this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Weird example, as you're saying pretty explicitly exactly where the money went, and plenty of people would be fine with it

[โ€“] Chakravanti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well Gary Webb would have had a good argument about the CIA's history of exactly that but he commited suicide by shooting himself in the head. Twice. Two weeks before he was going to court as a journalist with evidence that the CIA was dealing cocaine to America.