• Sibshops@lemm.eeOP
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    5 days ago

    Honestly, this looks like you don’t have any evidence to show that USAID is a front for the CIA, so you are resorting to ad hominum as a way to save face.

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      Hey, buddy, listen. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean it like that. Sorry if I hurt your feelings. I love the CIA. And USAID. Really, I do. Please don’t accuse me of ad hominum [sic], that would break my heart. And evidence? Of course, there’s no evidence. The US is a perfect little angel; everything it does is moral and good. It’s just that big old meanie trump making a mess of things, that’s all. Does that make it better?

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        Does that make it better?

        To be honest, not really. Usually when there is a claim it goes, I believe that X is true because of Y reasons. Not what ever this is that you are attempting.

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            Buttcoin is the future of online butts. Buttcoin is a peer-to-peer butt. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new butts or tracks butts.

            A community for hurling ordure at cryptocurrency/blockchain dweebs of all sorts. We are only here for debate as long as it amuses us. Meme stocks are also on topic.

            How is that relevant?

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          nah what’s happening here is I am making claim X. Then you go: are you claiming Y? Prove it! And then I go: no. Then you start talking all this shit about covert CIA ops and mafia pizza joints and whatever, showing no signs of understanding that I said X. What choice do I have but to conclude that you are an idiot

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            Then show supporting evidence for your X then?

            USAID is that it is primarily a front for CIA operations

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              This was my X:

              My understanding of USAID is that it is primarily a front for CIA operations.

              Evidence:

              ??? You want brain scans?

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                Exactly, you made the whole thing up.

                USAID is not primarily a front for CIA operations. It is a organization responsible for foreign aid and development. Sure the CIA has used some USAID programs for their own purposes, but that doesn’t mean USAID itself is primarily a CIA operation.

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                  It is a organization responsible for foreign aid and development

                  My mistake! Sorry, Captain America! I will never be cynical about US foreign policy ever again!

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                    Not defending the US foreign policy, but this is just right-wing propaganda to cut funding to essential programs. So I’m shutting it down.