[scaramanga]

That's nothing, wait until you find out that the Japanese LDP was founded by class A nazi war criminals that the US released from prison :)

If you think it's shocking that the US works with fascists, it can only because you know nothing at all about US foreign policy and how it works.

The idea that it's "off the rails" rather than something that repeats so ofte it's not even interesting is _buck wild_ :)

[areoform]

I try to look towards the better angels of everyone’s nature. Being jaded and cynical rarely solves problems.

[giraffe_lady]

"The CIA can't seem to stop itself from training and supporting fascist movements" is actually a useful pattern to notice if the problem you're trying to solve is "where do these fascist movements keep coming from??"

Considering that cynical is a judgment that I don't think is very useful here. It also assumes there is some valid, correct, non-cynical view of the CIA that assumes they don't do this. Which is fantastical, at least as useless a way to approach the world as cynicism.

[scaramanga]

Optimism of spirit, pessimism of the intellect.

Living in a dream world not only fails to solve problems, but I have noticed, tends to perpetuate them.

[hulitu]

As they say: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...