Call me crazy.
106 2015-02-28 by ScarredCock
So the guardian came out with this article on the 24 Feb 2015.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site
It made the front page of /r/news.
Shortly after the news came out, social media explodes with pictures of some dress. News agencies like Fox and CNN report about the dress as if it's major news. Maybe I missed it, but has any large American news network even touched the Chicago story?
Thoughts?
82 comments
76 FutzBucket 2015-02-28
My thought is you're starting to see through their bullshit. Welcome to the rabbit hole. I must warn you, it's pretty deep.
24 ScarredCock 2015-02-28
I've been walking around the hole for awhile, this just seemed so perfect that I had to jump in.
14 tejmin 2015-02-28
Wait until you start noticing that the huge releases happen like, Friday, Saturday, when no one is watching out on their weekend.
6 linkreincarnate 2015-02-28
ooh Like that shit the CIA pulled on christmas? Releasing a crappy incomplete list of all the times people broke protocol on national surveillance databases.
10 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
One of us one of us one of us
2 George_Tenet 2015-02-28
why do you get flair?
6 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
Oh, do you mean Gregory? I named him after /u/Greg_Roberts_0985
He is a magnificent bastard, and accompanies me on my travels.
2 FormalPants 2015-02-28
I'd still appreciate an answer to his question (why/how you get flair), even if George has forgotten
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
I wish I could give ya a real one. Woke up one morning with it. One of the mods hooked me up.
There's a few of us with the flair, but I doubt it has any significance. I dig it though - I love birds anyway.
2 FormalPants 2015-02-28
Oh. You never asked the mods either?
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
Nopes.
2 ImASharkImAShark 2015-02-28
What does the "B C" stand for? Bohemian Club?
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
That is a fantastic guess. My thought too.
2 ImASharkImAShark 2015-02-28
And the owl is the Moloch owl god?
Edit: A word that was auto corrected.
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
Most likely. You'd have to ask Gregory.
-4 George_Tenet 2015-02-28
Sure you participate here alot,but you should joke less. -gt
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
Sometimes we all need a chuckle. I will try and be more serious. My bad.
Was trying something different.
2 George_Tenet 2015-02-28
Jk. U respect gt?
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
Sometimes.
2 Deadautomation 2015-02-28
Don't stop. It helps other know that you are human and not a paid shill. If you were a shill, you'd be a really really really good one.
2 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
No shilly. Just a dude who can't sleep and likes reading and debating.
2 Deadautomation 2015-02-28
You don't have to convince me Jim.
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
I know, but I felt I had to respond. I'll keep doing what I'm doing - as long as you're learning, questioning, and being respectful.
Long days and pleasant nights.
2 whipnil 2015-02-28
Humour is the essence of life, bro.
4 digiorno 2015-02-28
Now start looking into all of terrorist plots that the FBI has "foiled" over the past few years. Real, top notch work, you'll be amazed.
1 benzeboy 2015-02-28
just walking around the rim of the hole, going about your job, a rim job almost
5 George_Tenet 2015-02-28
imagine the psy op capabilities they have
it can go from literal torture to a dress
its amazing
2 FutzBucket 2015-02-28
Such power the media has.
Or is it a a show of how much we're controlled?
0 George_Tenet 2015-02-28
Both. I mean a dress? I see right thru it as many others do
22 User_Defined 2015-02-28
If you want me to call you crazy I will, however, I am of the opinion that whole dress nonsense was definitely a distraction. I'm starting to think it was a trigger of some sort, cuz the whole thing is just so bizarre.
12 ScarredCock 2015-02-28
A trigger?
14 User_Defined 2015-02-28
You're not allowed to call me crazy! lol! Yeah, a trigger associated with some sort of mind control technology. To do what? I don't know. What kind of tech? I don't know. However, what I do know, is the news casts (any network) are FULL of hypnotic circles rotating within half circles inside of rotating circles, and countdowns, that's all hypnotic mind control tech. And please remember, that's just a passing thought, I have only dedicated as much time to it as it took to type this message.
11 hummusdingus 2015-02-28
It was multiple things: an advertisement for a dress, a distraction from real stories (Chicago police, net neutrality), a coverup (by flooding social media), and a divide-and-conquer event. All you saw on social media was white/gold vs black/blue.
2 urban__sombrero 2015-02-28
It's almost a known truth at this point.
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
You cray ;)
3 User_Defined 2015-02-28
HEY! maybe it looks like that now... just wait till everyone who saw a black dress will only communicate in katy perry lyrics, won't be so crazy then.... WILL I???
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
I've seen both the Black/Blue and White/Gold dress.
My mother was right - I am special.
5 Literatewolf 2015-02-28
Behold! the Chosen One!
3 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
I shall save youuu
4 User_Defined 2015-02-28
'Cause, baby, you're a firework Come on, show 'em what you're worth Make 'em go, "Aah, aah, aah" As you shoot across the sky-y-y
20 DiarrheaMonkey- 2015-02-28
Social media explodes with random irrelevant crap on an almost clockwork basis. It is usually as organic as fashion trends or shitty "musicians" getting popular.
The government does so much fucked up shit that one thing or another is constantly being revealed. It only makes sense that the two regularly overlap.
Do you really think that people would be significantly distracted from real news by a stupid gimmicky meme? Do you really think that the few people that were measurably distracted by it are the people who would pay any attention to the Chicago news anyway? No and no.
But downvote away, because for two years or more, most people in this sub have been sure that anything that becomes popular must be a manufactured distraction from [insert government malfeasance here].
1 holocauster-ride 2015-02-28
So why did no US media cover it?
2 DiarrheaMonkey- 2015-02-28
Because they rarely cover heinous violations of the constitution unless it serves their ends? Remind me how many FOX/CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS etc. stories you saw about the stupid dress shit and swallowing up time that still wouldn't have been used to cover the Chicago thing. None? Was it none?
7 hbonfatti 2015-02-28
So let's assume it was some kind of experiment. What was the visible results?
Division. Accordingly to the Media, the people were violently arguing about the dress color. Couples broke up, etc.
Doubt. You can't trust your eyes no more. Everything is a mind trick. After the event the same media that spread the dress meme, started to post optic illusions.
Control of the talk over the internet. Suddenly EVERYONE was talking about it. It could be a way of silence other subject (the Chicago black site?) or a study on how effective the intelligence could be in infiltrate any subject into people conversation.
Any other?
Call me crazy (too), but I still think the dress was white and gold, even after the "debunk".
3 hummusdingus 2015-02-28
Advertising for expensive clothing.
I also thought it was truly white/gold too, but whatever.
6 Bacore 2015-02-28
The dress IS major news, did you not see it? It was like it almost changed colors or whatever. Besides that Chicagho thing was... hey, Honey Boo Boo is on... gotta go.
5 make_mind_free2go 2015-02-28
i wonder: is this some kind of experiment like what FB did? what's really going on here? seems like a whole lot of bs to me,
we have to ask ourselves, why are silly distractions deliberately 'headlined' in the "news", especially right after the debate about online security, the black site in Chicago, the measles etc.,
it sure doesn't take much to divert attention.
edit: punctuation
13 ScarredCock 2015-02-28
Sounds like we as a whole are fucked.
The more I pay attention and see the writing on the wall, when I stop to look around at my peers and notice that they are completely unaware of it. It's depressing.
3 make_mind_free2go 2015-02-28
i feel the same way at times; then i remember what my Grandfather used to say: some people have to be smacked with a 2 by 4 to realize the truth,
when those that don't see or refuse to see are confronted with what's real, they will either breakdown or accept it, should it come to that, it's important that people be aware, it's happening now, some people display inappropriate anger/violence, like road rage, (seems to come out of nowhere),
i don't know if it's because they've always had a mental issue or not, best to be safe than sorry, if shtf, just be careful.
edit: protect your health, mind & body, stay positive, expect the good
7 ShillinInTheNameOf 2015-02-28
I think you are probably correct. They are experimenting on how easy it is to distract the population. People arguing with each other, people saying "I can't trust my eyes", etc etc. Seems like the perfect psy-ops.
2 make_mind_free2go 2015-02-28
exactly: can't trust what their eyes see - that is so much bs
2 dohraymeefarsolar 2015-02-28
what if there really is 3 versions of the dress photo?!?
2 make_mind_free2go 2015-02-28
this dress comes in more than one color, i've seen: white & gold, black & blue, black & red
"Roman Originals began selling the dress in November 2014. It currently comes in four different colors, pink/black, red/black, white/black, black/blue, although the company is now considering selling the dress in white and gold. "
http://www.eonline.com/news/630502/this-dress-debate-is-publicity-gold-viral-look-sold-out-company-receiving-150-calls-every-30-minutes
from romans orginals, the gold & white is not available at this time
http://www.romanoriginals.co.uk/invt/70931?colour=Ivory
1 CloudyMN1979 2015-02-28
...Really?
3 OakTable 2015-02-28
I found the dress to be mildly amusing. Just like tons of other content I look at every day. But it became a "thing", and I noticed that, so I decided to share it so that other people I knew could be in on "the thing". People like feeling included.
It's inoffensive content. It's something you can share with anyone. It doesn't require the person you're sending it to to have any background knowledge for it to be relevant to them. The "trick" with the dress is something people can verify first hand. If I told you, "There's a picture of a dress, and sometimes people see it as black and blue, and sometimes people see it as gold and white," would you believe me? Would we have to go into deep discussions about color theory and the like, as you'd need evidence that this might be true? Why should you have to believe me or why should I have to argue with you, I can just show you the picture. Without the picture, it's just like any other story where you're relying on someone else to both know what they're talking about and be honest with you. But what color the picture of the dress is is something you can verify with a simple imaging program.
Blacksite torture? Well, I assume it's true, I'm pretty cynical about the government and what it's capable of.
So, yeah, the dress went everywhere. Some things just happen to strike a chord in people. It's nice to know that people's attention can all unite around something, even if it's not something important.
It works for important things, too. Like Ebola-Chan.
4 Orangutan 2015-02-28
The Dress, an Illusion in Lesser Magic. [IMAGE]
2 TheRightToBearArms 2015-02-28
"A wolf in sheeps clothing?" ohhhh, I had too.
0 CloudyMN1979 2015-02-28
That wolf needs a tinfoil hat.
4 _Billups_ 2015-02-28
It came out a couple days before the dress story.
It was never covered by the news in the U.S. media.
It was willful compliance to not mention it at all.
In the worldnews subreddit the anti Russia/Putin narrative continues. People say the Russian media is state run and that America is way different and is completely reputable. LOL.
Meanwhile the mainstream U.S. news is talking about cold weather in winter and dress colors.. It amazes me people can't see through this shit and demand more from the media. Ridiculous!!
Edit: Who could forget the llama story that got mainstream media, prime time news coverage, over the Chicago black site story... this is why people call people sheep
1 Harbltron 2015-02-28
It's always amused me that people will see a story posted from RT and immediately start shouting "IT CAN'T BE TRUSTED! IT'S A PROPAGANDA OUTLET FOR THE REDS!".
1 _Billups_ 2015-02-28
Yeah I see that on the RT Youtube channel all the time
1 trinsic-paridiom 2015-02-28
Yeah still I trust RT as much as I trust fox news or any other media outlet. I question their motives even though they speak what appears to be more truth then other news stations.
0 DeviMon1 2015-02-28
The blacksite story was up on worldnews quite high, more than 5000 points up, maybe you just didn't catch it.
0 _Billups_ 2015-02-28
MAINSTREAM NEWS you jackass.
Reddit is not mainstream news, fuck
1 DeviMon1 2015-02-28
I know it's not, I never said it was. I only pointed it out because you said:
While at the same time, the blacksite story was quite popular aswell.
1 _Billups_ 2015-02-28
It was popular on reddit...
Hundreds of millions of Americans have no idea about the Chicago Black Sites. NBC/CBS/CNN/FOX news channels will not talk about it.
The internet is the only source people could potentially see the story
3 NAM007 2015-02-28
Anyone got a link for the dress shit? thanks.
Edit: never mind, googled it. Sure went viral for no reason.
2 Kuleaid 2015-02-28
Had to google it myself. I didn't get it either.
0 NAM007 2015-02-28
Oh i still don't get it. Asburd. Why did everyone fall for it. Was it a test?
2 Kuleaid 2015-02-28
Sometimes people run out sandy places to stick their heads. Every now and then you have to build a new sandbox, I guess.
1 FormalPants 2015-02-28
I don't think there's any "falling for it", I legitimately thought it was white and gold at first, then saw it edited next to a couple other pictures and it switched to black and blue permanently in my brain.
It's just an optical illusion.
2 hawksaber 2015-02-28
I really hated the whole "OMG! Is it White/Gold, or Blue/Black!?" social internet bunk.
1 madmaxsin 2015-02-28
You're crazy, crazy like a fox. Interesting to say the least.
1 NightmareOfTheHive 2015-02-28
Meh.
It's Chicago so I'm not surprised. New York, LA, Dallas-Fort Worth, and a few more cities have them as well.
What I'm curious to know, is what type of people go there. The article mentions that a protester, part of the "Nato Three", was kep there, but other than that, it only mentions that they're usually poor and black. It's being suggested that political reasons are behind it, but I could see people like child killers and molesters, other murderers, and rapists being held there. I just find it interesting that there's no mention of what type of crimes resulted in staying at Homan Square. Is it intentional? Or do they just not know?
-1 earthfister 2015-02-28
Rahm Emmanuel is a Jew, do the math.
-5 Sharkenopolis 2015-02-28
I'm gonna play devil's advocate here. The story about the black site in Chicago doesn't have any solid proof. At this point, it's just people saying it's there. I don't doubt that it's there, but there needs to be evidence that it's there for news agencies to start covering it.
6 dolaction 2015-02-28
Journalists tried to get in and Chicago police in masks tailed their car and intimidated them.
2 Sharkenopolis 2015-02-28
That's something i didn't know, but it seems reasonable to think that's why it hasn't been seen in the news.
2 Harbltron 2015-02-28
If they're outed they should face outright termination for that alone. People have compared the cops to gangs for years, and now they're hiding their faces and running pure intimidation tactics on journalists?
Looks like it's not a comparison anymore, it's a fact.
0 DukeLeto2 2015-02-28
Also several people have come forth saying they were 'guests' there including torture.
-5 thefrontpageofreddit 2015-02-28
It's a coincidence. Not everything in the world is a conspiracy. Is it a crime to have fun on the news every once in a while?
0 NAM007 2015-02-28
Oh i still don't get it. Asburd. Why did everyone fall for it. Was it a test?
1 JamesColesPardon 2015-02-28
Nopes.