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A number of the people Well-Respected Psionic Weaponry Corporation used in their experiments were people who were exposed to their mistakes. The presidents who turned inside out rather than rising to power. The customers who became so addicted to products they stopped their basic bodily functions. The workers and researchers who didn't believe some deepfakes.

WRPWC's most profitable work was in influence. Cultural, political, commercial. They could make people do things, subtly or harshly, you name it. Part of the plan was to guide these behaviors so as to strengthen their own businesses ....