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Even saying that the US is your friend isn't really true. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment and MKULTRA were only ended in the 70s, Orlando Letelier happened the
by chungus_khan 7y ago
Even saying that the US is your friend isn't really true. The Tuskegee syphilis experiment and MKULTRA were only ended in the 70s, Orlando Letelier happened the same decade, as did the discovery of Operation Mockingbird and other Church Committee findings. Every peek we've had into that world since then continues to come up dirty too. Operation SHAMROCK was considered a big deal at the time, but we've since then allowed American intelligence to vastly eclipse anything even conceivable at the time.
Other countries programs aren't good or anything, but anyone who's deluded themselves into thinking the US is some kind of clean actor, not participating in this sort of stuff, or only using it for good is more optimistic than I could ever manage being.
- dependenttypes 7y agoRuby Ridge and Waco siege happened only in the 90s as well. Currently we have killer drones assassinating people without trial, CBP ignoring policies (https://vc.gg/blog/so-its-been-a-while.html https://vc.gg/blog/so-its-been-a-while.html), sending agents to scare activists (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6946909), and police blowing up houses of innocents and refusing to compensate them (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399770 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21399770).
- frandroid 7y agoFor those, like me, who didn't know about Letelier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Letelier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_Letelier