• hector@lemmy.today
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      22 hours ago

      I am sure that’s true the account you replied to is in bad faith here, but the CIA has used all sorts of do gooder organizations however. We notably impersonated vaccination workers to find Osama, and made those already put upon humanitarian missions more at risk and saw increases in their killings and attacks, especially in places like pakistan that still see polio and other vaccinateable disease.

      Then there was an international student democracy group back in the 80s, they recruited all of these idealists, including in Iraq, after the Islamic revolution in Iran, and the whole thing was a cia front, and they used that group to garner tens of thousands of names they gave to the baath party when they were seizing and consolidating power, in two tranches, and those people were grabbed, disappeared, tortured, murdered. I can give you a link on that if you want, harper’s magazine.

      Those are just to name a couple, just to make the point that there very well could, almost certainly is, some cia fuckery with this usaid organization. Using their own pervertion of the agencies and organizations to shut down chartiy work however is just more rw degeneration of society obviously I am not in disagreement rather pointing out there almost certainly has been cia skullduggery at that organization.

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      2 days ago

      It’s very curious how all extremists end up with the same talking points and views. The antisemitism from tankies is almost identical to neo-nazis, even posting and sharing the same conspiracy theories.

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        2 days ago

        If I were a bot farm operator, that’s exactly what I would do. Right-wing authoritarian talking points branded with “Leftist” packaging.

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          Yeah, most likely it’s Russian disinformation at some level in the pipeline of extremism