They do something like this with Creation Club in Fallout 4. The last thing people still playing want is more updates that break all of our mods every few months to add crap we didn’t ask for. Check out the Steam updates, every one of them has countless comments begging them to stop. I gave up a while ago but I’m sure they’re still going.

Sure, I agree that it’s definitely reasonable to make those assumptions and that they were almost certainly involved. I’m definitely not arguing with any of that, just the presentation here. I’m not saying there wasn’t evidence, I was genuinely asking because the picture was (intentionally) stripped of any possible context so that we could all feel clever and smug without having to think about anything. Thank you for giving some more history, in any case.

All I was asking is if there was evidence or not. What we have here is a screenshot of a part of an article with no context which appears to contradict itself that people are circlejerking over. The fact that it happened doesn’t prove that Maduro was right (or wrong) all along. I just take issue with this “meme” being posted as some gotcha crap when it’s deliberately excluding any actual information.

Was there evidence? Honestly asking.

Something being a reasonably safe bet isn’t evidence, and neither is the CIA having done this before. Years of paranoid delusions (or less generously, lying) isn’t suddenly justified if something finally happens. If there was actual evidence of them doing it sure, but this picture on its own isn’t a gotcha, it’s some “Alex Jones is right 95% of the time” kind of shit.

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said in a recent interview that his agency intended to probe anti-fascist and anti-ICE protesters and those that support them. “We are going to track the money. We are going to track these ringleaders.” He went on to claim, without evidence, that many of the protesters in Chicago were “professional agitators that are being brought in.”

Why bother, just listen to any right wing political commentator over the last 10 years, it’s all George Soros right?

Anyone who celebrates anything that isn’t relevant to me personally is an idiot.