“from a paternalistic right point of view”
Almost like a burden of some kind, if you will
Socialist imperialism in a vaccum: Idk guys seems mean
Socialist imperialism in an age of fascism and eco-collapse: Urgent tank noises
Writing a list of demands that are completely incompatible with capitalism and starting it with “Reform not revolution” is like writing a to-do list where the first item is “immolate self”. Nothing else on that list is getting done, idiot.
Lindsay Ellis really going for liberal bingo here.
I regained sanity points reading this
A series of experiments for the purpose of learning how to change people’s minds for them using a variety of means, most famously (but not only) chemicals. Since we don’t know what other directions the research may have gone in or even if they ever stopped (why would they), whether you think it succeeded depends on what they looked into and how ambitious their goals were. Personally, I doubt they have mind control chemicals or anything like that, but I bet they learned a lot about mass media.