subgenius wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 3:11 pm
Gunnar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 17, 2020 6:22 am
Please see the charts and graphs in the article that illustrate the alarming trends. I forgot how to paste them into a blog post on this forum. :redface:
Set aside the fact that Vox is a liberal rag, and we have to admit that Freedom House isn't a watchdog, it's a think tank and most likely a CIA contractor.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., it has field offices in about a dozen countries, including Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, Jordan, Mexico, and also countries in Central Asia.
Check their resume bruh.
Yes, I understand. Everything you disagree with must be liberal. Reality itself is incorrigibly liberal. Sucks, doesn't it? The Freedom House report is only documenting and amplifying trends that I already saw happening, to my great despair. That you still can't see that is an indication of your own blindness and your unwillingness or inability to care.
This is an argument against the group’s own interest. Roughly 85 percent of Freedom House’s annual revenue comes from federal grants, per a 2016 audit report. If a vindictive Trump or his allies in Congress went after the organization, the consequences for its bottom line could be dire.
They are literally risking their own existence and funding by sounding this warning! This, to me, is a credible indication of their integrity and genuine concern. They are not just in it for financial gain, power or their own security!
Of course they have field offices in numerous other countries! How else can they gather the evidence and documentation they need to be an effective and credible watchdog? And if they are a contractor to the CIA, as you allege, how does that necessarily make them suspect? Don't you think data collected by them or anyone else about anti-democratic, despotic trends would be a legitimate concern of our primary intelligence service? Do you buy into Trump's paranoid conspiracy notions about our own intelligence agencies are merely part of "The Deep State" out to get Trump?
That you still can't see what a corrupt, dishonest load of excrement Trump and his sycophantic cronies are is astounding to me!