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Corruption

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tardersos@reddit

Based, but people here are focusing too much on Nixon here. The CIA acts in the interests of capitalism, and it's noticeable. My favorite example is 1950s Guatemala; they had a socialist president that was doing good for the country. His policies damaged an American fruit brand, which lobbied the government to remove him from office. The CIA overthrew Jacobo Arbenz and replaced him with a dictator, which launched the country into a 40 year civil war in which an estimated 200k lives were lost. Because of a fucking fruit company with too much money.
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djlatigo@reddit

Ya superen a Arbenz; por favor ¬¬
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ClF3ismyspiritanimal@reddit

>The CIA "Our Motto: Proudly Assassinating Fidel Castro, 1959-2016"
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tomtheconqerur@reddit

People should fear the government, it should be the other way around.
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Ok_Implement_555@reddit

Why do governments all over the world try so hard to disarm their citizens?
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Spice002@reddit

An armed citizen is a disobedient citizen, and a disobedient citizen is a free citizen.
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tomtheconqerur@reddit

because governments are gay.
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magnuman307@reddit

Amputee fetish.
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Brasil1126@reddit

the president has done worse before Nixon
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orangutanDOTorg@reddit

Aroooo!
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tennessee_jedi@reddit

Lol comical misunderstanding of Nixon here, his motivations, and those of the “monied interests”. Ol dick was a sleazy striver, but he actually stood up to the CIA (telling dick helms he didn’t want to have to get into that “whole bay of pigs thing” aka the jfk hit), and that pretty much ended him.  Highly suggest reading Rick perlstein, Carl oglesby, peter dale scott, etc. if anyone’s interested. Notably got replaced by Gerald ford (on the Warren commission w/ Dulles), followed by Carter (who gave us Paul volker & Zbigniew Brzezinski) - the ford/carter admins ushered in the neoliberal turn; and then of course the Reagan / bush / Cheney / Rumsfeld cabal cemented it. This well’s a lot deeper than you think. 
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NetStaIker@reddit

Fr, but this is what happens when people think they can talk about history in a serious manner when their only education is playing Paradox games (they don’t understand how Hitler lost, just paradrop onto London lmao)
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UndeadRabbi@reddit

You spent 4+ years at a Uni for elitist education but you're too stupid to realize the fucking reddit comments section of r/greentext probably isn't the place to write an essay about the importance of higher education. Your Int score might be high, but your wisdom and charisma are pretty shitty bro.
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demonotreme@reddit

Pure nonsense, Nixon did plenty of things that were for America
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Internal_Day8004@reddit

The pre vs post WW2 difference as simply as I can imagine it is that the mid to late 20th century saw the birth of the American political empire and it's status as the de facto hegemon of the West/First World. And Empires, no matter the founding doctrine, always tend to devolve into the political chaos of empires, you can't have that much power concentrated within a government and sphere of influence without the development of controlling interests, factionalist autocratic systems, and market oligopolies. Tyranny and elite stratification is effectively a constant along with the diminishment of any form of democratic popular agency.
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TheeScribe2@reddit

>previous presidents were great >Nixon and every president after was corrupt and self-serving This only works when you ignore all of the corrupt and self-serving presidents before Nixon
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NetStaIker@reddit

Warren G Harding be like: ???
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torolf_212@reddit

And the normal presidents afterwards
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EncyclicalUnderpass@reddit

"No no guys, the billionaires giving politicians money to ignore the actual concerns of their constituents is free speech! It's totally not corruption."
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AaduTHOMA72@reddit

And here I'm in the comments section, to hear the opinions and counter points of the experts. https://preview.redd.it/nglyled8u6of1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3bbd020833eb32c94777dfcf353bb43e6af7e4fa
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ParticularConcept548@reddit

Don't worry trump gonna fix it and make america great again
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Visccas@reddit

Eu não esperava ver o Globo Repórter por aqui
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Futureman999@reddit

I thought Jackson was famous for reallocating surplus Indians from Georgia to Indian-starved Oklahoma [by the most economical means possible](https://i.imgur.com/ENvxe6t.png)
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CornginaFlegemark@reddit

Nixon was highly exceptional in his behavior but not for any of this abject nonsense about the supposed purity of the white house, which in truth had been marred with varying levels of controversy for almost a century. The true unique aspect of Nixon wasn't that he was corrupt, its that he was a political realist. Many gamed the system, but only really to further their own personal desires, with the actual political world remaining bogged into idealism, but Nixon was a cold hearted strategist of a kind rarely seen in america who actually used his corruption to get things done. Reagan may have been in power during iran-contra but its people like Nixon who really run things
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dirschau@reddit

McCarthyism was one hell of a drug
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I_am_Reptoid_King@reddit

Idk man...G Gordon Liddy was pretty based.
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ReturnRadio@reddit

People give Nixon way too much credit. He wasn't the first president to break the law, he was just the first one where he got caught in a major way by the public.
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captaincw_4010@reddit

Ford pardoning Nixon and it's consequences folks
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Bigwilliam360@reddit

The whitewashing of Nixon in the public consciousness is utterly unforgivable. What he and his team of goons did should be more well known and taught more prominently, but it isn’t and it never will be.
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champagne_papaya@reddit

It was a mistake and terrible precedent, but not the cause. It’s like trump pardoning most of his cabinet and family in his first term. It was bad, but hardly stands out compared to everything else his admin did, basically par for the course
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