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ziggywiggy's avatar

And no crop dusting while riding INSIDE the plane either!

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In World War One, the use of chemical weapons was notoriously unreliable. A shift in the wind, and the poison gas cloud you fired at the enemy was sent back to your troops.

In the 1960's, the CIA tried experiments on unknowing individuals with "mind control" chemicals on people. They failed to show any evidence that they worked and the CIA agents involved indulged in LSD and mushrooms themselves for funsies.

Turns out it is still much easier and more cost effective to get people to act outside of their own interests and move in a particular direction with propaganda that appeals to their biases and egos and prejudices. Stories that give them permission to be the horrible people they are on the inside. Stories that set up a quasi-divine figure as the great leader who will deliver them from the shadowy and scary world that surrounds them and threatens their wimmin and deep fried bacon bombs and coal rollin' mega trucks they don't use to haul shit and semi-automatic penis substitutes.

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