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You can care all you want about human rights, that doesn't mean you're not falling for propaganda.
The CIA once overthrew the peaceful, democratic government of Iran, and covered up their involvement for decades. Why would they not be able to do similar things today? Did they just woke up one day and suddenly get a change of heart, after facing no consequences for their actions? And that's just one example, they did similar things in so many countries all around the globe. You just don't often hear about it, because, well...
If you don't think the feds are capable of exploiting concern about human rights to influence people's opinions, I don't even know what to tell you.
Yea sure lol whatever you think anyone was asking for and makes sense in your head.
I have no idea what that even means.
No one was talking about Iran or overthrowing governments
Your original post was about the CIA. They were giving an example of evil, anti-human rights activities by the CIA. Their comment is directly related to your post, whether you agree with it or not.
Lol the post is about paranoid crazies. Tankies.
Do you think the question of whether the CIA actually does evil stuff and successfully covers it up is unrelated to whether people are "paranoid crazies" for thinking that the CIA is doing evil stuff and covering it up?
Dude the meme is showing that tankies attack leftists for criticising the brutality they support, by coming up with claiming their own altruistic pacifistic based conclusion is just CIA propaganda. I don't need a secret service to tell me that the violence of Kremlin was and still is pure shit. That's just your paranoia. Accept that you're hated by most
Lol, right. I guess propaganda just doesn't work then, all you have to do is come to "your own conclusions."
Go back in time a bit and people's "own conclusions" were that the CIA was uninvolved in the Iranian coup. And they arrived at those conclusions because the CIA lied about it and covered it up. And you would be dismissing the people who suspected their involvement as "paranoid crazies."
It's just ridiculous. What do you think propaganda even looks like? A secret service agent just walks up and starts telling you shit? Absolutely laughable.
Bruh the point of the meme is not about CIA, you're making 1 thing the center of all your thinking.
"You're a paranoid crazy for thinking the CIA is influencing people's views."
"But the CIA does influence people's views, and here's evidence."
"Stop making this about the CIA!"
Lol ok.