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Comment by atentaten | Hacker News Reader

How are our clandestine agencies covertly or overtly helping us live healthier, meaningful, social-media-free lives?

Who do you think made TOR? or SE Linux? or uncovers plots to import fentanyl to our shores and lace it into simple products to harm our citizens? Or leverages the dark web and social media platforms to monitor and disrupt foreign networks?

Stay off of social media is my suggestion. Social media is basically a weapon.

> to import fentanyl to our shores and lace it into simple products to harm our citizens?

If you need yo bring this up, then you are just in effective at your job

Go do an stuxnet type attack on the installations of the sackler family or shut up, these few companies have killed more of your own nationals than Russia, Iran, and China put together, you and your people clearly have got no scruples when it comes to breaking your own laws of operating in mainland US, yet instead of fixing the homeland problems, you go searching doe foreign dragons to slay, incompetent, simply incompetent

I agree with the prescription to stay off weaponized social propaganda platforms and focus on your local community, but I don't see how you can ask people to blindly trust the CIA. Too many misdeeds to count.

- Fabricating justification for war (Vietnam, Iraq) - Fabricating evidence of treason by a sitting President (Trump-Russia) - Overthrowing democratically elected governments (e.g. Iran) - Starting civil wars (e.g. Nicaragua) - Assassinating thousands of people, often with collateral killing of innocents - And drugs drugs drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_traffi...

Ultimately, do we live in a better world thanks to the CIA? From where I sit, I'd need a lot of convincing to believe that.

they grow opium in afghanistan which becomes heroin which kills people in the us. they do this to fund operations they could never fund legally. literally everyone knows this

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