Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests
Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests
Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’
Andrew McCabe says Trump-Putin interactions ‘raise questions’, as Harris says Putin would eat Trump ‘for lunch’
Donald Trump can be seen as a Russian asset, though not in the traditional sense of an active agent or a recruited resource, an ex-FBI deputy director who worked under the former US president said.
Asked on a podcast if he thought it possible Trump was a Russian asset, Andrew McCabe, who Trump fired as FBI deputy director in 2018, said: “I do, I do.”
He added: “I don’t know that I would characterize it as [an] active, recruited, knowing asset in the way that people in the intelligence community think of that term. But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the United States, and I think his approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face-to-face meetings, the things that he has said in public about Putin, all raise significant questions.”
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Speaking to One Decision, McCabe said: “You have to have some very serious questions about, why is it that Donald Trump … has this fawning sort of admiration for Vladimir Putin in a way that no other American president, Republican or Democrat, ever has.
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Stalin used to use the term 'useful idiots' for Westerners who would help advance his interests. Sometimes they were sincere progressives who thought that Stalin was a trusted ally, and others were blatant opportunists.
Or as Khrushchev said, 'when the time comes to hang the West an American businessman will sell us the rope.'
Kruschev didn't say that
Yup. A variation of the quote (basically capitalists instead of American businessmen) is commonly attributed to Lenin instead of Khrushchev. But that, too, can't be verified and is said to be fake.
yeap pretty sure that was Lenin, lmao
Lenin never said it either
It was Buddha actually.
That's my favorite part of the movie, Krishna is in the office about to gun down Jesus, when Buddha kicks down the door and is like "Life is suffering, prepare to live!" And then shoots all the mobsters with a drum loaded Thompson machine gun, before killing Krishna and saving Jesus. And then the sex scene is so passionate
You either reply with contact details of your dealer or a magnet link to this movie.
Ohio is my dealer
tl, dr = A distant space colony has been turned into a combination brothel/game preserve by the crew of the ship that brought the inhabitants ancestors there. Using tech the crew has made themselves into the gods of the Hindu pantheon. Kali, Shiva, Agni, et al reincarnate themselves every few years and keep the mortals at the Bronze Age. One member of the crew decides enough is enough and becomes the Buddha in order to overthrow the old gods.
I'll bite, that sounds rad
Enjoy
I thought I read it in an Oscar Wilde book.
I feel like it's the case for most idioms attributed to famous people
I don't know there are these ideas get stuck in our head and we just assume they are true for some reason. This "the capitalist will sell us the rope we will use to hang him" is prolific, its everywhere and one has to wonder why. There's no truth in it. People would attribute it to Marx too but Marx would never say that. I think its a cultural relic that serves to make communism sound badass and scary. But hanging capitalists will not put the world on the path to socialism, if anything the opposite must be true.
I always read it metaphorical in terms of 'they make available the resources with which to undermine them'
Well Marx already has the formulation of "capitalism creates its own gravediggers" which is his idea that the material conditions created by capitalism create individuals who are committed to overthrow it, and so the challenge historically is how to get these people all pulling the same correct direction, and once you do, how do you keep it from breaking apart or giving into reformism or whatever.
But there's something about the way it is framed? Those of us who want to see capitalism overthrown are able to read something more abstract into it, but the metaphor persists more or less intact. The brutality of it never gives way to the truth that we read into it. So in that way when we accept the truth there is violence that hitches a ride in our reasoning. How far are we then from Bordiga's formulation of "Socialism and Barbarism"? Idk. Everyone knows that quote, but people don't know about Matewan, or the American Strike waves of 1932, or Burkina Faso, or Pancho Villa.
In short, is what we are learning and repeating educational in a revolutionary way? After all, as Paulo Friere said, "When education isn't liberating it is the dream of the oppressed to become the oppressor."