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Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet by boffinAudio on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @06:11AM (#40062553)
The US' three-letter oppression-industrial complex agencies are staffed, invariably, by religious zealots who are hell-bent on getting on with their own agenda, willfully using those agencies resources ..

See, for example, the case of the CIA: the second largest Mormon community outside of the Church of LDS, itself.

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Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet by Der_Einzige on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @09:57AM (#40064681)
Related fun fact. The owner of the website Civit.ai (the huggingface of diffusion models, and also the place where all the AI porn is being made), is a Mormon.

Take that how you will, but in light of your comments, it’s fascinating.

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Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet by boffinAudio on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:36AM (#40073876)
Its not a popular thing to do, but pointing out the influence of religious organizations on modern society is vital to our future as a free, open, and democratic society - if we are ever to become one, again.
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Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet by BlueTemplar on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @03:48PM (#40069316)
I hardly know anything about the Mormons - I thought they were pretty isolationist, which seems to go completely against what the NSA and especially the CIA does - what would be their agenda ??
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Re:The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet by boffinAudio on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:35AM (#40073871)
Not a joke: The supremacy of the will of the American people over all others.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-mormons-make-great...

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