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[Big_Bird]

[VanIslander]

with the ever worsening men-to-women ratios in China, gang rapes will become commonplace before long... that or a war to cull the herd

[Big_Bird]

[Guri Guy]

[jinju]

Prussia, Russia and Austria "incorporated" Polish territories in 1772 before fully taking over Poland in 1795. Its pretty much the same scenario and you are pretty much acting like a good german nationalist in 1938. Do you like the color brown for your shirts, GG?

[Pligganease]

[jinju]

[Gopher]

[Big_Bird]

[luvnpeas]

[Ilsanman]

I am glad you admit to seeing things in black and white. An ultra simple way to look at the word for an ultra simple minded person. When you graduate high school, you will realize that the world is made up of shades of grey, some places greyer than others.

[Guri Guy]

Don't worry Ilsanman. Jinjackass just doesn't get it. Too immature and naive to comprehend that there are three or four sides to every story. He will remain the "Useful idiot"* for Korea.

*In political jargon, the term "useful idiot" was used to describe Soviet sympathizers in western countries (particularly in the United States) and the alleged attitude of the Soviet government towards them. The implication was that the person in question was na�ve, foolish, or in willful denial, and was being cynically used by the Soviet Union, or another Communist state.

The term is now used more broadly to describe someone who is perceived to be manipulated by political movement, terrorist group, or hostile government, whether or not the group is Communist in nature.

Origins unknown

The term is purported to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin, sometimes in the form "useful idiots of the West", to describe those Western reporters and travellers who would endorse the Soviet Union and its policies in the West. However, no reference to a communist sympathizer or political leftist as a "useful idiot" was made in the United States until 1948, and not until decades later would the phrase be attributed to Lenin. In 1948, the phrase was used in a New York Times article in relation to Italian politics, and was not mentioned again in print until 1961. Critics of the term allege that the expression "useful idiot" has never been discovered in any published document of Lenin's, nor that anyone has claimed to have heard him say it. In the spring of 1987, Grant Harris, senior reference librarian at the Library of Congress, said "We have not been able to identify this phrase [useful idiots of the West] among [Lenin's] published works."[1]

The origin of the phrase "useful idiot" is unknown, and it is not clear why it was attributed to Lenin, although he is well-known for his polemic, often insulting language.

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