MK-ULTRA was an illegal mind-control research program that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operated between 1953 and 1964.
I feel like most of the internet is being used as a psy-op on the populace.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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Yep, I thoroughly agree.
Case in point: I have a throwaway Fb and apparently my clicks have beckoned the algo to push AI-written ragebait stories and intentionally dirty looking pics of what I'm sure are fake trans people.
Thing is, they're intermixed with seemingly genuine trans person posts (over time). But the tells are there.
Almost every fake one is a "digital creator" with links off site. No doubt they're fueled by foreign or domestic bot farms of some kind.
As to audience effectiveness, these posts simultaneously breed gentle support from our more accepting brethren but are just "icky and insane" enough to further piss off maga. It's super effective in promoting engagement and creating the illusion of "trans are everywhere" with over-saturation.
I know I fed the algo in this case, but manufactured bullshit is everywhere. Just wish there were effective strategies to combat it.
Do you want an actual answer?
MKUltra was shutdown long ago, but several fragmented research continued and still lives on. MKNAOMI, MKDELTA, MKSEARCH were immediate successors. Later, ruwre was StarGate. And many many more undisclosed human experimentation.
Intelligence community behavioural science seems to be one such project, where they teach interrogating resistance, psychological profiling of adversaries, influence and propaganda analysis (not direct brain control).
While modern variants don't have any official names or are even disclosed, its safe to assume they still are conducting human experimentation. Just much better and much less fan fare.
Yes
The US was doing horrific shit 20 years ago, 20 years from now it will still have been doing horrific shit 20 years ago.
Well, yeah, it's not that much of a mystery. I think it was even admitted that it existed.
But what we don't have, is all of the documentation related to the project. The CIA kinda did the Nazi thing, where, they don't want specific shit to be known about what they've done to people, so they destroy what they can.
It's important to understand exactly what MK Ultra actually was, because the goals of the program shifted more than once.
MK Ultra at its heart, was an attempt by men who were more monstrous than competent to control reality. They acted as if consequences didn't exist, and for decades, they didn't.
By those standards, this shit keeps happening.
I think an important corollary of this is that contemporary programs stand on the shoulders of MKULTRA, which did them the favor of testing a lot of hypotheses that didn't pan out.
There's a reason why low-quality high-bias infotainment, social media echo chambers, and controlled opposition platforming are so prevalent, and the only satisfactorily complete answer in my mind is that it's something a quorum of the population will stomach that also gives them the degree of control they think they need.
Black budget hits 100 billion. I'm certain there are people high up in the government who get warm fuzzy feelings from that type of stuff.
Of course.
We have Facebook ...
Also true, but not me, deactivated and deleted, lol! Just video slop all on there.
TikTok for sure! I hate it!
It gets harder to hide things like secret large scale government operations every day.
True, we now can record everything on phones. That helps.
And Journalists have access to cameras and microphones that fit seamlessly inside shirt buttons and eyewear.
And on the scary side, cameras are now so small that they can be used to spy anywhere. A camera probably the size of a normal mosquito.
So you don't know about the UFO's and aliens?
Yes, absolutely. Gabbard literally just revealed the existence of over 100 bio labs in foreign countries, including Ukraine. There's literally nothing the US government isn't doing to try to advance every aspect of their fucked up agenda. Epstein himself was convinced he was breeding better humans and he was literally protected by US intelligence
Fun fact, everyone already knew about those labs. They were built by the Soviets, and the US was invited in to help convert them to civilian use.
This has all been public for decades.
The release from Gabbard covers 30 countries. Some of the Ukrainian sites were former Soviet labs. Some were not. All of them, it turns out, were housing deadly and dangerous agents, the extent of which was classified, and some were engaged in gain-of-function research on highly dangerous pathogens with no oversight. That's what we call a bioweapon skunksworks.
Tulsi Gabbard is repeating Russian lies. All of these biolabs were openly listed on various government websites, and most of them were working on civilian stuff, like tracking the yearly flu virus and crime scene DNA sequencing.
They all had oversight from the US and their host country, along with the occasional UN team.
Again, Tulsi Gabbard is not a trustworthy source for anything.
What are your thoughts on COVID-19?
Pass
Well then... not you, lol.
Yikes, what's your take?