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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just entertained you're spending more time arguing than me than searching out a counter to your own argument. I do my research on both sides of an issue before sharing my opinion. You're just hiding behind a few links and foaming at the mouth that I haven't shared any links. Maybe if I'm bored this weekend I'll go through my KMS and find some citations for you since this isn't the common sense I thought it was.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They aren't hiding though, you just keep saying how you write papers and make all these claims then barely back them up. I'm considerably more convinced of their argument than yours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I cannot conceive of how someone would find their ad-copy arguments convincing compared to the citations offered throughout the thread by others, myself included. Nonetheless, here's another [PDF], and another but again I want to point out that their arguments are worthless, so the sources are beside the point. Do people really believe again that the US was broadcasting to "combat Soviet disinformation" in the Cold War rather than merely promote its own agenda, including its own disinformation, along with casting doubt on whatever inconvenient things were said by the Soviets, accurate or not? Have we fallen back into such a pathetic level of naivety about US institutions because Trump's garishness made Democrats rally around the flag? Come on. It's literally openly an arm of US diplomacy and publishes "editorials" that are point-for-point the State Department line on any given topic, which makes sense because it's literally part of the State Department!