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“I’m actually on the side of a CIA”
Cool, time to join them.
:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:
“I am actually on the side of the Gestapo when it comes to Communists.” -Liberals circa 1930
This, but like, not as a joke. They actually were, check the NYT for some suspiciously positive coverage of Hitler in 1939.
Seriously, less than two weeks before the war started and long after camps were opened and Czechoslovakia was invaded.
More evidence that appeasement theory was always just revisionist propaganda.
They wanted to appease Germany right into invading the USSR. Getting him to invade countries was the point!
Yep! That’s why it’s so fucking funny.
Note: Its not funny… this timeline is so fucking dark.
I love the underlying implication that support of marginalized people is contingent upon them remaining marginalized.
It’s a pretty succinct distillation of the RadLib worldview. Only martyrs, never successful leaders. Only failed revolutions, never any that achieved national liberation.
Umm, actually victory is authoritarian. The status quo? Perfectly fine. :grillman:
I can’t remember the exact quote, but somewhere in The End Of The Tour, the David Foster Wallace character says something to the effect of this. When you’re small and unknown you convince yourself that the big players are sellouts and that your work is pure for being obscure. Then when you get big, you still judge yourself by those same metrics and it feels hollow
Isn’t that what countries do to spies?
The fact the CIA hasn’t said it’s a lie and they actually got their spies out… well, it’s a good idea to not work with the cia from the sounds of things.
Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg (née Greenglass) were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were convicted of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines and valuable nuclear weapon designs (at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons). Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to suffer that penalty during peacetime.[
For every scrub who takes a paying job to inform for the CIA, there are dozens who either know not to help the oppressor or weren’t privileged enough to get access to handlers. There were probably some well intentioned libs that got turned into narcs, maybe they’ll see the light and turn double agent
