareWeedian [he/him]hexbear34·2 years agoCIA used to hide speakers in the jungle in Vietnam to play spooky ghost recordings in Vietnamese telling the locals not to fight link
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]hexbear16·2 years agoI've heard excerpts from those tapes and they are incredibly weird link
minus-squareDingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]hexbear19·2 years agoAnd apparently they didn't work at all, even a little bit link
minus-squareGrouchyGrouse [he/him]hexbear16·2 years agoHonestly if you look it up they sound so weird I'd be surprised if large numbers took them seriously Like it just comes across as racist. "We're gonna scare these brown people with obvious recordings and they can't tell the difference so why not?" link
minus-squareFrank [he/him, he/him]hexbear3·2 years agoFrom what i gather the US never remotely understood the Vietnamese cause and had complete racist and fascist contempt for them, in the vein of "fascist ideology makes it impossible to accurately assess the strength of your enemies". link
CIA used to hide speakers in the jungle in Vietnam to play spooky ghost recordings in Vietnamese telling the locals not to fight
I've heard excerpts from those tapes and they are incredibly weird
And apparently they didn't work at all, even a little bit
Honestly if you look it up they sound so weird I'd be surprised if large numbers took them seriously
Like it just comes across as racist. "We're gonna scare these brown people with obvious recordings and they can't tell the difference so why not?"
From what i gather the US never remotely understood the Vietnamese cause and had complete racist and fascist contempt for them, in the vein of "fascist ideology makes it impossible to accurately assess the strength of your enemies".