LOL "instead"...no, bby. Not instead.

  • Abraxiel
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    3 years ago

    Is this him realizing the mentioned friend's job in finance was almost certainly a cover?

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    That's usually the case more than actual asset assets. You can just platform people already saying what you want, there's enough people out there that you'll find em. Less leaky and cheaper.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yep, the ideal is to make the career paths of true believers easier. There's no "controversy", as there is never any direct quid pro quo. And in the long term it's incredibly effective at pushing narratives in your direction. Imo the way the Kochs have managed to completely normalize their relatively extreme ideas in a few decades by simply funding econ departments and think tanks is a great example.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        People need to imagine this stuff being done in office buildings by office dudes they've worked with and not dark rooms where shadowy figures smoke cigars and they'll get a way more real picture of how this shit works.

    • Galli [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is also why 99% of news is now reporting on fringe twitter users

      • tim [he/him,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Blue check reporters be like “I’ve seen this take 4 times today. Must be popular enough to write about”

    • tim [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      A lot of foreign policy plants only require paying off a local newspaper in another country and connecting it with a low level reporter at the targeted publication. They cite a stringer they “met in college” and point to a foreign language newspaper if anyone asks. The editors don’t know the difference.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Sometimes I wonder about how much CIA money went to communists when they were overthrowing the French president in the 60s.

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Theory: he’s a Manchurian candidate who enters a hypnotic trance when he hears the word “brunch.”

  • MorphoTheMagnificent [undecided]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Matt Yglesias's phone is blowing up right now with so many texts from people he knew at Dalton and Harvard, and his old coworkers at the Atlantic, like "Hey buddy! I was just thinking about you for no particular reason at all and wanted to check in and see how you're doing!"

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    "Wow, every single one of my friends and associates seem to be spook-adjacent, have all the same interests as spooks, and yet they're all just simple normal professionals with job titles like Cultural Attache or Trade consultant for Universal Exports' Yemen office...wierd."

    • MorphoTheMagnificent [undecided]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Matthew Yglesias lived in the basement of an undercover operative (and a landlord to boot) and his friend who went into structured finance is also definitely an operative, because that is how the intelligence community operates. He is a prime example of the kind of privileged, unwitting stooge the IC grooms to promote its ideology through journalism.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I don't undwrstand what the basement has to do and no idea if the friend is a him or a her goddamit

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Matt Yglesias' entire life has been a vast Truman Show-esque illusion puppeteered by CIA operatives and everyday he comically stumbles onto clues that this is true but never connects the dots.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Doesn't the CIA simply take orders from big companies?

    All the CIA is good for is arming right wing terrorists and pretending to be good at spying.

    It's more likely the SEC guy is with the SEC and is simply traveling to take bribe money.

    I mean come on, the CIA is dumb as shit. There is no way they could have predicted anyone would read Matty on Twitter. They couldn't even manage to kill Castro!

    The NSA on the other hand..

    • MorphoTheMagnificent [undecided]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Doesn’t the CIA simply take orders from big companies?

      Pretty sure it's a two way street, bud...also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird

      the CIA is dumb as shit.

      Correct, this is why they like Matthew Yglesias so much.