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We live in a very not-brainwashed society 
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you can point out things the CIA has admitted to and libs will still think you're a crank. an astounding level of ignorance
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Had a friend basically say that the FBI and CIA used to be crazy, but they're totally above board nowadays
It's cause they're woke now.
Heard they allow LGBTQ employees into the Torture Division, what is the world coming to?
"Well Mr. Al-rafiq, if you don't want to tell us where the entrance to the Hamas tunnels is, we have ways of making you talk. Tell me...have you ever tried getting gender-affirming healthcare...in Mississippi?"
The new take him to Detroit
I miss the days when the CIA wasn't run by latina women with 3 children and generalized anxiety disorder 
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Yeah, love how I pointed out that Chomsky/Parenti shows that the news media is so compliant that Operation Mockingbird isn't even needed by the CIA anymore, and being treated as some unhinged crank by my friends.
Perceiving reality is crank behavior
Oh yeah, they go all "sure they used to do that but not anymore!" and then you just feel insane
I'm the shithead for pointing out we've figured out how to feed the world but instead throw half of our food away or more in order to maintain "the market."
My colleagues will look at me as if I'm insane if I even say the most mundane of statements like "infinite growth isn't possible"
uhm sweaty we have transitioned from a manufacturing to a service and financial based society and you can have infinite financial things happening because it's just bits flipping on a computer
also somehow that makes the world more gooder
It's very deliberate
It's a lot easier to dismiss an argument when you have the thought-terminating cliche of "Conspiracy Theory" ready for any statement that takes more than 3/5's of a second to explain
Never mind that the whole reason we have a distinct word for "conspiracy" is because it's a phenomenon that you encounter in the real world.
most propagandized population in 400,000 years of human history
Try asking them why they think its a conspiracy theory?
Barbie (Margot Robbie) is on the floor. Weird Barbie (Kate McKinnon) is asking her why she was immune to the patriarchy brainwashing.
Barbie: "My exposure to the real world must have made me immune. You're either brainwashed or you're weird and ugly. There is no in between.
Weird Barbie: "Sing it sister."
Hexbear is the Necronomicon. Reading it imparts knowledge which all seems reasonable to the reader, but to an outsider they are stark raving mad.
And also like a cursed tome, much of what drives you mad isn't the magic spells and alchemical sigils, but the secret histories, the sudden awareness of a world of agony and nightmare roiling just inches beneath the placid surface of our social pond, and the callous alien god-thing lurking beneath that even now feeds on us all (it's capital).
I have definitely used this to explain how it feels when learning about newly comprehensible man made horrors that have existed or are going to, back during year 1 of covid
But more or less the knowledge gained weighing heavily and making one mad, not so much the outsider peering in.
That sounds like plain old cognitive dissonance.
that's the point baybee
what things were you thinking about? I get it.
Lukewarm shit like "Office real estate business is why they want people to go back to the office"
Oh that stuff drives me crazy. I mentioned that exact thing during a meeting at work and people looked at me like I grew an extra head. I made some comment about Google having billions of dollars of real estate and someone actually replied by saying "cmon, I dont think Google cares about a couple billion dollars" like are you fucking nuts?? You think they got that rich by just leaving a couple billion on the ground??? its infuriating.