It doesn’t predate the nsa, but the Cia contracted out the work through a Canadian firm iirc.

The nsa doesn’t have the mandate for clandestine activities, only reconnaissance.

The modern trend of people from the former East Germany supporting AfD probably has more to do with the interceding decades of liberal rule,

Which West Germany didn’t face?

combined with the region’s historic relative poverty (which preceded even the Nazis).

Western Germany was more industrialized, because of 2 reasons: 1: access to coal and metal in the Ruhr, 2: Access to trade with Europe.

The former is just natural, the latter is more of that “librul witchcraft” of globalization.

The only difference between the two otherwise is that the Soviets brutalized the East, and that left a legacy of uneducated poverty.

https://direct.mit.edu/jinh/article-abstract/52/2/225/107152/Occupation-Reparations-and-Rebellion-The-Soviets?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Basically the Soviets took an impoverished land and squeezed as hard as they could.

Oh, and you’re right there were no camps in East Germany, those camps were in the USSR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labor_of_Germans_in_the_Soviet_Union

It really is, except for East Germany, which got rid of their Nazi trash and replaced them with Soviet trash, which, just like Russia has, swerved them hard nazi again.

They lived in the entire US, particularly the south, as did millions of slaves who suffered centuries of genocidal brutality and worse.

And as a non-white American , you are infinitely full of shit.

I’ve lived in most of the country, I have NEVER experienced such utter and brutal racism as in the vile, depraved south.

This is because after the civil war we let the slaver class live in the south, and they just took over as soon as our back was turned.

Worst decision in this country’s history, we would be so much greater of a nation if we’d simply dealt with the problem then instead of letting their filth fester and spread. Notice how Germany is a good country nowadays while the south is still as worthless as ever.

Indiana had racism, but comparing it to the south is like comparing a sneeze and ebola.

I lived in the Midwest, it’s nothing like that.

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

The south literally fought a war (Texas fought 2) to preserve their practices of slavery and genocide.

The Midwest fought, killed, and died to stop them.

Illiterate too, Hitler wrote of Jim Crow as a model for Germany in Mein Kampf.

Hitler spoke about the American south and Jim Crow with reverence, he thought it should be a model for German racist policies.

This was something he wrote about in Mein Kampf.

God damnit Boeing, stick to your F-15ex, don’t fuck up something that actually works!!!

Got banned for saying Russia was committing war crimes in Ukraine.

As a comment to a AP story showing evidence of Russians committing war crimes in Ukraine.

Apparently that was ‘bigotry’.

This was 2 weeks after getting banned for threatening violence. For posting a NBC news article reporting on the Trump shooting. They reversed that on appeal, but I’m not appealing the second one, they’re just broken now.

Basically anyone can report anything and they don’t have anyone to review it so it’s easy censorship. Yet somehow the subs that actually threaten violence have no problems.

There’s a reason you can’t upgrade the .50 cal automatic pipe-revolver rifle till you’ve got science and gunsmithing.