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Comment by pasc1878

3 days ago

But part of Agency has just been defunded

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for...

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  • > very explicitly stated goals of sowing discord within the US's former "allies", to weaken Europe, and to promote racist and fringe-right views.

    The US government explicitly said that they seek to promote racist and fringe-right views? Do you have any sort of evidence to back it up?

  • This is fine. If successful, the next administration can just leverage it for a different kind of agenda. In fact, by the time we know whether it's successful, this admin will likely be gone. I'm a bit conflicted though. I hated the last admin's censorship efforts for wrong think. Now, looking at the online discourse landscape, I'm starting to think we might have thrown out the baby with the birth water. Why can't we just be normal!