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USA’s presidents have all been awful humans (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I know you want to imagine something darker, but once you get your first job you'll realize how very very very very easy it is for simple things to slip through the cracks, let alone complex things like a conflict on the other side of the planet from you in a region your country hasn't traditionally cared about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And that in itself is a reason why the intelligence community cannot be allowed to exist in its current form.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What is? That humans are fallible?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That it's trivially easy for them to just casually decide to do a genocide with no input or oversight from any democratic process that could hold them accountable or allow the people to actually control what our foreign policy is.