• MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    I saw an ad on linked in for Special Agent hirings because it matched my skills or qualifications.

    But then I thought to myself, if I joined and I didnt fall in line Id probably be killed. So nah, no thanks.

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      4 hours ago

      If all people who share your opinions think like you then that institution will be left to your opponents.

      Joining would be praxis. You don’t have to be a double agent or anything, just be a sympathetic voice in meetings and such. Simply making the institution politically diverse and preventing it from being an echo chamber of like-minded people is already making a change in the world.

      As an example, in 1923 Hitler attempted a coup, but got off with an amazingly light eight months of prison. The reason is the judiciary at the time were quite sympathetic to him; they didn’t do anything illegal, yet had they been SPD supporters instead Hitler might have gotten a life sentence for his high treason.

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        3 hours ago

        Im curious, are you American? Because as an American I know that oligarchs control the media and often times people who leak are never painted as heroes. And then they disappear.

        CPD is like an example on a city scale where every inner city kid knows they function like a gang.

        I will not waste my time trying to infiltrate and put my life on the line when others before me have like Edward Snowden and then be condemned from reentering my country.

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          I’m not American, it just happens that where I live everyone is quoting from Gramsci’s cultural hegemony at the moment. ^^

          My point is you don’t need to leak to matter, or do anything illegal. The simple fact that powerful institutions are staffed with people who share your ideology is helpful to you. (I do have a lot of respect for leakers though)