What if we find out one day, it was all an organized game, to screw over the citizens?

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’d say defense is one exception. That’s a huge budget with black money that disappears precisely for secret projects. It it still a secret secret if we know they’re using it to make secret things, but we just don’t know what they are yet?

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      4 months ago

      I’d argue yes. And it’s still a combination of “exceedingly competent and yes still incompetent in other ways”. The intelligence is here, to paraphrase William Gibson, it’s just unevenly distributed