CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

Re:CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The Wo... by idle_zealot on Thursday February 05, 2026 @03:57PM (#46905194)

You're talking about that effective soft power, yes. There are some smarter authoritarians still maintaining it, but when things get overt it loses a lot of efficacy. We've swung from 1/2 to 1/3 support for Republicans, despite most people going about their lives more-or-less normally outside of one small city. So that swing is attributed to a failure of soft power. Check out opinions in Minneapolis to see what application of hard power looks like.

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Re:CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The Wo... by tremon on Saturday February 07, 2026 @04:26AM (#46922519)

> outside of one small city

We're conveniently forgetting Chicago, Portland, Houston, Charlotte now?

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Re:CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The Wo... by scarecrowbob on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:27PM (#46925627)

Ah damn, I thought they were talking about the "one small city" I live in in rural CO.

Where where ICE kidnapped a bunch of folk who were legitimate parts of our community.

Where my anarchistic line of "I have stopped caring about the law and have a hard moral boundary that if a person can live here and keep up a house and job and contribute to our community they are as 'legal' as anyone else" is starting to get a real hold even among my historically Democrat-voting friends.

But yeah, I wouldn't forget those comparative metropolises, because I'd figure that the sentiment is even stronger where even more people can see the reality of which humans are being trafficked by the US gov.

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