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kergonathtoday at 3:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

> There's nothing the CIA does without political motivation.

Even then, political motivation in itself does not make it inaccurate. It’s easy to see why a liberal democracy supposed to defend liberty across the globe would be interested in making facts accessible. Facts and education are the best way to fight obscurantism and totalitarianism. It’s also easy to see why a regime sliding back towards autocracy would have no interest in doing it. If they were competent, they could have continued pretending they cared and actually use it as a propaganda tool. Same with Radio Liberty and the others.


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schnabletoday at 4:07 PM

there used to be a higher alignment in the US between political motivations and morality.

lyu07282today at 3:29 PM

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