there used to be a higher alignment in the US between political motivations and morality.
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You're too naive if you think it's completely true, but too cynical if you think it's completely false.
Re:CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
by GuinansEyebrows on Thursday February 05, 2026 @11:19AM
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only as cynical as the CIA :)
What a joke, everyone here is so fucking brainwashed its like talking to a north korean peasant with a radio in their bedroom they can't turn off.
Re:CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
by mangodrunk on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:22AM
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>It’s easy to see why a liberal democracy supposed to defend liberty across the globe would be interested in making facts accessible.
Who is supposed to defend liberty across the globe? Do you think the US has been doing that and should be doing that?
The point of OP was that the facts from the CIA can’t be trusted. That they can lie about the facts.
Even then, political motivation in itself does not make it inaccurate. It’s easy to see why a liberal democracy supposed to defend liberty across the globe would be interested in making facts accessible. Facts and education are the best way to fight obscurantism and totalitarianism. It’s also easy to see why a regime sliding back towards autocracy would have no interest in doing it. If they were competent, they could have continued pretending they cared and actually use it as a propaganda tool. Same with Radio Liberty and the others.