The trove has been leaking like a sieve over the last few months. I'm not sure what else people are expecting to see at this point.
There's this bizarre insistence that one more big scandal will be the final straw. And we've been playing this game since Hillary released "Grab'em by the pussy".
If anything, Trump put Putin where he is. But, more realistically, it was the Clinton CIA / State Department that elevated Putin, with Trump simply operating as a bag man.
And we have all of this because Obama made fun of Trump at some big presser, makes you think, right?
Well, we had it because Hillary positioned Trump as a cat's paw within the Republican Primary, hoping he'd be able to soften up Jeb and Cruz in the primary, while she finished them off at the general election.
Before that, Trump was a Democrat, mocking Republicans, playing golf with Bill, and endorsing Hillary for senate.
Can't forget how many Democrats showed up in the Epstein emails, texts, and flight logs. Dude was giving Larry Summers "how to cheat on your wife" advice.
Just imagine who the bankers have selected as our future candidates!
I cannot help reading that to myself with a thick Indian accent.
See, it came to me in the voice of The Music Man.
"Yessir! Genuine, on-time, serves you wine when you dine. This here's gonna be a package you'll be thrilled to receive. Just 48 hours and its all yours, sign on the dotted line, no that's just fine. Here, here, and here, good sir. You've got excellent penmenship and a smile to match."
Honey, listen. If you'd just watch the ad, he said his brain was in the Cloud. He's omnipresent now. He can talk to any of us.
Look! Look! I still have the link. Damn, why won't this link work? If you could just see the link, honey. He was talking to me. He said, I'd won and that I was incredibly smart. He said we've been chosen! We don't have to live in this shitty apartment anymore. He's going to take us away with him to Mars!
HONEY! Come back! I love you and I want to live in the computer on Mars together!
...
Fuck. Well, fine. I guess I'll just go find an AI girlfriend.
as the adherents aren’t acting in ways that are harmful to others
The Buddhist successors to the Mongolian/Qing Dynasty were plenty harmful to others. That's what sparked the student revolts responsible for their leadership's removal.
You can blame the icky yicky communists for polarizing and galvanizing upwardly mobile tibetan youth into an insurgency. But falling back on CIA agitprop to justify what was effectively a US military operation intended to destabilize a border region isn't proof of your humanitarianism. Even the Dalai Lama himself regrets letting the CIA militarize Tibet.
The fact that the US reneged on their promises and only used Tibet to extract information about China is depressing, but not surprising.
It's the story of the Cold War told over and over again. The goal of these operations is to spark civil war, not to liberate or liberalize any population.
You're not allowed to talk about this. This is Far-Left Tankie Bullshit Lies and also it doesn't matter and also nothing the Dali Lama or his brother said in hindsight matters.
In 1999, the Dalai Lama suggested that the CIA Tibetan program had been harmful to Tibet because it primarily served American interests, claiming “once the American policy toward China changed, they stopped their help … The Americans had a different agenda from the Tibetans.”
Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama’s elder brother, also expressed frustration with the role of the CIA in Tibetan affairs. In a 2009 interview, he stated “I never asked for CIA military assistance. I asked for political help. I wanted to publicize the Tibet situation, to make a little noise. The Americans promised to help make Tibet an independent country. All those promises were broken.” He continues, claiming that America “didn’t want to help Tibet. It just wanted to make trouble for China. It had no far-sighted policy for Tibet. I wasn’t trained for this (clandestine operations). We didn’t know about power politics.”
The important thing to remember is that Tibet is a free country being villainously occupied and oppressed by the Evil Chinese Invaders. Everyone in Tibet hates everyone in China. They yearn for freedom. And if we can just put enough heavy weapons into the hands of Tibetian dissidents the country will explode into a liberal democracy of freedom and liberty and Buddhism which is the one good religion that everyone on Lemmy loves.
This apparently isn’t even the “real” Panchen Lama
Sort of the joke of religious doctrine. These people aren't actually reincarnated Buddhist Wizards who can magically divine the destiny of their successors.
These are humans, they can be educated and influenced as easily as anyone, and their politics/religion is a consequence of their upbringing rather than some magical pre-birth spiritual intuition. And they can also grow up, realize their position in the world, and regret their decisions in hindsight.
Gyalo Thondup, the Dalai Lama's elder brother, also expressed frustration with the role of the CIA in Tibetan affairs. In a 2009 interview, he stated "I never asked for CIA military assistance. I asked for political help. I wanted to publicize the Tibet situation, to make a little noise. The Americans promised to help make Tibet an independent country. All those promises were broken." He continues, claiming that America "didn't want to help Tibet. It just wanted to make trouble for China. It had no far-sighted policy for Tibet. I wasn't trained for this (clandestine operations). We didn't know about power politics."
During the Tibetan program's period of activity, some of its largest contributions to the CIA's interests in the region came in the form of keeping the Chinese occupied with resistance, never actually producing a mass uprising establishing independence for Tibet from Beijing. The program also produced a trove of army documents that Tibetan insurgents seized from the Chinese and turned over to the CIA in 1961 in what has been referred to as "one of the greatest intelligence successes of the Cold War".
Hey now, don't forget how much of the German wartime economy was functionally subsidized by American capital investment. War profiteering was at the heart of both World Wars, not to mention the fifty years of Cold War (and assorted hot conflicts) that followed.
Also worth noting that fascism, as a social institution, was rampaging through France and the UK and Spain and the Americas and North Africa and East Asia. Nazism wasn't a uniquely German characteristic. The German Blitz was the result of an effort to effectively re-colonize Europe through private sponsorship of an industrial war machine. All the dipshittery that followed was as prevalent outside Germany as inside of it. If you ever reach "Catch-22", a lot of the gags in that book had parallels to IRL fuckups performed by the US during their counter-invasion.
The real flaw in the German (and Japanese) war effort was their limited access to petroleum. These countries quite literally ran out of gas by the mid-40s.
Incidentally, the next 50 years of Cold War heavily revolved around which Superpowers had uncontested access to Middle Eastern petroleum reserves.
? Por que no los dos ?
Brooks is a notorious hack who built his career shilling for neoconservative policies from the Weekly Standard to the NYT to PBS.
But that social circuit ran through Florida and Texas, rather than New York and London. He's likely just tighter with a different group of pedophiles.