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Are you daft? It's two of the greatest/most-importants minds of the 20th century meeting in the post ww2 era. From the western side - Kissinger is arguably ri
by dontupvoteme 3y ago
Are you daft? It's two of the greatest/most-importants minds of the 20th century meeting in the post ww2 era.
From the western side - Kissinger is arguably right up there with Machiavelli, his influence is immutable. and Mao sort of made modern china.
- samstave 3y agoYou left out the Evil multiplier. These are also two of the most vile things to live in the last 500 years. Their great minds are what allowed them to get away with the murder hundreds of millions.
- cryptonector 3y agoThat doesn't make these memos not interesting. Quite the contrary!
- samstave 3y agoI didnt claim that, yes these evil POSs are fascinating, but that doesnt make them any less despicable :-)
- dang 3y agoHey, please omit swipes from your HN posts. Your comment would be fine without that first bit. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- cryptonector 3y agoI don't think u/dontupvoteme meant it the way you took it. "Are you daft?" didn't come across as a swipe but as a bit of a British-like exclamation on their point. Could be a language thing.
- avgcorrection 3y agoConsidering how understated British insults are, this looks like a slap to the face comparatively speaking.
- cryptonector 3y agoOr just emphasis.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoYes that was out of line, apologies.