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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 58 points 4 days ago (3 children)

So which agency is going to be doing something about it?

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Militias are mostly made up of police, FBI and CIA members, so no agency is going to interfere.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Local police, maybe. The other two have task forces that regularly take these clowns down, so if there are some mixed into the group, they're really fucking bad at their jobs.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The worst thing the CIA does is hookers and blow. They're not looking to get caught up in a right-wing coup.

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You dropped the /s, you are describing the number one cause of regime change globally in the last hundred years.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

My bad. I meant here. They're not trying to start shit in the US.

I do think they've mostly stopped in the last 40 though.

[–] basmati@lemmus.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe, they did sell crack domestically just forty years ago, and no one really knows where the fentanyl crisis got most of its start, or who manufactures the majority of the supply.

[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

we know exactly where the fentanyl crisis got its start: Over prescription and aggressive marketing of opioid painkillers by the pharma industry. And we know exactly where most of the fentanyl is manufactured: China.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Fun fact, we know how it gets into the states.

The fentanyl, or the precursor chemicals are shipped to Mexico, and then white Americans drive across the border and pick up one or two brick sized packages that then sell for millions.

The packages are easy to hide, and racist border control doesn't search the white guy crossing the border with nearly as much enthusiasm as they do the brown guys crossing the same border.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The CIA focuses on international, uhh... "activities". If you want their domestic counterpart, you want the NSA.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

While there are a somewhat decent amount of police, the vast majority of people in these militias are middle management, to low level office workers, blue collar workers, and service workers.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

NSA - no such agency

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

RTFA - far-right militias are. And they're doing a bang up job.