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Pentagon funding research to model & determine the "tipping point" for mass civil unrest

 
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Pentagon funding research to model & determine the "tipping point" for mass civil unrest
Social science is being militarised to develop 'operational tools' to target peaceful activists and protest movements A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme is funding universities to model the dynamics, risks and tipping points for large-scale civil unrest across the world, under the supervision of various US military agencies

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Re: Pentagon funding research to model & determine the "tipping point" for mass civil unrest
Thanks for da pin!
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Re: Pentagon funding research to model & determine the "tipping point" for mass civil unrest
funny how the article doesnt mention any studies about the effects of youtube videos on potential civil unrest

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Re: Pentagon funding research to model & determine the "tipping point" for mass civil unrest
Hillary getting elected should do it
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Re: Pentagon funding research to model & determine the "tipping point" for mass civil unrest
the critical mass of social contagians...their words.

WTF is a social contagen? an engram? are we doing scientology studies, again, like from the 1970s style of psycho-social politics. is it a meme? is it something called a dataset? is it a bunch of metrics?

I have a bizarre theory. If a government group is not eyeballing a group, is the group led to critical mass? the watching group is sometimes the social contagion.

What is the cause of corn popping? Temperature. Weather makes change. Solar proton emissions. Gamma ray bursts from outer space. Agitating elements like the clothing that people wear. When people are itchy they tend to gripe more. It's usually the style of person speaking too.

The tipping point is the same it's always been with the numbers games of people. If you understand regular voting politics the studies already exist in what tips people. Sometimes, it's a whole-world problem.

targeting peaceful activists to find their tipping point? In other words, provoking nice people into being mean. So it's a bunch of dipshit soldiers bullying a nice guy into flipping out. Hehehe, lets see if this one reacts when we throw shit at it, that sort of understanding. And they get paid to call that a study? Waste of money on useless eater soldiers.





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