Oddbean new post about login | logout CIA is on Nostr. As @Mike Dilger brought to my attention, the CIA just started using Nostr for propaganda to legitimatize their coups. If you are unfamiliar with the worldlibertycongress.org it's a Washington DC bullshit front to legitimize the overthrow of any dictator the empire wants out. (Iran, Venezuela, ect.) What will be different about this over Twitter, is this time, they can't get our side removed.
If people are trapped under an oppressive regime and want freedom, and a NGO "assists" them in protesting and toppling their government in order to become more democratic and more free, isn't that what we all should want? This conception of the whole business is hard to argue against, and I feel like I need to get my head straight about it because I do infact believe in freedom and I don't want people trapped in oppressive regimes and I do think soft power of free speech and convincing people is the better form of power. But in practical terms it seems to have been used for power plays, for resources (originally for oil, maybe always for oil?), not to actually better peoples lives. I think people need to better their own lives from the ground up using freedom tech like bitcoin and nostr and tor.
That actually might just be some joker. I took it seriously because of how others responded to it. I have no idea. ... the CIA already has my head swimming 🤣
Some of their members are political dissidents with real skin in the game, perhaps more so than anyone here One would hope we could debate ideas instead of labels
when they post ideas, we'll debate ideas
Kicking things off with an insult isn't how to encourage debate of ideas Now they have "cIa" comment spam in their threads, good for my block list not much else Hopefully they will ignore the noise and stick around