• PugJesus
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    429 months ago

    Dictators would be extinct. Cartels wouldn’t exist.

    Have you forgotten what the Funny Alphabet Agency does?

    • @[email protected]
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      -39 months ago

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

      • PugJesus
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        339 months ago

        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.

        • @Mirshe
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          179 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.

          • PugJesus
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            129 months ago

            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.

        • Ignotum
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          79 months ago

          Some things you do because you have to,
          other things you do because you enjoy it