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this should turn into a general thread.

topics/individuals/groups to research for people who are new to the topic of how individual and/or group behavior is scientifically manipulated; let's add to this list:

-edward bernays, whose first claim to fame was breaking the taboo of women smoking cigarettes by rebranding them as "torches of liberty"; he created modern emotionally-based marketing

-MK ultra program itself, obviously, and ongoing discussion from the previous thread. Ewen Cameron is a central, pioneering figure in this field of exploiting or even inflicting trauma so as to influence or control.

I'm strapped for time right now but feel free to add to the above, and also solutions:

-becoming familiar once again with logical fallacies, especially as they're weaponized for ragebait content on /pol/. this is why the fallacy post is pinned, so study it. so much energy is consumed responding to threads whose premises are purposefully designed to be stupid annoying diversions which are posted again and again.