From 1953-1973 the CIA conducted hundreds of clandestine experiments—sometimes on unwitting U.S. citizens—to assess the potential use of LSD and other drugs for mind control, information gathering and psychological torture. This top secret project was called MK Ultra.
The project began during the Cold War era when CIA director Allan Dulles approved it. It was in response to the fear that the Soviets, Chinese, and North Koreans were using mind control on American POWs. The operation aimed to develop techniques that could be used against Soviet bloc enemies to control human behavior with drugs and other psychological manipulators.
The program involved more than 150 human experiments involving psychedelic drugs, paralytics and electroshock therapy. Sometimes the test subjects knew they were participating in a study, but at other times, they had no idea, even when the hallucinogens started taking effect.Â
Ken Kesey (author of One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber), and James Joseph “Whitey” Bulger (Boston mobster) were some of more notable participants of the program.
Most “testing” was conducted in universities, hospitals, or prisons. The record keeping was very poor and most documents pertaining to the program was destroyed when it ended in 1973.
The fact that most people in the UK don’t seem to get the irony that after essentially banning firearms ownership completely the murder rate with knives skyrocketed so that they’ve had to start the confiscation process all over again.Â
Gee, guys it’s almost like objects don’t compel individuals to perpetrate evil. It’s almost like the desire to attack, maim, and kill others exists within the human psyche regardless of outside influences.Â
You will never regulate or confiscate your way to Utopia.Â
It’s weird, every time throughout histories where some great reform is looming over the market, all these capitalists go “Don’t do that, we’ll go out of business!”
But then the reform passes and nothing happens. Like not even a price raise. It’s almost as if it’s all bullshit
“PLEASE do not make me fire 9 year olds from my factory the whole system will COLLAPSE”
In Oregon scare tactics caused voters to vote down a corporate tax that would have fixed our massively broken budget and pay for basically everything. They said that if we passed the bill prices on everything would go up. The pro bill people tried to show people store ads from other states that already have the tax and say “look! Milk costs the same everywhere!” But they were hillarious underfunded in their efforts compared to the huge chain stores and the bill failed
I saw a sad facebook post from the gay bookstore back in Ann Arbor where I used to live about how they hadn’t sold any books that day so I went on their online store and bought a couple, and while you don’t get #deals like elsewhere online, I’d love it if y’all would consider buying your next gay book from them instead of like, Amazon.
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Sometimes Tumblr is a force for good. :’)
Oh man, even more to this story that makes me even more happy.
if i was a pirate captain i would get a movie projector and play a movie on the big sails every friday night for my boys to kick back and enjoy some time off unless we were under attack
Pirates legit did the 16-17th century equivalent of this. When things were slow, they would put on plays, act out dramas of stories they knew, or freestyle. The most preferred model of original productions was courtroom drama: “trying” each other for piracy. The “accused” would list off their many, dramatically and humorously embellished crimes, and be equally dramatically sentenced. Sometimes there was a daring escape, sometimes just a really maudlin death scene, but a good time was had by all.
Sometimes I feel like pirate life would be really cool.
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– technically, the town isn’t south park, it’s fairplay. south park is the area. it’s the southern end of park county.
– south park the show looks much better than south park the town
– there is a south park the show themed gift shop
– there’s an open air museum about mining or whatever called “south park city” but its boring
– this exists. its one of those put your face in the hole things.Â
– it isn’t as a snowy & cold as the show makes it seemÂ
– the only questions i get when i mention i’m from colorado are either about weed or south park. this is not an exaggeration
– casa bonita is real and its horrible. please save yourself. never ever go into casa bonita. this place is technically in lakewood, a bit northeast of south park
– we do get cosplayers, but they’re few and far between. let’s keep it that way. trust me, there’s a stigma.
– north park exists, but there’s no such thing as east park or west park
– a few months ago there was this dude called the south park flag man who lived in a hole in the ground surrounded by like 100 american flags right off the side of highway 24. eventually the city council was like fuck that and tore all his shit down. i dont know what he’s been up to since.Â
– south park is not the worst hick mountain town in colorado. the worst it pitkin. fuck pitkin. it’s the weirdest place i’ve ever been in my whole life. i’m 80% sure it isn’t a real town.Â
– pretty much everyone under 30 watches the show but no one will admit it? it’s weird
Also most people who live in the real “South Park” really don’t want to be associated with the show.
Casa Bonita is horrible but worth the visit just to see how horrible it is.
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 