• aew360@lemm.ee
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    9 months 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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      9 months ago

      Dictators would be extinct. Cartels wouldn’t exist.

      Have you forgotten what the Funny Alphabet Agency does?

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        9 months 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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            9 months ago

            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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      9 months ago

      Bro I’m very much a pro America guy, but what? We built half those dictators, seemingly as a joke. We literally trolled in a decades long, international level.

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      9 months ago

      I must upvote this because to believe that someone on this site unironically thinks the CIA doesn’t support dictators and cartels would probably give me an aneurysm