• Fayne [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Same thing happened to me, one person I’ve talked to said that operation condor and CIA overthrowing governments in the Global South is conspiracy theory

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      the fascinating thing is that you can show them official document dumps like the freedom of information act and they STILL won’t believe it.

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        I prefer people that deny “CIA conspiracy theories” to the ones that are aware of them, but defend them. Long time ago I had a teacher in high school that was a “centrist” and he was in support of CIA coup in Iran. He didn’t know anything about Iran; not even the fact that APOC existed and was exploiting oil fields there. The only reason that he had shown support for Shah (he didn’t know who the Shah was, he only knew that there was some guy that was in charge of Iran before the islamic revolution) is that he was “pro-western”

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          the ones that are aware of them, but defend them

          I regret learning that these people exist