• RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    We let Putin do this too

    The Chinese have/had entire secret police departments in the US to harass their nationals

    What the fuck are we getting for our counterintelligence spending?

    Edit: I forgot the solid core of MAGA Republicans who are obvious acting as paid Russian agents.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      We’ve been largely ignoring it for decades because “we won the Cold War”. Then, starting in 2016, the Trump administration stuck a bunch of Trump’s buddies into a bunch of extremely important intelligence/counter-intel positions, and they basically tried to use the agencies they were in charge of as mechanisms to help Trump gain and consolidate more power above all other goals.

      The amount of people who think Trump is “strong on defense” just because he acts like a bully is just… astounding.

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      11 months ago

      America is captured space. We give more money to a religious ethnostate half a world away than we do to our own citizens. The security state is happier jerking off and oppressing leftists than they would be doing their actual jobs.