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All these 3-letter acronyms exists to further American interests - for a long time that was primarily the military/industrial complex followed by oil/gas. We're
by dwd 6y ago
All these 3-letter acronyms exists to further American interests - for a long time that was primarily the military/industrial complex followed by oil/gas. We're now just seeing the focus switch to supporting big tech as a priority.
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- boomboomsubban 6y agoIt's still distressing to see those intelligence agencies further entrench themselves into fields perfectly suited for a surveillance state. Their reputation makes trusting that they won't abuse it difficult. It may suit national interest, but it bodes poorly for the public interest.
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- dwd 6y agoThey help the companies, who help the Government in return. And the whole conspiracy is carried on via the revolving doors of influence and networks of who knows who. Where the public suffers is that it's their tax money that funds this rather than going towards education, health, essential services, better wages, social and economic mobility - the list goes on.
- boomboomsubban 6y ago>They help the companies, who help the Government in return. And the whole conspiracy is carried on via the revolving doors of influence and networks of who knows who. Except now one of the ways the companies can help the government is with readymade worldwide surveillance. That is much scarier than anything Dole could offer.
- KingOfCoders 6y agoUnited Fruit.
- dwd 6y agoEast India Company - been the case for a long time.
- whatshisface 6y ago>All these 3-letter acronyms exists to further American interests That's a strangely Aristotelian view of organizations. It is as if you are suggesting that the 3-letter agencies have a fundamental essence outside of the intentions of the people who work there.
- pc86 6y agoI think their point was that these organizations are supposed to be filled with public servants, civil servants, and military/former military whose aims are the furthering of American interests. That's why they were started, and for at least some period of time (not necessarily through recent history, but maybe?) that's what they were. Honestly that's part of the argument for public servants making less money than their private sector counter-parts, that a big part of their "compensation" is being part of these huge organizations "saving America" or whatever patriotic spin you want to put on it.
- R0b0t1 6y agoCompartmentalization allows for that. You operate with orders to accomplish X, and it is more than possible to hide why you are accomplishing X. Typically it goes like this: lobbyist meets with policy maker, policy maker decides objectives for [a-z]{3}, [a-z]{3} undertakes missions in support of lobbyist's objectives.