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Seriously though, the USA is virtually always bad.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Remembering when the CIA set up a fake humanitarian vaccine program in Pakistan to steal DNA from people to find bin Laden. They didn't even actually fulfill the vaccine part, either.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Whoa there, better make sure we don't accidentally do some good here!

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's so goddamn hilariously cartoonish.

How much more would it have cost to ACTUALLY vaccinate people at the same fucking time lmao?

They hate Pakistan so much they can't even bring themselves to do incidental good

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was probably some rationale where actually vaccinating people would have meant involving other departments or some shit and they didn’t want to risk blowing their op. Basically the evil is baked into the system, it’s not some cartoon villain. IMO this is so much worse than some evil cia director who’s goal it is to fuck up pakistan.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

"It was too much paperwork to save lives for free!" is the most American thing I've heard. Only to be surpassed by whatever terrible fact I learn tomorrow.

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