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.world and .ee admin teams are actually secretly financed by some shadowy organization 👀! (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

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Source: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005/18409840

MrKaplan must be absolutely rolling in the dough!/S

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[–] Panamalt@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 weeks ago

Little thing known as burden of proof says you actually have to back up your claims with evidence if you want to be right. The sealions are just a bullshit excuse to whine when your asshole has more to say than your mouth.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

[They've] got Google to prioritize search results for them;

We all know that Sundar Pichai wakes up first thing in the morning thinking "what do lemmy.world and lemm.ee admins want me to do today?"

these come from observations

"I can tell by the pixels!"

[–] Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, I get your point, but you can pay for an ad that looks just like a google search result to be on the top of certain searches. This will often result in the ad link being the top result in the actual rankings. This is usually what people mean when they shit like this, and paying to be at the top of google search results.

[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.bascul.in 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

as the instance owner of lemmy.bascul.in, can confirm I'm also being financed by a shadowy organization. Unlike the fools on .world and .ee who hide it, my instance is the first to openly declare ownership by a dark evil space overlord.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

dark evil space overlord.

I would like to pledge allegiance to the dark evil space overlord, it's got to be much more fun than the chucklefucks we have on earth lol

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You already did when you made an account on lemmy.world

Its hidden on legal.lemmy.world

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, the terms change during full moon

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

The craziest part of this is "got Google to prioritize." Honey, SEO is a big-boy industry, and absolutely nobody on Lemmy plays in that league.

LW was the largest instance accepting new accounts when Reddit shit the bed.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't even know what to say to this.

At first I thought this was a shitpost/satire or something, but no, the individual does seem genuine.

It's no wonder tankies are what they are when this is the level of intellectual capacity and dogmatic thinking that you find on ML and the other tankie instances.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 14 points 2 weeks ago

Are the tankies upset that their open platform is open and thus allows people they disagree with to say things they don't like.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

We have lists of other Lemmy users? Can I see that list?

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am so confused.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone is alleging the volunteer admins of Lemm.ee and Lemmy.world are secretly funded by some shadowy organization. All without anything to back it up of course.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 9 hours ago

The secret shadowy organisation is the people donating.

ffs, lemm.ee literally donates to the lemmy project.

[–] anas@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Someone learned a new word!

[+] Kaboom@reddthat.com -28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Tbh, this is exactly the kind of nonsense USAID would fund. They got caught funding even dumber things. And false flags, honey traps, shills, etc, they all exist.

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is satire, right?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

It's Kaboom, no, no it's not

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, all that tuberculosis treatment and prevention, emergency food aid, and vaccine work was all just a clever front for their real plan to take over niche social media platforms! How could we have been so blind?! 🙄

[+] Kaboom@reddthat.com -13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They weren't an aid agency. They were the United States Agency for International Development and they funded things like musicals.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an agency of the United States government that has been responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance." Wikipedia

And I know this because my dad was the Assistant Administrator of USAID under Clinton. Their funding fell into the following general categories and funding levels:

But please continue with your wildly inaccurate statements by all means.

[+] barsoap@lemm.ee -6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you read on, you'll see plenty of examples of it being a CIA front. Kinda tip of the iceberg but I figured it's your source, you'll respect it when I quote it.

I mean one does not, on the face of it, expect an aid organisation to train foreign police in torture techniques, does one? Work towards overthrowing legitimate foreign governments?

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every part of the government (and tons of NGOs) got used as CIA fronts at various times. However, the preponderance of money spent has been humanitarian aid that has quite literally saved millions of lives. Saying it isn't an aid organization is ridiculous. Sounds like your problem is (justifiably) with the CIA and not USAID. It was never perfect but there are plenty of people alive today because of the work it's funded.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"Got used" would be one thing, and not indict the whole organisation, there being a revolving door between CIA and USAID is a completely different one. And the critique doesn't end with the CIA, of course, USAID had no qualms stopping aid programmes when foreign government voted the wrong way in the UN. Following orders from the rest of the administration? Of course. It's impossible for the US administration to actually have an actual aid organisation, the US is too self-serving, doesn't understand the concept of charity.

What you're doing is tantamount to saying that the army logistics corps is not part of the military. Plenty of Iraqis are alive right now because of that logistics corps. Sounds weird? It should.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You do know the USAID's budget is public and directed by Congress, not the CIA - right? And that they don't send out folks directly but fund charities and NGOs to meet certain goals. In 2023 they spent $43.4 billion over 130 countries with $30 billion of that going to Ukraine. NGOs account for 52% of what they spent and among public international organizations almost all of the money spent goes to the World Food Program and the World Bank.

Current estimates on the effects of cutting USAID funding are one million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.

But sure "CIA front" sounds so plausible.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And that they don’t send out folks directly but fund charities and NGOs to meet certain goals.

Like "HIV Prevention workshops" that are actually regime change ops. Like funneling aid for Haiti to the chaps. Why give money to the Haitian government or construction companies when you can hire a US one which takes the money and has a record of leaving its projects unfinished?

Tip of the fucking iceberg. USAIDs main business was foreign interference, advancement of neoliberal policies, and legalised corruption. Maybe the reason state building failed in Afghanistan is because you left it to clowns with gilded noses.

...it's also, yes, occasionally doing good things. Like help bring down apartheid in South Africa. Which is why Musk hates it which is why it got the axe once Musk had one to swing. It's one of those plotlines that, in a movie, would be considered to be too far-fetched.

Current estimates on the effects of cutting USAID funding are one million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.

Go fund the World Food Programme and the Word Health Organisation, instead. Go pay your fucking UN dues. Don't stand there and declare your self-interest and corruption to be the world's saviour when saving people is, at best, an afterthought. Usually it's a fig leaf, something to bleed liberal hearts with. Seems to be working with you, at least.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

USAID is more known to fund weapons to topple governments abroad and file it under funds for sex reasignment surgeries in Guatemala.

It's always been a not even thinly veiled CIA front and it's prime comedy that the thing was axed by the Trump administration of all people. Probably because occasionally they actually do good things, in particular they had their hand in ending Apartheid in South Africa which Musk of course hates them for.

Still was funny to see how the US left went from "USAID evil" to "but won't someone think of the starving kids". That's generally UN programmes, not USAID.