• NewLeaf
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    10 months ago

    It's kind of how you can tell if something is real or not.

    Are ghosts real? Is hypnosis real?

    No. Otherwise the government would be weaponizing it. The best they have is bullshit like "Havana syndrome" propaganda.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      governments are also inept in a lot of ways, and a lot of the times their goals aren't compatible with the particular X thing in question, or don't need it

      using your logic climate change isn't real because the US isn't doing anything about it (and actively making it worse)

      • NewLeaf
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        10 months ago

        True. Maybe they can't get ghosts to cooperate.

        Comrade ghosts! "There is a spectre..."

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      10 months ago

      To be fair, the US believed that mine control could work and drugged a bunch of people. The end result is that there are suspicious events that were a product of MKULTRA, but it was mainly the supposed subjects losing their minds and becoming murderers and musicians without much useful espionage skills

      • NewLeaf
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        10 months ago

        All they really accomplished was inventing the Grateful Dead.