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[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Taking fewer risks because you feel less secure is the most basic idea. You ever walked carefully on ice? Driven slower because of bad weather? Thought twice before writing an answer on an important test? Engaged in banal small talk because your boss is talking to you? Checked for your keys before locking a door? Mistrusted a fart because you've been shidding out of your doodoo ass from a gas station burrito?

Congratulations. You used your brain instead of "getting gud."

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A lot of sanctioned countries also don’t overthrow their governments like the US hopes for because desperation doesn’t always look like someone picking up a gun and going to war for epic democracy. Sometimes that desperation is just keeping your head down to receive the next meal.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Obviously the answer is to increase sanctions and fund right wing terrorism. Eventually the people will get desperate enough to do what the CIA wants.

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A flow chart where all the paths lead to a box that says “more fascism”

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

It's like one of those "recycling here, trash here" cans with nothing dividing the actual contents but it's money going to the fascism pile