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The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.

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will seek cognitive manipulation and control of enemies.

Other weapons it is working on include “genetic drugs” — pharmaceuticals designed to modify the genetic and physiological makeup of people and seek to impact cognitive, emotional, and behavioral traits.

Source? A think tank said so.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago

Oh no china hit me with the lullaby ray blob-sleep

[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I saw China’s military in the closet making brain weapons and I saw one of the brain weapons and the brain weapon looked at me

[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The concept of brainwashing was invented— by a CIA agent posing as a journalist— precisely because Westerners needed a way to reflexively dismiss the phenomenon whereby their own troops were being persuaded of communist ideas during communist captivity:

The idea of “brain-washing” can be credited to Edward Hunter, a CIA-funded writer and editor, who in 1950 started writing articles and books on the subject. His thesis was that Red China and the Soviet Union could control the minds of their respective citizenry— which explained how susceptible Americans captured on foreign soil would be. [11]

This new category, supposedly qualitatively different from normal ideology acquisition, itself turns out to be simply an ideological distinction without a difference.


from https://redsails.org/brainwashing/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

which explained how susceptible Americans captured on foreign soil would be

"Could it be that our butchery is morally bankrupt, and that our adversary has good ideas? No, they must be mind controlling our people"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like how American propaganda is more likely to be like "the reds are evil wizards" than aknowledging that socialism is a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

"They have universal healthcare, 100% literacy, no homeless, better nutrition, and all their children are educated for free through university. They might be on to something."

"You've just been brainwashed, shut up" how-much-could-it-cost

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

His thesis was that Red China and the Soviet Union could control the minds of their respective citizenry

It's true--even at the dissolution of the USSR, a whopping 70% of its citizenry wanted it to stay together

thankfully Pizza Hut got involved and Russia's better for it now

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.

"We helped the West get a good night's sleep and they will never forgive us for it" - Xi Jinping xi-god-emperor

Looking forward to being tranquilised by the PLA and fultoned away to Dengism motherbase to be made to read The Governance of China until I defect or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Me getting dropped off at the Dengist Motherbase, "Oh, no no I'm already with you on all of this. Do you guys have like an advanced course for people who are already communists but haven't finished reading Capital yet? Maybe some audiobooks for in the field?"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This think tank is literally three US military ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What a grift

Wish I could get paid to make up bullshit China is doing

"Oh yeah, they're building a giant memorial to Mao that hypnotizes anyone who gazes upon it for longer than 5 seconds"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Gonna make a thinktank, as a bit.

What is a thinktank anyway? They're websites that call themselves thinktanks that "publish" papers they make the fuck up every now and then.

They're totally bullshit organisations invented for the purposes of creating deniability for the state that something came from a third party and not from themselves. Despite the fact that states are funding the thinktanks they're "independent".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

(a) Countering Chinese influence fund. —There is authorized to be appropriated $300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund to counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party globally. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization are authorized to remain available until expended and shall supplement, not supplant, amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to counter such influence.

getting that sweet sweet cash

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Yeah sorry boss, can’t come in today, the Chinese are making me sleepy

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-alerted disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.

This is actually very true. I've fallen victim to Chinese sleep and mind control weapons myself. They hide it in the form of delicious Chinese food, but really it's a trick, and then suddenly after inducing a large amount of their "food" you begin to feel very sleepy. They get me every time, the bastards!

We need to be alert because I think the Chinese are sharing this weapon within their Axis of Evil too. I've sadly also been tricked using the mind control devices of seemingly delicious food and beautiful Korean women servers (spies!) to be manipulated into purchasing and consuming large amounts of weaponized Korean BBQ, which also induced the same sleep affliction.

The enemy is very cunning. Be careful, comrades. This is a war we cannot win.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"The insidious Chinese sleep weapon works in three steps: First they serve you a hot cup of cocoa, then they play you a lullaby and then they tuck you into bed" A real quote I just made up, which makes it as real as the rest of the article

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

I volunteer to test this weapon (i have trouble sleeping)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they're making the giant Havana Syndrome gun

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Havana nice siesta sleepi

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

holy shit guys wait stop the jokes the sleep weapon is actually real wtf??

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The CIA does both of those things lmao joker-amerikkklap

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

This means the CIA attempts to do both of those things, and fails

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

xi-plz use your sci-fi weapons to induce sleep on me.

"Yes, I'm sorry, Philosoraptor can't come to work today because he was hit by the Chinese sleep ray and is looking very comfy."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

anonymous sources connected to the Pentagon claim the Chinese have possibly used the sleep weapons on Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Posting Washington Times is cheating.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Sigh. Not a single mention. Do y'all ever feel like your secret CCP VR Brainwashing Milker Project [CW:secret CCP VR Brainwashing Milker Project] isn't getting the respect it deserves?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Hit me with that sleep gun please, I have a hard time getting to bed

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

seeseepee sees eepy

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have it on good authority that "We don't need no thought control."

What are they gonna develop next? Dark sarcasm in the classroom?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

doug-point-cry the wall reference

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Chinese brain warfare includes sleep weapons, thought control

Has China become the Soviets from Red Alert 2?? lol that think tank must be a C&C fan

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

Please Xi hit me with the sleep beam, I am so fucking tired all the time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Five-Eyes operatives have risked everything to deliver this picture of the biological weapon

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I don't even doubt that China might be looking into this kind of stuff, for the same reason that the CIA has looked into a lot of ridiculous ideas that were never going to work. At some point you either spend the government grants or lose them.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fuck yeah the Chinese are centuries ahead in tech, once again news that show the supr- wait this is supposed to be bad news? This is supposed to make me dislike a nation that has somehow conquered the realm of Hypnos? Lmao ok, if the sleep ray was real, I'd want them to shoot me with it. Imagine being able to go to sleep on command.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

CCP is artificially boosting midichlorian counts in its jedi

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Sedatives and trumpets? What's next? The CCP is thinking about launching dead bodies in trebuchets and pooping upstream to do biological warfare!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Xi please target me with you sleep weapon!

xi-plz

Actually the " biological sleep weapon is the seeseepee's insidious plan to stop trying to keep everyone from getting covid, resulting in everyone getting covid and the post covid symptoms that come with it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

🐿️🚩 🐿️🚩 🐿️🚩 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Whenever the Western media says shit like this usually it's because the CIA is trying to do that shit themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Finally, a good night's sleep

-posted at 3:52 am on a work day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Are they going for a more wicked witch of the west angle or the Fredy Kruger angle?

Did they just dust off the unused antic lines from the Cold War 60s?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Oh my sweet lord they’re going to do MK ULTRA again

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Decided to go down this rabbit hole and see what their sources are.

Here's the "research" report PDF.

These are the two papers in Chinese that they cite to support their claims:

Here is a machine translation of a paragraph from the first paper. This seems to be what they're basing all of their claims on.

The production of biological weapons such as sleep weapons, brain-computer interfaces, brain-controlled weapons, and genetic drugs directly affects cognition, emotion, will, and behavior from the physiological point of view, which is more direct and lethal than traditional psychological influences. The fact that war deprives military personnel of sleep has been widely circulated, and as early as the 70s of the last century, Britain began to study sleeping weapons. From sleep glasses to keep one's own personnel awake and "nightless" drugs to soft-kill radio waves that cause drowsiness and thirst in the enemy, future research that genetically alters physiological limits is moving toward the center of the battlefield. Recently, the brain-controlled weapons developed have made the ideal of "a soldier who surrenders without a fight" a reality, and it is also one of the ultimate weapons that will change the tide of war in the future. Such an endless stream of biological weapons has impacted the physical and psychological state of combatants, causing a huge threat to the physical and psychological safety of military personnel.

And then these are the two papers they cite as evidence that China is developing mind control energy weapons:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

They're just gonna be flashing American troops with blue light.

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