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Russia Honors the Spy Who Stole the A-Bomb
An anonymous reader writes "The New York Times reports on the life of George Koval, codenamed Delmar, one of the most important spies to have infiltrated the Manhattan Project, the secret program that created the world's first nuclear weapon. President Putin recently granted Koval a posthumous Hero of the Russian Federation award, the highest honorary title that can be given to a Russian citizen. Koval was born in Iowa, spoke fluent American English, and played baseball. But he was also recruited and trained by the GRU, Russia's largest intelligence agency."
I was once eaten by a GRU.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
And you are naive if you think the Russian space program had no former nazi scientists working on their projects.
fuck you - you fucking commie scumbag!
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!
I'm not a "progressive". I'm about as libertarian as they come. I do find it curious that you automatically assume I'm one
Considering that you're getting royally pissed that I deign to criticize "progressives", I don't find it curious at all.
Such black-and-white "us vs them" thinking has been the bane of human civilization since the beginning.
That's kind of a black-and-white view. I prefer to be more nuanced than that.
Point being, while I don't agree with "progressive" politics, I'm not idiotic enough to go around telling everyone who will listen about how it's the ultimate evil.
Except that's not what I've said, dummy.
0. Murder, rape, and torture are evil.
1. Some "progressives" often exhort wishes of murder, rape, and torture on their hated enemies. That's evil.
2. Other "progressives" tolerate their "progressive" brethren when they make such evil wishes. That's evil too, but a lesser evil than #1.
It's just a difference in politics for fuck's sake.
If you're saying that wishing murder, torture, and rape upon hated enemies is part of "progressive" politics, then I completely agree with you.
My mom is a "progressive", so are many of my friends. I surely don't agree with them, but they're not "evil". And strangely enough, none of them advocate rape and murder
If one of their "progressive" friends wishes that anyone who reads World Net Daily be raped with a spool of razor wire, then would they object? I would object to that. In fact, I did. Apparently, you think I'm sucky to object to that.
If you pick and choose random posts on a discussion site from strangers to bolster your preconcieved political notions about large swaths of the US population, you're a moron. Plain. And. Simple.
That's retarded. I maintain: wishes of murder, torture, and rape are common from "progressives" as is the tolerance of such hate speech on their "progressive" websites. I'm going to speak against it, and I don't give a shit if you disapprove.
I'm sure I can point to plenty of people in "conservative" circles advocating murder
And you would be right. But slashdot isn't a conservative site, correct? That's why conservative hate speech is pretty rare here. Instead, there's "progressive" hate speech here, as you and I have seen, "for fuck's sake".
I guess that means "conservatism" is bankrupt too, doesn't it?
I never said "progressivism" (those scare quotes are EARNED) was bankrupt. I said, and maintain, that it accommodates hate speech specifically involving wishing murder, torture, and rape on its hated enemies.
To your question, I do criticize conservatives when they accommodate such speech, and such criticism is merited. It does not excuse hate speech on behalf of "progressives" and I will stand against it, every time, without fail, and no matter how much you hate it.
I don't make the rules. I just make fun of them.