Interested in the history and the social programs they created like free breakfast.

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    And the CIA pumped a load of heroin into the inner cities to pacify the urban black population as part of their financing of various undeclared wars in the South-East Asian conflict.

    Decades later a similar thing would happen with crack cocaine as part of the anti-Sandinista action.

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      10 months ago

      I dislike how this narrative completely bypasses the power hungry, money hungey gangsters who were perfectly fine making money off the backs of their communities.

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        10 months ago

        I dislike how this comment is deliberately vague as to who you’re talking about.

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          Lol. The people selling it to their local communities are just as bad as the people at the top. The people at the top are many times from the local communities you guys are defending.