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Re:Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube by graderjs on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:52AM (#30685247)
CIA is basically an "economic interests" vector, right? This really meshes, your statement about using the big corporates as state instruments on the sly. (I guess that's not all that different to Chinese 'state owned' enterprises. They're just more overt. West operates more covert and deceptive. A continuation of a trend, heh :))

What's your thinking about the second-order effects, larger ramifications of this?

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Re:Oliver Stone’s 2016 Ukraine Documentary Banned on YouTube by disambiguation on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:51PM (#30713966)
Hard to say. Probably further erosion of individualism in the west. Foreign interference will be used as a pretext to railroad policies like digital currency, digital ID, etc. This is of course a slippery slope to the China model of mass surveillance and social credit scores.

How this mixes with the constitution and western values is uncertain. You can still have free speech and human rights in such a system, its just that much more fragile.

That, or foreign interference prevails and our enemies trick us into civil war and we destroy ourselves that way.

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