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I would be proud to go work directly for the CIA, but I’m too selfish to do so, because the pay would be worse than what I’m doing now. Not all Americans loath
by avalys 5y ago
I would be proud to go work directly for the CIA, but I’m too selfish to do so, because the pay would be worse than what I’m doing now.
Not all Americans loath their country and the institutions that help maintain it - imperfect though they may be.
- aaomidi 5y agoI mean, that's a pretty shitty view considering how many lives the CIA has ruined. How many generations they've burned. How much unnecessary suffering they've caused. But, I mean, if the thought of people suffering brings you calm at night - go for it! You know you're a shitty org when you have a whole wikipedia page dedicated to you being shitty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
- sneak 5y agoI'm going to assume ignorance here, versus malice.
- astrange 5y agoA lot of people use "CIA" to mean "everything bad about the government". I've seen people claiming the CIA started the Iraq War, which they were actually opposed to and the admin had to ignore them to get it going.
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- refenestrator 5y agoThey could just mean "the CIA's record, specifically". There's plenty there.
- astrange 5y agoClaiming that things are their historical record leads to fighting the last war and not the next one.
- refenestrator 5y agoOh, for christ's sake, it's been like 75 years if you include the OSS. They're the department with an image of white-collar intelligence collection and a huge sideline in dirty fighting to maintain American hegemony. That's who they are, have been and who they will be.
- sneak 5y agoNo, I just mean the people orchestrating extrajudicial assassinations of US citizens (and others) and operating torture prisons.