• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Why don’t yousee the connection. Both are instances of covert violence by the US. One is a foreign affair, the other domnestic.

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        3 days ago

        That doesn’t matter for this original statement:

        If the CIA helped that’s fine, people like that should not be in power.

        We also don’t know if the FBI killed MLK. Does that mean that we can’t condemn them if they did it?

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          They’re saying it’s okay if they helped but not saying to what extent it is okay to them, does murdering people count as helping etc. By asking you might get a feel what sort of actions they’re okay with.

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            3 days ago

            They’re saying it’s okay if they helped but not saying to what extent it is okay to them

            It is imperialism either way. No matter the degree.

            does murdering people count as helping etc.

            Depends on who you ask. Both imperialism and covert murder by the state are done in the interest of the enacting nation. And I refuse to confuse these interests with my own (or those of “the people”).

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              I just don’t think it counts as covert violence you mentioned earlier if CIA isn’t party to or in some degree involved in the violence

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                3 days ago

                But we’re talking hypotheticals here. Of course it’s not violence if it didn’t occur.

                Let’s say I say the statement: “It’s ok if I kick puppies!” Is that stance ok to have, if I’ve never kicked a puppy?