• swlabr@awful.systems
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    Well, at this point, you’re just being obtuse.

    I still don’t get what a non-covert front is.

    That’s a term you made up, so that’s a classic “you problem”!

    You said USAID is a front for CIA operations and it isn’t covert when it does these operations. […] Like I’m picturing a pizza parlor which is a front for a mafia operation, but instead of being covert, it is open. So it says “Mafia’s Pizza” instead of “Tony’s Pizza”. Are you thinking USAID is something like that?

    Again, you’re the one coming up with this. Stop thinking. You aren’t good at it.

    Propaganda certainly does exist. I never said that it didn’t.

    Great!

    I’m disputing that USAID is a CIA operation and not an independent organization with it’s own goals and directives.

    Good for you!

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      Honestly, this looks like you don’t have any evidence to show that USAID is a front for the CIA, so you are resorting to ad hominum as a way to save face.

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        Hey, buddy, listen. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it like that. Sorry if I hurt your feelings. I love the CIA. And USAID. Really, I do. Please don’t accuse me of ad hominum [sic], that would break my heart. And evidence? Of course, there’s no evidence. The US is a perfect little angel; everything it does is moral and good. It’s just that big old meanie trump making a mess of things, that’s all. Does that make it better?

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          Does that make it better?

          To be honest, not really. Usually when there is a claim it goes, I believe that X is true because of Y reasons. Not what ever this is that you are attempting.

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              Buttcoin is the future of online butts. Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts.

              A community for hurling ordure at cryptocurrency/blockchain dweebs of all sorts. We are only here for debate as long as it amuses us. Meme stocks are also on topic.

              How is that relevant?

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            nah what’s happening here is I am making claim X. Then you go: are you claiming Y? Prove it! And then I go: no. Then you start talking all this shit about covert CIA ops and mafia pizza joints and whatever, showing no signs of understanding that I said X. What choice do I have but to conclude that you are an idiot

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              Then show supporting evidence for your X then?

              USAID is that it is primarily a front for CIA operations

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                This was my X:

                My understanding of USAID is that it is primarily a front for CIA operations.

                Evidence:

                ??? You want brain scans?

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                  Exactly, you made the whole thing up.

                  USAID is not primarily a front for CIA operations. It is a organization responsible for foreign aid and development. Sure the CIA has used some USAID programs for their own purposes, but that doesn’t mean USAID itself is primarily a CIA operation.

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                    It is a organization responsible for foreign aid and development

                    My mistake! Sorry, Captain America! I will never be cynical about US foreign policy ever again!