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[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (2 children)

makes one wonder how much of a dumbass Emily Blunt must be.

or if it's dead-eyed transactionalism to be at the top of the list for reactionary militarism movies and TV and cake up.

if so, guess he's not a fan of Vonnegut, because in the end we are who we pretend to be.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Hey she could just also be evil

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

fresh from the lathe we got fascist us senator jim from the office

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

I'm glad he got mauled to death by those sound-sensing alien monsters

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago

Jim fell off after Pam left his bitch ass😔

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

So in the late 1980s and especially 1990s the CIA went through a long delayed, but probably inevitable, American institutionalisation. Whistleblowers and ex-removed who straddled the era still talk about this split. And it's institutional, not just political.

Point being, especially post 2021, the CIA (like every other agency) ballooned massively. The bottom rungs expanded massively. Why not after all? Wouldn't it be useful to actually have analysts who spoke some of the dozens and dozens of languages spoken in countries where the US is based.

That's part of the reason you have Havana syndrome. It's part of reason you have Office dipshits being PR guys like it's the Navy or whatever. It's bloat bullshit.

Don't get me wrong. It might not be the same private club of a dozen people it was in the 50s/60s and a load of cutouts. But theres no evidence or reason that the upper echelons of that famously extra-legal, extra-political org has really changed in term of dynamics. It's just a different set who, like they did historically, mostly operate outside the official institutional mandate.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

we should all

"We" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here

What a shithead

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's why I'm a Creed Branton man. You know what you're getting.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

You're getting pickpocketed, that's still better than praising the CIA though

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

WTF Jim would never say this

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

We should also cherish Seal Team Six because they killed Bin Laden and are true hero patriots.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Mr Hw cannot disclose his whereabouts on November 22 looks at the camera