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The weirdest thing about American culture (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 13 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

someone post all the major things the cia has done in the last 70 years by bullet point, much has been declassified and the fact none of the public is freaking out over the things they have done is maddening

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Well yeah, the CIA has done horrible stuff in the 40s, and the 50s, and the 60s... And the 70s and 80s and 90s... And some stuff in the 00s.

    But now? They probably learned their lesson.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I fruck out about it the first 10 or so times I found out about these things, but it doesn't hit the same after a while. This is just what the US is. I vote, I speak my mind, I engage in a little domestic terrorism, but ultimately I don't have enough power to change things in my lifetime. I'm crossing my fingers for an organized network of assassins with a conscience to materialize.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    people who are usually morally right, usually don't kill other people

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I tend to agree. I would just like if a certain type of person didn't have the kind of power that destroys the environment and worsens lives for ends that only serve to benefit that same type of person. How that happens doesn't matter to me, but assassins would be quick and final. Collective action from the people would make me feel better for the future though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The most recent thing that I learned about was that the CIA secretly worked with Boris Hagelin when he formed Crypto AG in the 1950s to ensure that encryption devices sold to foreign countries were easy to break by American intelligence agencies. Then in the 1970s, the CIA secretly purchased Crypto AG and owned it until 2018.

    Crypto AG sold devices to countries across South America, Africa, the Middle East, and South East Asia. Basically, all of tge US's adversaries aside from the USSR and China.

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