• mushroommunk@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    They even say right in the article the Ukrainians got sign off from the CIA before the mission. There’s no hidden shadow CIA agenda. It’s right there in the open.

    You talk about people not being able to find a truth while guzzling their slop machine output. Mydude. Lol. I even set you up for an easy win but knew you’d take the bait. Put down the slop machine and go touch grass. Please. And learn to think again instead of just slopped conspiracies.

    Edit to add a quote from a YouTuber, Milo aka miniminuteman: “You gotta stop inventing shadow conspiracy governments to be mad at. The real government is right there and doing plenty worth getting mad at. You don’t need to make up more when they’re right there”

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      7 days ago

      Reading the article, it doesn’t read that the CIA said yes to conduct the operation, they just didn’t say no (which would likely mean exposing the operation before it happened).

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      7 days ago

      “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” - EX CIA Director William Casey

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        (The origin of the quote is suspicious, the evidence he said it is very slim but we’ll operate on the assumption he did).

        Wow, coming back hours later to drop a second comment because you got no reply on the first with an out of context quote from a single director only a month after he was sworn in as director, back in 19 flipping 81. Just ignoring the whole, I dunno, Iran-Contra work he had just been involved in starting and wanted to make sure stayed buried that could motivate that quote? The Iran-Contra affair they really didn’t want exposed at all but was exposed by, I dunno, award winning journalists like the one that you’re now trying to discredit? The quote that makes more sense in all of his actions to refer to American beliefs about certain CIA actions and not literally everything? The quote often trotted out with zero of this extra context by conspiracy theorists who have gone off the deep end and considered world over as a sign of someone to ignore?

        Oh I’m sorry, was I not supposed to do my own research?

        I refer back to my original quote from Milo: "You gotta stop inventing shadow conspiracy governments to be mad at. The real government is right there and doing plenty worth getting mad at. You don’t need to make up more when they’re right there”

        Like seriously. You can just be mad at them for Iran-Contra or MKUltra or that former agent who stole $40 million in gold bars. You don’t have to make up some shadowy government bs. The real government is right there and deserves the ire.

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      That’s the whole point. Cia feeds ten or twenty different stories so the real one is never agreed upon. That’s what this story is, it’s just some trash story to confuse the plebs.