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Garmin7
NVGoddesscottage
Ummm can we get the specs on the heart attack gun??
tesseract4d2
I've looked into the heart attack gun, and honestly it looks like horseshit. The poison could do what is claimed, but the supposed gun itself doesn't hold up. It's basically a coil dart gun, but the gun is so short, you'd have to be in close proximity in which case it'd be easier to just poke them with a syringe by hand.
Modern dart pistols could absolutely manage this, though.
TexMexHex
If you, at any point in your entire life, thought this country was the greatest in the world....you have always been the cancer. Education is frowned upon.
OsirisWhite
Just so it's clear, when Republicans say they don't want CRT taught, the above information is what they mean. They really, really, really don't want you to know about the Tuskegee syphilis study. Or redlining. Or the recorded on-tape statements made by the Nixon and Reagan administrations that said exactly how they were targeting black people with their laws.
nekosupernova
If anyone is curious about #1 the book "The Poisoner's Handbook" by Deborah Blum actually has a section about it with more details. The whole book is pretty fascinating, actually.
AyatollahBahloni
Shithole country, you say?
amp99
#9 Gary Webb is not a good source (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Dark_Alliance_series). Note about his "suspicious" death is nonsense; first shot went through his face without major damage (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death ), and there are a number of documented cases of multiple gunshot suicide (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_gunshot_suicide ). His ex-wife said she thought it was suicide, and he was financially struggling with a ruined reputation.
kerrigan778
Its inclusion as fact when I know it's misleading and dishonest BS calls the rest into question as well. FWIW I know the Gulf of Tonkin incident is pretty much exactly as described here.
byronwilliams4010
It only SEEMS like this is an especially important time for us to remind ourselves of this. We should ALWAYS keep this knowledge in our consciousness as Americans.
1Ofold
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SprinklesMckitten
I'm not saying the cia didnt drop a car full of guns in LA.
I'm saying i have met enough people that would forget they had a fuckton of automatic weapons in a car, people who would take a car without checking the trunk, and people who would straight up loose their car in the worst way possible
and I have full faith these people could all get drunk and work for law enforcement at the same time in the 1970s
WhiskyBravo
our tax dollars at work :(
kindpanda
#6 this is horrifying, but Smedley Butler is an objectively hilarious name
Hashbrown123
He was a hell of a Devil Dog though.
kindpanda
So glad they don't do anything like that anymore!
cloudwalkerxx
pareidoliaperson
ISIS (mostly consisting of western converts), proxy war in middle east, 7 okt (IDF not reporting, or more like IDF were behind it). Especially terrorism and the right wing irrational Islamophobia propaganda that helped soften the blow and avoid large protests/create one sided protests that were heavily criticised in media. It is no surprise the right is entirely somehow pro-Jews/pro-Israel.
KillingTlme
They just don't bother hiding it anymore.
notifybay151
netutoring
Yeah, now they don't bother keeping it secret.
RicochetSaw
Here sir you dropped this: /s
kindpanda
I was hoping it would be inferred. I guess not🤷
BuchiKottiMa
Not like that, but probably worse.
ExTechOp
#1 That contaminant should be "methanol", methane is a gas at room temperature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol
medsal15
Osiricus
This world is awful and corrupt. Those in power will do anything to keep it in the hands of the few. The human race is hopeless.
sumthinsumthinsumthin
Aqqqq12
Wow
graehall
Always Have Been.astronaut meme
BlueskydragonFX
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
LompHoofd
Aqqqq12
Wow
Dapperworth
NotThatPrivate
The Business Plot should be taught in every school. If Smedly Butler had not recently come to the conclusion that the US Imperialism he had been instrumental in facilitating was, in fact, *bad* we would have had a government takeover by rich assholes much earlier
PigsWeGetWhatPigsDeserve
“God’s own country.”
habslove
You mean the US goverment has killed people to support their agenda and then lied about it? Shocked! I'm shocked I say!
SoberAndBored
The FBI frame job on Ma Barker was so good Boney M did a song about how evil she was: Ma Barker knew her sons and their friends were criminals, and helped them by letting them stay with her / hide out with her, but she never planned or participated in their crimes. She and her son Fred were killed when Fred opted to shoot it out with the FBI rather than surrender. When he found out his fledgling Bureau had killed an unarmed 61 year old woman, J Edgar Hoover spun the lies about her
SoberAndBored
being a criminal mastermind, and that a gun had been found next to her body.
KingOfTheImgurians
I love when idiots try to say, "But this all happened in the past; we have to move on." I'm like, The Tuskegee Experiments were running 53 years ago. Many of the people who participated, willingly or unwillingly, are still alive. So much of this happened in such recent times that I feel like people don't want to face the truth for fear of accepting that the US is not always perfect. Love my country. But I love it realistically, like a grown-up.
therealalansmithee
OP forgot to include Operation DOGE
Dergen89
OP posted this 9 years ago.
cbale2000
hereforthememes420
#6 Only took 90 years, but they finally did it. Same as back then, no one will be charged with anything in today's nazi oligarch administration. Just imagine what the takes would be if the Biden administration was dismantling democracy like this. Meal Team Six and the Gravy Seals would lose their minds, but it's ok now because Mango Mussolini is their guy. Bet your tits I'll be at the next 50501 protest here in CT! We had over 1,000 people show up in Hartford in icy, 20 degree weather yesterday.
secularink
Citation needed.
Some of these are actually not true. Some of these are actually true. No need to spread conspiracy theories.
3greathermes
Speaking personally, fact checking is my fetish.
TheWarHymn
#1 This was industrial alcohol they were denaturing, definitely not intended for human consumption. What happened was workers or criminals were stealing it and selling it to unsuspecting customers.
gesel
The fact checking is good, but who doesn't love a good conspiracy theory? Only aliens don't because their brains didn't evolve that way, scientific fact, therefore aliens and the spawn of alien human breeding experiments still ongoing since the 50s at Area 51, all hate conspiracy theories, just like you seem to. I'm just saying ...
FermentTheRich3000
Well done.
TeofiloPaolucci
#3 is *probably* false, I know Mythbusters isn't a perfect source but they did test ice bullets at one point, where every bullet effectively vaporized or shattered instantly. Anything that is supposed to melt in the human body couldn't withstand the heat and pressure traditional firearms create, and anything pneumatic probably doesn't have enough power to penetrate regular clothes and skin.
spittytrinkles
When Snowden revealed the American Government was illegally spying on and surveilling their own population, Government swore that they would change things and promised that they would then operate within the law. They didn't change their illegal behavior to fit within the Law, they Changed the Law to Allow their Illegal Behavior! Then branded Snowden as a Traitor.
BrdCdn
I mean Snowden was definitely a traitor and Russian asset, regardless of what he uncovered.
SaturnineCult
Traitor to who? Because he was not betraying american people, quite the opposite.
BrdCdn
If he had just leaked the illegal stuff that may have been true. But he just dumped everything including names of spys and sources in countries like Russia and China. He got alot of people killed. He just recklessly dumped everything except for sensitive stuff about Russia suspiciously. Then he fleets to Russia and now works for their propaganda outlet RT. He was absolutely a traitor and spy.
SaturnineCult
I had the impression that it was Trump who sold all US spy info to Russia and middle east?
BrdCdn
That was all before Trump won. Trump absolutely sold more information, probably including even more classified and important details that Snowden wouldn't have had access to. Hitler was for animal rights for example but that doesn't not make him a fucking monster. Snowden may have exposed some shit, but he went weeeelllllll beyond that and is absolutely a Russian asset. Remember the GOP used the Snowden thing to beat up on the Dems as this happened under them.
DirectorFury
He didn't flee to Russia. The US government strategically waited until he was he had a layover at a Russian and revoked his passport so he couldn't leave. The American government intentionally trapped him in Russia.
ilovebigmutts
America is the largest and deadliest terrorist organization in the world.
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jesuisgur
And with ubiquist surveillance combined with AI analytics, there'll be no way out. As soon as you threaten the state, you'll get a home visit...
SaturnineCult
Minority Report is coming with the AI.
parabolic000
IDK, Great Britain has a lot more history, China loves murdering its own, and the Roman Catholic Church has likely been protecting child rapists for some 1600 years. Now at present? Maybe...but USAID (and I know Trump's White House froze its funding) is the world's largest single welfare and public health program. The United States does a shitton of good, but unfortunately we elected Nazis and that'll all fall apart.
unluckyandbored
*was
Slickdoodle
It's so awesome that the worst people end up in positions to do this stuff. I'd give my eye-teeth for an answer to that particular problem.
TexMexHex
Always has been
RedStarVidal
Is Russia, China, France, the UK, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Madagascar a joke to you?
InTangier
Thr Netherlands, Belgium, etc. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that the US did all those things in under 100 years. Many of the horrors of colonialism were perpetrated over centuries. The US bodycount, and crazy fuckery, even inside its own borders was pretty competitive. Idk if they felt they had a lot of catching up to do, but they sure went at it.
Plus, OP isn't even mentioning the other proxy wars and coups,the list is just too long.
Strategicgnomer
They're soooooo last century.
onelandlubber
What did madagascar do
RedStarVidal
They know what they did with those films! I like to move it move it is a war crime. So many children have been singing that song for so long, I can't take it 😩
Arkandos
Rebatu
Yes
RedStarVidal
Power comment.
spittytrinkles
America uses Propaganda on its own populace more than all of these nations combined.
RedStarVidal
Nha, in Europe, we also have propaganda, and in Russia / China there are outright speech restrictions.
spittytrinkles
I don't deny that other Nations use Propaganda on their own people, but nowhere near the American level.
RedStarVidal
In my opinion it's about the same. There are slight differences in its delivery, but it's about as effective. Just my honest opinion.
HypersonicHero
Holy crap are you so fucking wrong on that point lol.
HypersonicHero
I mean the literal case in point is that this post is allowed to even exist. You think someone can post something like this in Russia or China about their own country?
RedStarVidal
Nha - apparently, having yard signs is the height of propaganda haha.
GordonFreeman59
Textbook example of whataboutism.
RedStarVidal
Nha, just giving credit where it's also due.
GordonFreeman59
Largest and deadliest means "the worst". Not "the only one". Simple grammar.
RedStarVidal
I mean, China killed up to 55 million people during the great leap forward, so I would say anyone who genuinely believes the US to be 'the wost' as very, very niave. Simple history.