• Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
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      The original statement was:

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

      I took issue with that stance. It doesn’t matter whether or not Euromaidan was a coup to do that.

      Condoning CIA coups if “the people” wanted it basically gives the CIA carte blanche to coup whoever they want, as long as they manufacture consent enough.

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        You talked about a coup by the CIA. They’re talking about CIA helping. Two different things. Like you said, we don’t know the extent of their involvement

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          So it’s also ok to condone the FBI murdering people if we don’t know that the FBI killed MLK?

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              They said that it would have been ok if they helped. That conditional statement doesn’t depend on whether or not they did intervene.

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