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“The other day US President Donald Trump said: "With a communist in charge?
Look, you just go back a thousand years, it's been done many times, a thousand
years, it's never worked once."
He was talking about Zohran Mamdani, the leading candidate for New York City's
mayoral election on November 4, who says he is a democratic socialist, not a
communist. Close enough.
As for the thousand years, he must be talking about King Cnut the Dane who was
ruling England in 1025, and who does seem to have been a bit of a Kim
Jong-il-style communist, having inherited the Danish crown from his father
before invading England, and commanded the tides not to rise and all that,
although 1,000 years ago Karl Marx was 823 years away from inventing communism.
Anyway, Trump had forgotten that the previous day he had signed a critical
minerals deal with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to try to counter
China's dominance of their global supply.”
Via Clarice Boomshakala.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
