It looks like the CIA is doing more to fight the information war than banning subreddits and commanding bot farms.

    • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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      Even people destroyed by the USA parrot USA propaganda due to it sheer amount and pervasiveness, not unusual.

      • @Shrike502
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        I guess, because some of the stuff here is somewhat head scratching

        • @redtea
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          Along with what @simply_surprise@lemmygrad.ml said, these details makes me think the story itself is an op.

          Then again, individuals could be targeted.

          Stay safe, everyone.

          • @mauveOkra
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            Or it could just be someone struggling with mental health, what makes you think it’s an “op”?

            • @redtea
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              You’re probably right. And actually, I think you’re more likely right then I am. But, I am going to do something terribly academic:

              (Tbh I don’t know the writer in the screenshots.)

              I was using ‘op’ in a figurative sense, I think. Not to say this story was drafted by a secret service agent. I was more pointing out that we should be hesitant to accept the truth of the story because it’s effect will be to cause paranoia and may stop people from writing anti imperialist texts on the internet. Others have since made the point more clearly than I did.

              At the same time, while it would be strange for a secret service agent to target a single writer on Quora, there are others online who would make threats that could push someone to this level of paranoia, fleeing their country.

              Events like this could be seen through a wider lens that includes the hostile environment in which even the mildest leftism is subject to the harshest ridicule. That environment is curated and has the backing of the state, the media, and almost every other capitalist not already implicated in the state and the media.

              So if random right wing trolls are encouraged by the general atmosphere to victimise a single writer on Quora, it is partly because a wider, officially sanctioned system facilitates it. A few publicised cases of left wing people fleeing for their lives are a successful element of a capitalist defense mechanism. In this sense, stories like the one in the OP are the outcome of an ‘op’.

              I’m not suggesting that I spotted the problem at first. I’m fact, I was as sleepless as @CannotSleep420. I didn’t even want to comment until others had highlighted some of the issues. My instinct was to regret ever having written anything online about Marxism and to leave the internet immediately, forever. If this was not an op, it should have been.

              Having had and read through this discussion, though, I will be more suspicious of what I may now recognise as state-backed ‘gangstalking’.

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          They actually do have directed microwave weapons that cause severe pain as your skin heats up. Idk about what else they can do but these things do exist. They have actually been a thing the military has been testing for many years now.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed-energy_weapon

          Now as far as causing this Havana Syndrome idk. It could be likely this person is taking things we know are real and making up some crazy shit.

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            Those weapons do exist, and there is a non-zero chance of Alexander being right. But I’m worried for his mental health, given that he might be showing symptoms of delusion. I’m not outright saying that, I’m just skeptical and need proof.

            Edit: I’m still skeptical, but after reading his post, I’m fucking terrified.

          • @Shrike502
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            I know about those and about some other things militaries have. I do find it hard to believe that this type of gear would be used against what is essentially a single vocal activist, when similar results could be achieved with cheaper shit. You know, paying some junkie a hundred bucks to smash his head with a brick. And the usage of Havana syndrome specifically?

            Basically, this could be a piece aimed to scare other potential vocal activists. You read this and you think “I should be more careful with my words”.