I try to look towards the better angels of everyone’s nature. Being jaded and cynical rarely solves problems.
Re:Operation Gladio
by giraffe_lady on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:24AM
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"The CIA can't seem to stop itself from training and supporting fascist movements" is actually a useful pattern to notice if the problem you're trying to solve is "where do these fascist movements keep coming from??"
Considering that cynical is a judgment that I don't think is very useful here. It also assumes there is some valid, correct, non-cynical view of the CIA that assumes they don't do this. Which is fantastical, at least as useless a way to approach the world as cynicism.
Re:Operation Gladio
by scaramanga on Monday October 03, 2022 @09:53PM
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Optimism of spirit, pessimism of the intellect.
Living in a dream world not only fails to solve problems, but I have noticed, tends to perpetuate them.
If you think it's shocking that the US works with fascists, it can only because you know nothing at all about US foreign policy and how it works.
The idea that it's "off the rails" rather than something that repeats so ofte it's not even interesting is _buck wild_ :)