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The Machine can only learn what it gets taught, and it gets taught to ignore me.

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Thank you Mathew for helping us see where we are.

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

Go to bed, spotty.

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Also, I watched that psyop video a few times now. It’s very well done, but tbh, it seems too well done. It uses several editing manipulation tactics and the video itself feels like a psyop designed by folks to make you think they’re a real cool psy op group. I can create something almost as good on my laptop and link to the army recruiting center too. I went to their Instagram account and it’s meh. Or did I miss the point and you thought that too because you pointed out the fact that they only have one video on their YT channel?

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We can't draw too many inferences from one video, nor should we expect for them to share their capabilities as such. The POGs must certainly be exceptional with video because they work with the Siggraphers and deepfakers. I'm still gathering evidence about this, but they may have the most sophisticated graphics studios in the world. And that makes sense given how much they work with Hollywood, animators, and DARPA, all.

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I get that and don’t doubt it. I’m doubting that this is an actual recruitment video from the actual military guys. It looks like something someone might do to point out that psy-ops are happening so they created this recruitment video to show the world they’re being manipulated.

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I've been discussing the video with service members and people in and out of military intelligence. It's legit.

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This lady seems to think so too:

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/what-is-psyops-army/

But I can also see a write up like that be a part of a psy op too.

So breaking down the options:

1.) elaborate hoax made by some artsy editor using storyblock b-roll, a hired performer in a studio, and a copyright license to Eric Kinny’s Last Goodbye

2.) some private militia funded by private interests (although, it could be said that the actual military is a private interest) designed to have both a clandestine and an open face entity

3.) the actual government openly public arm of recruitment that makes commercials the way the army, navy, airforce,... etc does. They run a mediocre FB and IG accounts and engage in tween like social media behaviour.

Are there other options?

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Oct 19, 2022Liked by Mathew Crawford

This is one of the best RTE articles I have read. I feel like many of us know or at least suspect this is going on, but laying it all out is tough to do. It’s a hard pill to swallow, but why wouldn’t this be happening? Well done.

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Who can take any of this on? Just another (excellently executed) reminder that all of this is too big and historically grounded to fight. I like hope as much as the next person, but I won’t be delusional.

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They will defeat themselves.

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I hope you are right! Amongst those that I know and consider intelligent, most know exceedingly little or nothing about these concepts. They will defeat themselves because they will eventually step on each other? I don't see this coming from a purposely divided people.

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We already lost the chance to stave off nearly all the damage. The people brainwashing the message that Big Government isn't a screaming billboard for runaway mafia won the hearts and minds of people educated in government schools.

The fight now is to wake up as many people as possible about how to survive the war and collapse, then how to rebuild networks without Big Gov and Big Brother.

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Speaking of cartoons...I'm still waiting for someone with a large(ish) platform to point out that Brandon is a fake.

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Wow. You keep peeling layers. Is reality always elusive? Can we, at least, still trust our gut?

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Intuition is helpful, but the psyops have advanced to control that. It now takes both the intact Intuition and also the technical abilities involved in carefully sorting out investigations.

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