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A Boring Dystopia
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We might be wise to see the real headline here: American intelligence is getting... stupid. As more resources get poured into near-literal witch hunts, wildly unreliable tools become routinely abused, competent staff continues getting cut, and some absolute dipshits keep filling decision making roles, the ability to keep some pretty intense existential threat vectors at bay looks to be getting very uncomfortably diminished. I'm no fan of the American intelligence community myself, nor of any state in general anyway, but we might want to consider the consequences for all of us if a generally competent intelligence community protecting a state with an apocalyptic amount of nuclear weapons starts getting... stupid. I'm worried enough about the instability in Russia and Putin's growing paranoia.
The dipshits making decisions are there partly because of the easily deceived dipshits who vote for them, but even moreso because they are willing puppets of the ruling class. The primary process and unlimited outside spending weeds out the less corrupt before they get too close to the levers of power.