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    • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      There's that narrative that every new President is shown classified info and the Alphabet Agency threatens them - this was converted into an "excuse for inaction" in Obama's case: I have heard people use this as an explanation as to why Obama was a neolib ghoul.

      EDIT: As in "he couldn't dismatle the Bush II Admin's security state because they would have killed him." Honestly, it rings true, but Obama's poser Goth-Girl thristy-ness says otherwise (revealed in his biography). As in, he's always been an opportunist/realpolitik brain.

      • pooh [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        This might sound like tinfoil hat stuff but based on what I’ve read it seems like his mother may have been a CIA agent in Indonesia. If you dig into this a bit, you find some interesting info, like the fact that Obama’s mother worked for Tim Geithner’s father in the early 1980s under the Ford Foundation. If this is true, it means Obama was basically raised in the national security state.

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          A CIA agent in Indonesia assisting with the Indonesian Genocide

          • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Yep.

            EDIT: The Jakarta Method - everybody check it out.

        • MerryChristmas [any]
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          3 years ago

          I know I sound like a loon every single time, but I tell everyone I can about this. It's so weird how rarely it's discussed.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        EDIT: As in “he couldn’t dismatle the Bush II Admin’s security state because they would have killed him.”

        If anyone ever got in that actually wanted to do this it would be a person willing to die to try to make it happen.

        • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          In my AOC-Fantasy I have imagined that Obama was simultaneously too valuable to assassinate and too ineffectual to fight it.

        • raven [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Would they be able to set up some sort of dead man switch that releases tons of damming info to every news org as protection?