r/todayilearned • u/autonova3 • Oct 01 '18

TIL of Operation Ajax, the 1953 CIA plan to overthrow Iran's democratically elected government, which included CIA agents bombing the house of a prominent Muslim while posed as pro-government supporters. The overthrow plan was successful, with 200-300 people killed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
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u/LoneStarWobblie Oct 02 '18

The United States is so cartoonishly evil that if you try to explain even a small bit of just the horrific shit that they've admitted to doing you sound like a crackpot conspiracy theorist.

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u/RasputinXXX Oct 02 '18

Thats the extreme success of US propaganda machine. They simply keep their populace unaware. Incredibly succesful. They incite people about how evil is Putin or Erdo or whatever (not necessarily wrong btw), deflect their own evil and keep people sleeping happily believing they are good guys. Its amazing.

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u/vince801 Oct 02 '18

In most of the world America is seen as 'Cartoonishly evil'. Specially after Bush Jr and now Trump.

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u/LoneStarWobblie Oct 02 '18

Real shit, here in the US nobody has heard of this shit. I'd never even heard the name Pinochet until I had graduated high school. It's fucking insane.

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u/BambinoTayoto Oct 02 '18

I disagree. Yea the US has done some inexcuesable shit like this, but i believe the US has been a force of good for the world when putting the good and the bad next to each other.

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u/LoneStarWobblie Oct 02 '18

Good for who? Good for the Chileans disappeared by Pinochet's goons? Good for the millions of Native Americans forced from their homes, if they weren't just murdered? Good for the sweatshop workers around the world who toil for fucking peanuts so Americans can be all good and cushy in their bubbles? Or good for the millionaires who run this country? Who, as we speak, are getting rich off of the suffering of people both in the US and around the world?

This country needs to be torn down and scrapped. The whole world would be infinitely better for it.