https://twitter.com/mattduss/status/1529119587157037057

This person is a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders

14 points

A lot of this stems from the liberal idea that if someone’s evil then they’re also gonna be stupid. You can see it with Trump, Bush mk. 2 etc…

The problem we have with Kissinger isn’t that his analysis of things was dumb. It’s that he used it for greatest evil he could.

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8 points

his analysis was also dumb, but in a completely standard liberal way.

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9 points

In some ways it was wrong, but more in the sense that astronomers working within the paradigm of an earth centric solar system were wrong. Not dumb as such, just working with a flawed toolkit.

What I’m getting at is the liberal trend to view evil as either stupid or insane whereas Kissinger is neither.

I mean, his analysis comes up with it being a bad idea but probably for different reasons than others. I see the growing possibility of nuclear war and the suffering of countless innocents as a bad thing and a good reason not to pour petrol on the fire. He sees Russia as getting closer to China as the reason not to do so.

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6 points

yeah, that’s fair. some of the ideas he’s espoused were completely batshit, but he definitely isn’t any different functionally from your average technocrat, he was just better at saying/doing what people wanted in order to get access to the levers of power.

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Matt Dussy

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Got his ass

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how do i become an advisor to congress people

i want to advise them that walking into congress with a bomb strapped to their chest will be great for israel

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13 points

Choose your fighter anti-imperialism of Henry Kissinger or the anti-imperialism of George W Bush and the current US military.

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38 points

I fucking hate this war, but what exactly was so objectionable about neutrality status, devolution of power in ukraine and second language status for russian. What is so against leftlibs ideals there? :meow-tableflip: or language minority rights don’t spread into Eastern Europe by transient property of ussr bad?

Fucking porky war is over who gets to privatize ukraine

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Ah well you see it’s because Russia are the bad guys.

Russia does bad things to the good guys which makes them the bad guys. We are the good guys because we do bad things to the bad guys.

It’s good to do bad things to bad guys. It’s only bad to do bad things to good guys. This makes them the bad guys and us the good guys.

You see?

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18 points

Well, they didn’t hear about it, because what good would that do for NATO?

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