Gotta counter the Lemmygrad propaganda going on here lately.

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    8 days ago

    “Compatible left” is an interesting choice of words. It comes from CIA documents if I remember correctly.

    I have a question. Do you trust the CIA?

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        7 days ago

        And do you trust the CIA not to lie about that?

        Because if I were a fed I would probably leak false internal memos filled with bad information.

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          7 days ago

          There’s a difference between ‘leaked’ documents and ‘declassified’ documents. For example, CIA recruited non-communist leftist writers and intellectuals in Mexico .

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              7 days ago

              To people? No. That’s their entire business. To their own chain of command? Why Would they be writing fiction about their daily report on what they already were doing, you idiot!?

              It’s like saying the Iran coup wasn’t their work, they just ‘leaked’ the fake documents 40 years later.

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                7 days ago

                First of all, watch the ableism. There’s no reason to cast dispersions on innocent people just because you can’t articulate your grievances.

                Second, don’t try to delegitimize my point by contrasting it with an unrelated incident such as the Iran coup.

                Now, my question is still unanswered. Do you as a leftist with presumably some knowledge of the CIA and their actions trust the CIA not to falsify documents that they know are going to be released to the public? If your claim is that the chain of command keeps them honest then perhaps we should ask about that. Do you trust the US federal government not to falsify documents with the understanding that it will provide a niche to wedge their opposition apart from?

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                  7 days ago

                  Did you read what you wrote before hitting ‘post’?

                  How is the Iran coup unrelated? Both of these activities were CIA psyop missions. Both were documented internally and then later declassified under the ‘freedom of information act’.

                  And in this particular case, the articles and propaganda produced by these CIA-funded ‘leftist’ media outlets are there. So you can double-check if the contents of these articles matches the objectives mentioned in the files.

                  And it didn’t only stop at Mexico.

                  Your commenting pattern is so weird, comrade. Gave me one more reason to hate the broad term ‘leftist’. Especially in the west.

                  No matter how much you try to find a ‘gotcha’ moment, I am a materialist. I don’t make claims that can’t be backed up by logic, reason, and the existing historical evidence.

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                    7 days ago

                    Oh really? Well, no true materialist would refuse the opportunity to flex their theory. So please, show your work. A basic triangular scenario will do fine. I’ll even help.

                    Here are your predicates

                    T(x, y) “y should trust x”

                    I_dec(x, y) “‘x’ has an interest in deceiving ‘y’”

                    H_dec(x, y) “‘x’ has a history of deceiving ‘y’”

                    I_hon(x,z) “‘x’ has an interest in being honest to ‘z’”

                    Go ahead, basic logic.