• aew360@lemm.ee
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      2 years ago

      Imagine who much further along the world would be if we stooped to their levels. Dictators would be extinct. Cartels wouldn’t exist. I would be erect 24/7.

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        Dictators would be extinct. Cartels wouldn’t exist.

        Have you forgotten what the Funny Alphabet Agency does?

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          2 years ago

          Why would we need to build cartels and install dictators if we could just simply drone strike the opposition?

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            If the CIA operated like the KGB, we’d have an autocrat in the White House, and the CIA would still be selling drugs on US streets to destabilize internal demographics.

            This is the organization that had data that torture wasn’t effective, and then was told by the fucking president to stop torturing people, and it came out several years later in front of Congress that they just kept on torturing people regardless.

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              And they still do, don’t worry. We just can’t call it torture now, or do it within the US. There’s a long institutional memory that remembers when the CIA could literally launch an invasion of a foreign country and drag the executive branch into the conflict with it.

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                We just can’t call it torture now, or do it within the US.

                The “Enhanced interrogation” was what they were told to stop. They kept “enhanced interrogating” people.

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          2 years ago

          I unironically believe this too. In 2016 I was like “yeah! The deep state is bad! Fuck em! Washington doesn’t represent me!” and then, well, the last 8 years happened