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I agree with the prescription to stay off weaponized social propaganda platforms and focus on your local community, but I don't see how you can ask people to blindly trust the CIA. Too many misdeeds to count.

- Fabricating justification for war (Vietnam, Iraq) - Fabricating evidence of treason by a sitting President (Trump-Russia) - Overthrowing democratically elected governments (e.g. Iran) - Starting civil wars (e.g. Nicaragua) - Assassinating thousands of people, often with collateral killing of innocents - And drugs drugs drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

Ultimately, do we live in a better world thanks to the CIA? From where I sit, I'd need a lot of convincing to believe that.



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