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The problem with not voting (fedia.io)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm convinced that the CIA is somehow causing the American left to be unable to organize, because with organization comes power, and the left having power would mean a shift away from corporate rule.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Like by infiltrating, arresting, and executing them? It's the FBI. You know about COINTELPRO, right? There are tons of FBI documents talking about how they did exactly that. Or like... The drug war?

    This shit is recent and still going on. I have a friend who's an organizer. The FBI comes and knocks on his door every April just to tell him they're watching him. This happens to every visible organizer in the Seattle area. I mean, fucking Durkan and Robert Child's.

    The US apparatus of state violence primarily targets the left. We live under a continuous counterinsurgency program and it's mostly targeted and keeping the left from organizing. Go read Life During Wartime and watch Trouble episode 6.

    There's huge and well documented paper trail. The CIA prevents democracy aborad, the FBI prevents it at home.

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