Because let's get rid of anything our government did that was somehow good. It's been awesome having the fascists destroy anything and everything that is helpful.
Saying the World Factbook was the one good thing the CIA ever did feels like all the folks over in the /r/neoliberal sub on Reddit compulsively shouting "PEPFAR!" every time Bush 43's name is mentioned.
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some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 85 pts · 201d
Because let's get rid of anything our government did that was somehow good. It's been awesome having the fascists destroy anything and everything that is helpful.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 27 pts · 201d
that's what fascists do. successful things are a threat to fascism
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 19 pts · 201d
Especially facts. Surprised this stayed up as long as it did.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 58 pts · 201d
Shitty, that was one of the coolest publicly known things that they ever did.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 201d
Even shittier, TIL about it.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 200d
Saying the World Factbook was the one good thing the CIA ever did feels like all the folks over in the /r/neoliberal sub on Reddit compulsively shouting "PEPFAR!" every time Bush 43's name is mentioned.
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 4 pts · 200d
Not even what I said, but OK.
HailSeitan@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 201d
Can a mirror be hosted somewhere, since it’s in the public domain?
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 201d
Probably got captured on the internet archive, someone just needs to make a good compressed repack like Wikipedia does.
radix@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 201d
Not my site, but credit where it's due: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/
Up through 2020 is at the archive, and this guy uploaded that latest version to github as well.
Edit: through 2020 is at the archive as zip downloads. 2021 through 2024 is available as their normal wayback archive for browsing.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
FYI this guy is an internet treasure.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 200d
Should be added to Kiwix
eah@programming.dev · 1 pts · 200d
They're probably "on it", as the expression goes.
Paragone@piefed.social · 20 pts · 201d
Factchecking isn't tolerated, in ideological-regimes.
Left or right, or religious/fundamentalist ( fundamentalist-antitheism is a religion too, mr. Dawkins ).
To be expected.
ALL hard-reference information sources will be extinguished, systematically, as this process progresses.
When ONLY ideology remains, THEN rampaging & reacting can be the "law".
The escalation will continue,
as I've been trying to warn people.
Prep, if you want.
Tippingpoint should happen after mid-Feb, not before.
Then NO civilrights will remain, only totalitarian .. mess.
Civil War Part2.
_ /\ _
edgemaster72@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 201d
Soon to be replaced by Dear Leader's World Feelsbook, which will be immediately outdated if ever printed
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
Coming Soon: The World Alternative Facts Book!
manxu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 201d
Isn't that just a rebranded Conservapedia? 🧐
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
Fakts.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 201d
The word "Fact" is woke.
vector42@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 200d
Well, shit. I always used this as a trustworthy data information for my students.
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 200d
Shit, I wonder what they'll do with the NORAD Santa tracker, nothing good for sure.
regdog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
[Laughs in Orwell]: America has always been at war with facts
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 200d
It never occured to me that the Central Intelligence Agency would ever share any of it with public. Interesting!
piecat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 200d
From a time when a government was a service