• swlabr@awful.systems
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    8 days ago

    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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        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!

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                  8 days ago

                  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.

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                    8 days ago

                    Not defending the US foreign policy, but this is just right-wing propaganda

                    lol. I got horseshoe theory’d.

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                    8 days ago

                    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.

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          8 days ago

          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?