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I don't see how the US recovers from the destruction in the government and among the people the past few years. It feels absolutely hopeless.
by i2cmaster 3y ago
I don't see how the US recovers from the destruction in the government and among the people the past few years. It feels absolutely hopeless.
- 0zemp2c 3y agoLol, just tell people you'll do things like bail out their student loans and they'll easily overlook stuff like this
- sschueller 3y agoThis isn't new. It has been this way for a very long time, just now this information is easily leaked and seen by many.
- blitzar 3y ago> the past few years If by "few" you mean multiple decades; then yes, I don't know how they will ever recover.
- christophilus 3y agoIf by multiple decades you mean century, then yes, I don’t know how they will ever recover.
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- strictfp 3y agoThey've been pulling shady stuff for ages. Ever heard of the false flag attacks in relation to Cuba? The bay of pigs false flag bombings, and the proposed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods ? Terrible stuff.
- aa-jv 3y ago.. not to mention the impressive apparatus that was applied to make people think that the Cuban missile crisis started with Soviet missiles showing up in Cuba ..
- jojobas 3y agoYou're right, it started with Soviet troops remaining all over Eastern Europe after WW2.
- geraldhh 3y agoyou mean like the us troops in western europe? no, srsly, idk what's what
- jojobas 3y agoMate, Soviets outnumbered USA+UK in Europe by a factor of 2 as of late 1945 (see Operation Unthinkable) and it only got worse from there. In 1949 there were about 3.5 million Soviet soldiers spread across East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechia etc. The entire US army went below 1 million by 1947, with a very small fraction deployed in Europe. The West was consistently on defensive/deterrence against the USSR throughout the Cold War, there's no point denying that.
- aa-jv 3y agoSure. This is why nukes were sent to Turkey...
- Sharlin 3y agoEver heard of Joseph McCarthy? J. Edgar Hoover? Dick Cheney, the PATRIOT Act, all that?
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoDidn’t it come out later that McCarthy was correct 100% of his accusations?
- nonethewiser 3y agoGet rid of the FBI as a start
- mistermann 3y agoLuckily we live in a democracy so this is the will of the people, imagine how bad it would be if we didn't live in a democracy.
- DrThunder 3y agoI don't know if you're being sarcastic, but the people have not elected the FBI or any other 3 letter agency that seems to have infiltrated every facet of our government. These agencies have more power than our elected officials right now.
- sixothree 3y agoThe country was founded on checks and balances. We keep forgetting that lesson over and over again.
- DrThunder 3y agoYep, it seem our executive branch, 3 letter agencies want to bypass all of those be Judge Dredd.
- mistermann 3y agoOh I'm definitely being sarcastic.....I am endlessly fascinated by the mental hoops (the various caveats they will inject into their articulation of "democracy") people will jump through to continue believing that their country "is" democratic. I appreciate that this is a very complicated space that requires flexibility, compromise, etc, my complaint is that we tend to pretend (often extremely enthusiastically) that the situation is actually simple. If something is good, I don't think it should require continual lying, deceit, and delusion to prop it up in the minds of the population.
- shadowgovt 3y agoI mean... 79% of Democrats say the FBI is doing a good job (https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-10-05/poll-americans-view-of-the-fbi-improves-but-partisan-gap-widens https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-10-0...). I'd say the US is democratic with a polity that is deeply split on some key issues. But that doesn't imply the government doesn't reflect the will of the people (sometimes the will of the people is "a hot mess;" this was one of the deep concerns of the people who set up the Constitution in the first place).
- micromacrofoot 3y agothe FBI has been misusing its power since its inception, it's always been this way, you're just aware of it now — hopefully this broader awareness can help