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      Psychological operations (PSYOPs) are military operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their motives and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and large foreign powers. (From Wikipedia)

      So basically propaganda I guess. Gotta be one of the most Murican things I’ve read in a long time…

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        You would do well for yourself and your loved ones to recognize how prevalent this sort of thing is in the world. It’s not just an American thing. Not by a long shot.

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          Yeah, like we had RCMP Miku here in Canada which I both adore and hate. Miku would never

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          Yeah, I know, I’m talking about the way it’s written. This name and its description really give off US-military/CIA operation vibes to me.

          It obviously exists elsewhere as well, but the name psyop can only come from the USA.

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        Propaganda tends to refer to either the material itself or systematic distribution of it. Psyops refers to the overarching military operations that employ propaganda, and also refers to the way that the material is disseminated (e.g. planting people in organizations to stir trouble, leaflet-ing, social media bot campaigns, false flag campaigns like bombing something and blaming it on someone else, etc).