We are not in a court of law, we are disempowered capitalist subjects living in the imperial core and constantly force-fed propaganda. Your demand for hard concrete evidence despite all of the constant patterns around you is a ridiculous way of navigating the world.
All of these things were known long after they were true. The evidence of immediate things is simply not accessible. We have to rely on patterns and on the known facts about strategies, tactics, capabilities, and laws of motion.
u/FaustTheBird - originally from r/GenZhou
We are not in a court of law, we are disempowered capitalist subjects living in the imperial core and constantly force-fed propaganda. Your demand for hard concrete evidence despite all of the constant patterns around you is a ridiculous way of navigating the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip (protection of Nazis)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States#Sterilization_of_Latina_women (sterilization of non-white women through the 1970s)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes (spying on citizens and sharing the information with allies to evade posse comitatus)
https://theweek.com/speedreads/835854/john-bolton-says-monroe-doctrine-alive-well-history-shows-why-thats-controversial-statement (The Monroe Doctrine is alive and well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_squad#United_States (Death squads used by the US)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_warfare#United_States (publicly known and filtered biowar programs)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries (yellow cake lie)
All of these things were known long after they were true. The evidence of immediate things is simply not accessible. We have to rely on patterns and on the known facts about strategies, tactics, capabilities, and laws of motion.