Funnily enough they don’t trust the CIA when its report are unconvenient for them, for example like the one when CIA states that communism is when food.
It’s super revealing how selective these people are.
Just yesterday someone on reddit linked to a super long statistical and literature analysis meant to show that actually the CIA report on USSR food/calorie availability is completely misleading if not simply incorrect.
Certainly the analysis was scientific and well-sourced rather than stemming directly from a single unnamed Czech guy whose grandfather ate puppies and had a matching BFF necklace with Hitler, right?
Ah, maybe giving too much credit. I’d wager it was some shoddily plastered together hitpiece written by some amateur historian wehraboo teenagers passed off as peer-reviewed. That or a collection of Wikipedia articles, though there’s not much of a meaningful difference there.
Amateur historian wehraboo probably hits the mark. It’s some smug anonymous asshole who does “scientific investigations” on mostly tech libertarian topics. He wrote a whole series on the economic history of the USSR, another on how publicly funded R&D isn’t all that, and a libertarian take on women in STEM fields (they’re just not interested in those jobs guys). In a subsequent breath he says he doesn’t engage with political issues too much. Ok buddy. His USSR bit got picked up by the Adam Smith Institute and his blog got a grant from a Peter Thiel associated “research center.”
Trust evidence that is difficult to falsify. Trust any institution to cover its ass when it fucks up. Trust pigs to protect fascists most of the time. Trust liberals to blame the left and concede to the right.
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