I am 26, it took me 24 years to figure out that agencies like the CIA do a ton of bad stuff. Why did I not know this? Why did it take me investigating on my own? Was i just brainwashed by all the movies, etc?
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I am 26, it took me 24 years to figure out that agencies like the CIA do a ton of bad stuff. Why did I not know this? Why did it take me investigating on my own? Was i just brainwashed by all the movies, etc?
In about 10 years you'll realize that most people in power do 'bad' stuff. They figure out that most people are morons and will fall for pretty words.
World is mostly an evil place due to human nature. We in the western world have been trying to overwrite human nature (with systems and laws) to create a functional society. Those overwrites are being destroyed one by one.
That's a pretty perfect description.
"X-Files" has entered the chat
Operation Mockingbird.
This. Also the Smith-Mundt "modernization" act in 2012, allowing domestic use of propaganda, broadcast in the country instead to foreign countries. And direct campaigns with the movie industry.
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/operation-tinseltown-how-the-cia-manipulates-hollywood/491138/
"Ever since its inception in 1947, the CIA has been covertly working with Hollywood. But it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the agency formally hired an entertainment industry liaison and began openly courting favorable treatment in films and television. During the Clinton presidency, the CIA took its Hollywood strategy to a new level—trying to take more control of its own mythmaking. In 1996, the CIA hired one of its veteran clandestine officers, Chase Brandon, to work directly with Hollywood studios and production companies to upgrade its image. “We’ve always been portrayed erroneously as evil and Machiavellian,” Brandon later told The Guardian. “It took us a long time to support projects that portray us in the light we want to be seen in.”
CIA has been infiltrated with Communists for a long time.
However, we reached a new low when Obama appointed Brennan - who actually BOASTED of having voted for a Communist for President.
They don't perform the function they were intended to serve.
Yes.
They have few successes and keep their failures and excesses forever classified because of "muh national security."
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/07/operation-tinseltown-how-the-cia-manipulates-hollywood/491138/
Wow!!
https://imgflip.com/i/34rlz5 lol? not really?
The CIA has always done the shady stuff but the FBI was always supposed to be the hero. Of course that hasn't played true at all.
Well Hollywood is known to have been infiltrated by the CIA.
Don't forget all those shows with the noble FBI agents.
Holy shit you're right, All the President's Men was '76, propaganda all about Watergate.
True, my grandpa was in the FBI. I dont know what he saw that bothered him, but something bothered him enough to leave.
Respect to your grandfather for not going along.
“Quantico”
"Enemy of the State" really opened my eyes wide!!!!
Books too.
Bit paranoid....most of them are just paper pushers.
What is the American Nationalist Party? The National Party was an early-20th-century national political organization in the United States founded by pro-war defectors from the Socialist Party of America in 1917.
So, you're a dirty fucking socialist.
Where did you get that idea? Never said or thought anything like that lol