[mlN90]

His dad works for Nintendo, if you question him, he'll make your playstation 3 catch fire.

Jokes aside, I would be interested to see if there is any "sources" to his claim, but in all likelihood there isn't and there never will be.

there is no evidence that the alphabet-boys hijacked the term "Conspiracy theorist" and used the media to change people's perception that conspiracy theorists is batshit crazy people with tinfoil hats.

How many years were you not labelled a tinfoil-hatter if you tried to describe the echelon program pre-snowden, even though he wasn't the first to leak about FIVE EYES, especially the part how the western SIGINT community circumvented the laws prohibiting domestic dragnet spying in their own respective countries?

[ttt0]

> there is no evidence that the alphabet-boys hijacked the term "Conspiracy theorist" and used the media to change people's perception that conspiracy theorists is batshit crazy people with tinfoil hats.

I don't know where do you got this particular claim from, seems like a straw man honestly, but here is the CIA's 1967 "Countering Conspiracy Theories" memo:

https://archive.org/details/img_53510_3_300

Memos like that (what the narrative and the talking points are) are leaking all the time.

[ncmncm]

Propaganda operatives, whether commercial or military, seek what are called "placements". These are packaged kernels of message content to be repeated by media gatekeepers, who may be reporters, editorialists, authors, movie directors, computer game studios, or social-media "influencers".

Zero Dark Thirty and Argo were important movie placements by the spooks. Diamond, cigarette, car, beverage, and now phone product placements are a familiar movie phenomenon. It appears that there is significant budget available for funding movies and games that present CIA programs in a positive light, which also generate direct revenue.

[pluto9]

Good thing all my games are on PC ;)

I think people give too much credit to the government for being a rational and calculating actor. I don't find it difficult to believe that they attempted a "men who stare at goats"-style program. They are absolutely not above throwing a billion dollars worth of shit at the wall just to see what sticks. These are the same people who thought they could implant cats with listening equipment and train them to eavesdrop on Soviet officials, which went about as well as you'd expect.