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>> they are not political at all They are just following orders. Nothing wrong with that. Since 1939...

• strictnein 11y ago
  Yeah, it's just like working for the Nazis.
  • forgetsusername 11y ago
    >Yeah, it's just like working for the Nazis. You do realize that at one point "working for the Nazis" wasn't really a bad thing. Over time, it became one. You can draw other comparisons, besides body count. If you don't see parallels regarding people saying, "I don't care about the affect my work has on people around the globe, as long as I get paid" I don't know what to say.
    • strictnein 11y ago
      It was definitely a "bad thing" in 1939. You do realize that concentration camps had been up and running since 1933, right? So yeah, working for the CIA is just like working for a party that was exterminating millions in camps. If you don't understand how that type of hyperbole poisons discussions, I don't know what to say.
      • vonmoltke 11y ago
        > You do realize that concentration camps had been up and running since 1933, right? You realize the camps were not exterminating people until after the Wannsee Conference in January of 1942, right? That isn't to say the Nazis weren't murdering people before then, but mass murders didn't start until the war started and were generally committed by the Einsatzkommando units in the field. As for the racial policies of the Nazi Party, there was a disturbing amount of support for them outside of Germany prior to the war. Still, Nazi metaphors are almost always an unnecessary hyperbole.