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Sure.
That would be the long and short of it.
Definitely don't look up these terms, they might be above your reading level:
Great!
Putting aside the equivocation, that's a lousy counterexample. Are you just going to pretend like propaganda doesn't exist?
I still don't get what a non-covert front is. 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?
Propaganda certainly does exist. I never said that it didn't. I'm disputing that USAID is a CIA operation and not an independent organization with it's own goals and directives.
Well, at this point, you're just being obtuse.
That's a term you made up, so that's a classic "you problem"!
Again, you're the one coming up with this. Stop thinking. You aren't good at it.
Great!
Good for you!
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.
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?
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.
please for the love of basilisk read the sidebar
Shhh my amusement has not run out yet
How is that relevant?
hint hint
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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
Then show supporting evidence for your X then?
This was my X:
Evidence:
??? You want brain scans?
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.
My mistake! Sorry, Captain America! I will never be cynical about US foreign policy ever again!
Not defending the US foreign policy, but this is just right-wing propaganda to cut funding to essential programs. So I'm shutting it down.
oh precious
lol. I got horseshoe theory'd.
OK, you don't have the authority to shut things down on awful.systems. But I do! Please enjoy your free trip to the egress.
you are missing the fucking point
stop posting
There's a point?
not to your posting, no
(I do see you already got shown the egress but I’ve been running around for hours)