• modestmeme@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Yes indeed, everything that strays from the dogma at hand is whataboutism. Historical perspective, nuanced details, everything. To say the CIA is bad implicitly implies everyone else was good.

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        12 days ago

        Can you not have more than one thought in your head at any given time? Why would stating that CIA is bad imply that everyone else was good?

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            12 days ago

            Nobody is forbidding talk about the atrocities of the KGB, though. Have you considered you’re just perhaps a little jaded by .ml and just need to chill?

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              11 days ago

              I assure you, based on the responses to my initial comment (and the copious down arrows) that NO we can not talk about the KGB. It’s the CIA alone in the world f’ing up nations. That is the narrative. Do not look at a bigger picture.

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                11 days ago

                Nope. The down arrows to your comment are due the sheer insanity of it. You’re saying that every criticism of the CIA has to include a disclaimer saying the KGB is also bad or you’re supporting it. You’re completely and utterly out of your mind.

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                  11 days ago

                  Nope. Didn’t say that at all. What I said was the CIA criticism -and it’s justified criticism- never carries with it any criticism of the Soviets, who were doing very similar shit. And for some reason that just pisses people off.

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          12 days ago

          I’ve been hearing about CIA atrocities for decades. They’re real, they’re ongoing, they’re something people should know about. But most folks who dwell on the CIA never ever look into the other side of the Cold War, the KGB, the Soviet Union, and all the equally heinous shit they did. It’s like they didn’t exist and the CIA did its deeds out of perverse fun & psychosis. It was decades of covert “war” between two competing superpowers. Acknowledge that there were two sides and they both engaged in covert war activities.