LOL “instead”…no, bby. Not instead.
He’s incredibly dumb. It’s like if reddit was a rich Harvard failson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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…
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.
