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July 26, 2023 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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THE TRUTH ABOUT OPPENHEIMER!
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Oppenheimer goes something like this.
I'm completely evil and sociopathic and I will stare at you with my Cillian Murphy eyes like a Camaro high beams blinkers to the point I'll never blink, I'll smoke endlessly and I'll apparently be so thin that I make Dylan Mulvaney look like meatloaf.
So I'm basically a two-dimensional character both in terms of my thinness and in terms of my characterization.
Cillian Murphy just stares like this, looks vaguely haunted and that's the entire fucking affect for the entire fucking movie.
He has all of the emotional depth of a Petri dish and all of the character arc of Flatland.
So, yeah, there's nothing really going on there.
Now, it turns out, I'm a complete sociopath, says the guy.
He's a complete sociopath, and he's a womanizer and a chain smoker, and he sleeps with all of the broken, washed-up detritus of communist propaganda that he can get his filthy little nicotine-stained hands on.
He also, oh, did you know, tried to murder...
His tutor when he was in college, really, really stable, wonderful, excellent fellow, just tried to murder his tutor when he was in college because, you see, his tutor said, you kind of got to do a little bit less of the theoretical stuff.
You got to do some actual practical things, you know, build with your hands and so on.
Apparently, he was really nervous and his hands shook and he couldn't do the lab work.
So, you know, like anyone who's having trouble in school, doesn't your first thought go to, I think I'm going to poison everything.
My tutor to get him out of the way.
I'm going to poison the professor, the guy who's responsible for my marks, so I'm going to get him out of the way.
Also, I am J. Robert Oppenheimer.
All of my friends and family are communists.
My dog is a communist.
Three of my goldfish regurgitate their food into each other's gills because they're all communists.
So my mailman is a communist.
My heater is a communist.
My carpet is a communist.
And, of course, your dog is always a communist whenever you've got food.
So I'm completely surrounded by communists.
I donate to communist causes.
How do I donate to communist causes?
Well, my father, who was an importer-exporter, died in the 1930s.
very rich guy I inherited hundreds of thousands of dollars quite a lot of
money in the modern world and I donated to a lot of communist
causes I sleep with communists some of the communist women I sleep
with are completely psycho and end up killing themselves
and this is of course because communism failed in the 1930s to take root in
America it's always tough when communists don't get to kill people
it's really tough for them right because they don't get to kill other people they
end up having to kill themselves
so there's that oh also as J. Robert Oppenheimer not only do I try to poison and murder my tutor
also also funny story not only sleeping with broken washed up detritus
communist suicidal girls but also I will sleep with the wife
Of a colleague and then get her pregnant.
And when he doesn't want to divorce her, no biggie, no worries, no troubles.
I'm going to just get a quickie divorce.
I'm going to get her to get a quickie divorce through Vegas.
Then I'm going to have a kid with her.
Funny story. Turns out the guy tries to poison his own mentor and sleep with everything that's red under the sun.
Turns out not a great dad.
Oh, his wife, the woman he steals from another colleague and has an affair with and gets pregnant, The wife is an alcoholic and abusive towards their child.
But hey, it's no worry. Because what you can do, here's the thing, spoiler, you know, if you're having trouble raising your baby, if you're having trouble with your baby, no biggie.
All you have to do, one simple thing, you pick your baby up, put your baby basically in a suitcase, drive over to your local communist hellhole house and dump your baby on them.
Just, you know, drop your baby on them and you'll be fine.
You'll be good to go.
So, yeah, you just veer from poisoning people to seducing broken and self-destructive and suicidal women to impregnating the wife of a colleague, having her drunken ass abuse your baby, and then just dump the baby off with some other communist.
So this is how we go in the realm of Oppenheimer.
Now, you might think to yourself, boy, you know, this sounds like a real...
How should I put it? This sounds like a real fucking evil villain.
I mean, is that unfair for me to say?
Does that not seem like an evil fucking villain to you?
No. You can't be an evil villain.
Because he's apparently this guy who murders and abuses his children and has affairs all the time and sleeps with everything that moves and so on, and tries to murder a guy.
He's just all about soulful, blue-eyed conscience, man.
He's just all about feeling bad about things.
So, you've got no character arc, a completely incomprehensible character with no access, emotionally, from the audience to the actor.
It's just horrendous.
So... I don't know.
Sorry, I know that there's a lot of people here.
I don't know. This is just going to be one of these things.
It's just going to be one of these tech nights.
And do you know why it's a tough tech night?
So that I can get even better.
I can get even better rants out of myself.
He wasn't likable, had questionable partners, smoked all the time, and then the bomb.
Wasn't a great guy? Would have fit in well with all the Nazis.
Yeah, yeah. His record player only plays Soviet music.
Yeah, dumping your baby is the way Karl Marx would want it.
Yes, he did that too. All right, so here's some facts about our good friend J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Let's get to him.
He was born in New York City, April 22nd, 1904, to a wealthy textile importer, Julius Oppenheimer, and his wife, Ella Oppenheimer.
She was a painter. Which now reminds me of that Christa Burke song.
So they lived in Manhattan, a very wealthy apartment with fine European furniture, servants, and original paintings by Picasso, Rembrandt, and Van Gogh.
Robert was a solitary and precocious child who enjoyed mineralogy and writing poetry.
They were a non-observant Jewish family and they sent young Hoppenheimer to the Ethical Culture School.
And the Ethical Culture School was not religious, not particularly Jewish.
But founded on principles of rationalism and progressive secular humanism.
The author of Robin Oppenheimer, A Life Inside the Center, said to the outside world he was always known as a German Jew, and he always insisted that he was neither German nor Jewish.
So... He attended the Ethical Culture School, graduated in 1921.
He had an attack of colitis, which is a bowel disease, contracted while prospecting in Joachimstel during a family vacation.
And anyway, he ended up becoming an outdoor guy, lifelong New Mexico love affair guy.
Fall of 1922, he entered Harvard University, studied chemistry briefly, switched to physics, Not very big on social graces, very awkward, tense, uptight, neurotic, and Basil's lifelong depression, and he took a heavy load of poetry and not very good in the personal hygiene department.
He said, recalling this time, Oppenheimer later said, my feeling about myself was always one of extreme discontent.
So, he was unhappy.
He ended up going to Cambridge.
He basically had to cross the pond to do good physics.
The good physics was happening in Europe, not so much in America, and certainly not in Canada.
At Cambridge, of course, he studied physics.
Physics, his clumsiness in the lab suggested that he should do theoretical rather than experimental physics.
And Oppenheimer was very unhappy at Cambridge and wrote to a friend, quote, I'm having a pretty bad time.
The lab work is a terrible bore and I'm so bad at it that it's impossible to feel.
I'm learning anything. He developed an antagonistic relationship with his tutor Patrick Blackett, a future Nobel laureate.
So this is the guy who said you've got to be good at lab work.
So, in 1926, Oppenheimer saw his tutor as a bully and grew to resent him, so he laced an apple with poison and placed it on Blackett's desk.
You know, as you do.
You know, got trouble with your teacher?
Bye-bye, teacher. I mean, this is straight-up Bateman stuff, right?
While on vacation, Oppenheimer confessed what he'd done to a friend and decided I really should cut my vacation short and go back to Cambridge to see if my tutor that I poisoned was okay.
Blackett and the university, though, had caught wind of Oppenheimer's little plot before Blackett could eat his apple and intended to press charges against Oppenheimer for attempting to murder one of their employees.
And the future ghosts of approximately a quarter million Japanese souls are coming back in time attempting to say, charge him, charge him, charge him, save us, save us, save us.
Oppenheimer's, of course, wealthy and influential parents, intervened to ensure Oppenheimer wasn't charged.
Because there's nothing that says good parenting like erasing the consequences of your child's misdeeds.
Just fine, excellent stuff totally teaches responsibility, he said, with near-infinite sarcasm.
So, yeah.
Of course, he did therapy, spoke to an analyst, I assume a Freudian analyst back then, but didn't really seem to do much good for him.
So... Also, he had a friend named Ferguson.
Ferguson once tried to distract Oppenheimer from his crushing depression by saying, Hey, Oppie, I'm going to marry my girlfriend!
And Oppenheimer leapt up on Ferguson, wrestled him to the ground, and tried very hard to strangle him.
Yeah. I suppose this would be his second murder attempt before, you know, he hit obviously the jackpot of Murderfest over Japan.
So yeah, he inherited almost $400,000, almost $8 million in 2022 dollars divided between Oppenheimer and his brother Frank.
Frank also a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the United States.
Yeah. A lot of physics.
A lot of physicists were communists.
I don't want to bore you all if you know all of this stuff already, but did you ever know what Albert Einstein had to say about Vladimir Lenin?
Vladimir Lenin?
You ever hear this? Einstein.
Einstein. Lenin.
Quote. I remember posting this on Twitter way back in the day.
Oh, he says, Albert Einstein said, I honor Lenin as a man who completely sacrificed and devoted all his energy to the realization of social justice.
One thing is certain. Men of his type are the guardians and restorers.
Of humanity.
Then of course set up all of the gulags, slaughtered millions, enslaved an entire
continent so to speak, and set up the foundation of international communism that so provoked the Nazis.
Just appalling.
Thank you.
you Just appalling.
It's incomprehensible.
I mean, why physicists would listen to political...
Like, why you'd listen to physicists on political philosophy is completely incomprehensible.
I check my email inbox, of course, every day, looking for always the great news that comes when you're a moral philosopher.
And as yet, as yet, I have yet to be asked to deliver my thoughts on physics.
By an international physics consortium.
It's really, really appalling.
Oh, Einstein. Did he bang his cousin?
I'd heard that. I'd heard that.
I'm not doubting you. Einstein.
Well, he wasn't, you know, wasn't a biologist.
Maybe he wasn't that big on genetics.
Is that right? Did he?
Ahhhh.
All right. The story of Elsa Einstein's cruel incestuous marriage to Albert Einstein.
Elsa Einstein was Albert Einstein's wife.
She was also his first cousin and he cheated on her a lot.
Well, what can I say?
Ah, what can I say?
Alright, so let me get back to a couple of more thoughts on Oppenheimer.
I'll tell you about my thoughts on the movie.
So in August of 1944, yeah, so the woman he had sex with, he had an affair with for many years, Jean Tatlock, an American psychiatrist and physician.
And she was a communist and...
Good to know that she's a psychiatrist and thus an expert on mental health, because she ended up committing suicide in 1944.
So, a couple of months after his long-term girlfriend commits suicide, Oppenheimer meets Kitty Pwenning, a radical Berkeley student and former Communist Party member.
Although she claimed that her father was a prince and that her mother was related to Queen Victoria, this was untrue.
So, Cheats on her husband, gets pregnant with her lover, divorces her husband, abuses her child, and a pathological liar!
This is hell itself.
This is hell itself.
And that is appalling.
Her first marriage lasted only a few months.
She obtained an annulment of her marriage from the Superior Court of Wisconsin on December 20, 1933.
She later told friends that she'd discovered evidence that Ram Sire, or Ram Sire, her husband, was a homosexual and a drug addict.
She also had an abortion.
Don't mention that in the movie.
They mention about her second marriage.
It's a common-law marriage to Joe Dallet, an active member of the Communist Party, who was killed in the Spanish Civil War.
She got a bachelor's degree in botany, bachelor of arts degree in botany.
She married Richard Harrison, a physician and medical researcher, in 1938.
So, since his breakup with the girl who killed herself, Oppenheimer had dated several women.
They slept together, Oppenheimer and Kitty, after a party.
In the summer of 1940, she stayed with Oppenheimer at his ranch in New Mexico.
And then she got pregnant.
Kitty later told her friend that she got Robert to marry her the old-fashioned way, by getting
pregnant.
Anyway.
This is a man with virtually, absolutely, completely and totally zero redeeming qualities.
Thank you.
Zero redeeming qualities.
Why is it the more formal education people have, the fewer street smarts they seem to have?
Well, as I said, I don't trust anybody who's never had to work with his or her hands.
Why would you trust anybody who's never had to deal with actual reality?
So, the movie.
Oh, the movie, the movie, the movie.
TFL, too freaking long.
It is a long movie. Also, no footage of the bombings of Japan.
So they couldn't spend five minutes for the quarter of a million people murdered by Oppenheimer's deadly toy, as Sting sang.
Couldn't spare five minutes for that.
But you know what they could spend a fucking hour on was how, you know, just...
I mean, okay, it's true.
He was a murderer. He was an adulterer.
He was a child abuser.
Oh, he was an attempted murderer.
He was a child abuser.
He was an adulterer.
Tried to strangle his friends when his friends gave him good news.
Built a weapon that slaughtered a quarter million people, some instantaneously, many over the course of weeks or months or years.
Destroyed the genetics of an entire region.
But you know what was really tough for old Oppie?
You know what was really tough? It was really tough That despite being neck deep in communists and donating to communist causes and never having worked an honest day's labour in his entire fucking life, you know what was really tough for old RP? Wasn't the people he tried to kill?
Wasn't the child or children he abused?
Wasn't the girlfriend he may have half driven to suicide?
No, no, no. What was tough, man, was he had this security badge.
You know? Like he had this security badge and then the government took it away.
Now why did the government take it away?
Well, because shortly after Oppenheimer and a bunch of other physicists says, you know, it really is only fair that Russia gets the bomb.
Hey, funny story!
Russia got the bomb. Interesting.
You know, that guy should really get 20 bucks.
You get 20 bucks in your wallet.
Oh, look, he's got 20 bucks. Where's the 20 bucks in your wallet?
Oh, it's gone. Oh, I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
It's really tough.
I mean, it certainly is true that a quarter million Japanese souls did enjoy clinging to this veil of tears and being upright bipeds, not irradiated nuclear shadows on the sides of shattered walls.
It's true that they did, in fact, prefer to live.
But, on the other hand, there was a really nice laminated plastic card that Oppenheimer had that he wanted to hang on to, but he just wasn't allowed to.
Isn't that...
That's the real tragedy.
We don't have any time. For, like, we'll spend 20 minutes on the test of the bomb.
Where everyone's just like, I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
Pretentious phrase. Got 20 minutes for the bomb test.
Don't have three minutes.
For the... It radiated and erased Japanese citizens.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, of course, well, there was no point bombing Tokyo because that had been firebombed into oblivion.
They did not bomb Kyoto for reasons of cultural significance, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they bombed a couple of days apart.
I mean, the government didn't even have time to respond to the first bombing before the second bombing had occurred.
Women and children, not a military target.
There were no military targets left on Japan by the time summer 1945 rolled around.
It was just women and children.
The men were either at war or had been killed in the war.
It was just women and children.
It was a dictatorship, so killing women and children didn't change the political structure.
Now, it is true that those women and the men, of course, had raised their children so brutally that they were cannon fodder for a totalitarian dictatorship.
And of course, Oppenheimer manages to wash his hands Of the blood.
The irradiated, steaming, bubbling human blood.
Because he says, hey man, this political decision has nothing to do with me.
Nothing to do with me.
Whatsoever. Yes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't in the top five most destroyed cities.
Yeah. I mean, the firebombing of Tokyo killed more people.
But again, that was a short-term instant death.
It wasn't irradiated. It wasn't genetic destruction.
It wasn't radiation poisoning and so on.
But there was virtually nothing left in Tokyo.
The firebomb is when you create a ring and you bomb around the ring.
It sucks all the air in, which causes a firestorm and literally the air is on fire and there's no place to hide.
And of course, Japanese cities are paper and wood for the most part back then.
Okay, so hit me with a why.
If you are an American and you believe that the bombing of Japan was necessary, because otherwise...
Many more lives would have been lost to the invasion of Japan.
Maybe with a Y, if you've been told that they had to bomb Japan, because otherwise Japan
would never have surrendered and you would have had to invade the mainland.
There are some.
Okay.
Yeah, that's not true.
Thank you.
Yeah, that's not true.
Oh, also, did you know that J. Robert Oppenheimer's daughter committed suicide?
So there's that.
So the fact of the matter regarding Japan, and this is not particularly controversial at this point,
is that the Japanese leadership was already suing for peace before the bombs were dropped.
In fact, most seven out of the eight generals who were reviewing it didn't want to drop the bomb on Japan, the atomic bombs on Japan.
Japan was already suing for peace, and they were doing so through the Russians, and then that became more challenging as the Russians declared war on Japan, and Japan was facing a two-front war with the Americans in the Pacific and, of course, the Russians coming down through Vladivostok to the mainland.
So they couldn't win that. They knew that.
They believed, of course, that their emperor was divinely inspired and put there by God himself, and so they said, listen, you can do anything you want, just don't hang the emperor.
We'd like to keep the emperor. And the Americans said, no, it's unconditional surrender.
They nuked, and then they nuked again, and of course Japan surrendered.
People think this is causal, but as it turns out, The Japanese said, you can have an unconditional surrender, except don't kill our emperor, we want to keep our emperor.
And the Americans said, no, no emperor.
And then after the peace, the emperor was allowed to stay anyway.
Zero. I mean, peace like war is just another government program.
And it's about as efficient as every other government program.
So these are all, I don't know, why is it impossible to have a guy this monstrous, this destructive, this violent, this predatory?
Why can't you just play him as a bad guy?
Is that illegal in Americans?
Like, you can't just play him as a bad guy?
Is that not possible?
I mean, even if we take outside the Manhattan Project stuff and all of that, he's an evil guy.
Right? Well, of course, we don't see him directly abusing his child, but he married a woman who was a child abuser and a drunk.
So, there's no question that he tried to kill people.
So, why can't he be played as a bad guy?
I don't know why that's... Why is that impossible?
Because here's what's so completely screwed up about this, right?
Is that you have...
I mean, Christopher Nolan, his movies are sociopathic, soulless, piece of art trickery.
They're clever.
I mean, I remember doing...
I did a review of...
Inception. Many years ago.
You can find it at fdrpodcast.com.
And I just remember, like, they're getting down into dreams and it's just, the dreams are just like, I station zebra snow fights with guys in pockets.
Like, it's just, it's that pathetic, that unimaginative.
Memento, right? Sociopathic, empty-hearted, head trauma trickery.
That's all it is. There's no soul.
There's no depth. There's no humanity.
There's no story arc.
There's no moral understanding of anything.
It's one of the reasons I couldn't stand the movie Interstellar.
Oh my God. Oh my God.
It's just awful. Soulless.
Nobody has any family.
Nobody in these movies has any family.
No mothers, no fathers.
In this one there was a sibling.
No. Nobody has any family considerations.
Nobody has any parents, grandparents.
It's all just isolated intellects in the void.
It's horrible. You have a monster in human form in the form of Oppenheimer.
You're a monster in human form.
The Batmans are good.
Yeah, I understand where you're coming from.
in which case he should just stay to comic book characters.
No depth, no heart, no emotions, no connection, no empathy, no compassion, and no morality.
No morality. No morality at all.
And not just in the content in the film, but the entire structure of the film.
And I'll finish this up in a sec, because I want to get to your questions and comments.
It can be about anything you want.
This doesn't have to be a whole show.
God forbid we don't have to make a movie as long.
We don't have to have a live stream as long as the damn movie, which felt like...
It's one of the few movies where I was like, oh my god, we've got another half hour to go.
Another half hour of Robert Downey Jr.
grinding his teeth and pretending to act...
Oh. Nah, he was fine.
He was fine. They were all fine.
Kenneth Branagh was fine.
Matt Damon was fine.
Emily Blunt was fine.
But my God, they all look like shit on a stick.
Was that just me? Like, I saw it in IMAX, and it's just like, okay, like, the guy's head is 90 feet tall.
Can we get a little fucking makeup on?
Like, Emily Blunt is a beautiful woman with those pouty, bitter lips and those slow doe eyes.
And it's like, if you're going to have camera footage that makes Emily Blunt look like four miles of bad road, I don't even know what to say.
I don't even know what to say. People don't look like that.
They don't look like that in real life.
So why do they look like that in movies?
Cillian Murphy just staring all day.
I'm smoking. I'm standing.
I'm skinny. I'm staring.
I'm soulless. A lot of...
And then like, out your hiss.
But... Yeah, Robert Downey Jr.
climbed into a random child's bed while high on heroin.
Was it heroin? Yeah, no one cares, right?
Yeah, I mean, the Christopher Nolan movies are like the empty-headed superhero of visual entertainment.
Sorry, the empty-headed supermodel of visual entertainment.
All pretty, no depth.
All cleavage, no brain folds.
But he wanted to keep his security clearance.
He did try and murder a bunch of people.
He did create a weapon that killed a quarter million people.
A quarter million people.
Unnecessarily. Unnecessarily.
And I believe, though, of course, there's no absolute proof, there's indications based upon the Venona decrypts of the Soviet cables, that he may have been involved in handing over Information to the Communist Empire to develop bombs, atomic bombs. I mean, the Rosenbergs were convicted and executed for this.
There was another guy, the son of a Lutheran minister, who was also implicated in this.
You know, it's funny.
I mean, to me, it's just wild.
It's just wild. Just take one of these crimes, right?
Guy tries to murder his tutor for being harsh on him because he's not competent.
I mean, that would be a whole whodunit story.
That'd be an Agatha Christie novel.
Just that one crime is an Agatha Christie novel right there.
who tried to poison the teacher.
The movie brushes past that.
Bye.
Thank you.
I don't think it even mentions it.
I missed the first few minutes, but I don't think it even mentions it.
There's something with Kenneth Brown and an apple and a worm, but...
And I don't mention that he tries to strangle his friend.
Because that, you know, the unfortunate thing is having any kind of fight scene would have caused Cillian Murphy to actually have to blink, and basically the movie is him with his eyes propped open, clockwork orange style, gazing with those ice-blue tunnels to nothing into the camera perpetually, looking haunted!
Haunted! When I was in theater school, you never play a mood.
I'm haunted. Thin-cheeked and haunted.
All these crimes.
All these crimes that this man committed.
All these moral crimes.
Crimes of violence.
Crimes of attempted murder.
Crimes of child abuse. Crimes of exploitation.
Moral crimes of impregnating another man's wife.
And if not driving, at least, being heavily involved with a woman who self-slaughtered.
All of this. Even if you take the building of the bomb entirely off the table, which is, you know, the whole point of the movie.
You take all of that off the table.
All of it. And what happens?
They spend no time on the slaughter of the quarter million people.
They spend an hour on stupid, inane, boring, bureaucratic wrangling about his security
clearance after the war.
I got this great movie idea, see?
Go with me on this. Okay, go with me on this.
It's Charles Manson and the Manson family.
We're going to completely brush over the Sharon Tate murders.
We're going to completely brush over all of that stuff.
What we're going to do is we're going to focus for at least a third of the movie.
We're going to focus on Charles Manson fighting a parking ticket.
That's the movie.
Tell me what you think. Oh, wait.
I got another one if you don't like that one.
Okay. Mass murderer.
Son of Sam. Serial killer.
And we spend most of the movie about him wrangling with the city council to build a garden shed.
What do you guys think? We won't show any of the murders.
We won't show any of the victims.
But man, does he ever want that garden shed.
And he's willing to stand up.
Well, not really stand up.
He's willing to sit and murmur.
And he's almost willing to blink.
That's how serious this shit is.
He's almost willing to blink.
To get the garden shed.
What do you guys think?
What do you think?
I mean that has hit all over it, doesn't it?
doesn't it?
Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay, it's Rasputin.
It's Rasputin. And most of the movie is going to focus on the fact that Rasputin was really having trouble getting his plumbing fixed at the Winter Palace.
A lot of wrangling with the plumber.
We're going to zoom in on blueprints.
There's going to be a lot of disputes about water pressure at levels and bills and costs.
It's going to be incredible.
It's gonna be incredible, man.
A three-hour drama about the Zodiac Killer attempting to renew his driver's license at the DMV.
Isn't that wild?
I mean, if somebody told me ahead of time, it's going to be a lot of legal wrangling.
And absolute...
Oh, here we go.
Come on, give me this. Give me this, my friends.
Have you ever had a committed psychologizingist in your midst?
Hit me with a why. A psychologizingist is somebody you have a legitimate beef with, but they make up some ridiculous psychological explanation as to why you have a beef with them.
Like somebody who's really a difficult, dangerous, and nasty person, and they're like, well, you know, I ended up dating some girl, he was interested, and he just hated me ever since then.
Hit me with a Y if you've ever had a psychologist in your life at any time, day, or night.
Because, yeah, there's a guy who's really suspicious of...
Oppenheimer and his communist affiliations and possibly passing atomic secrets over to the communist dictatorship known as the USSR, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
And what's the explanation?
Oh, well, some years ago, about the matter of isotope exports to Europe, Oppenheimer really made fun of him and people laughed at him and it was humiliating.
He's hated him ever since then.
Oh my god. He's just hated him ever since then.
You see this all the time.
Somebody's angry at someone.
It's never a just moral cause.
It's never reasonable ethical suspicions.
It's always some bizarre petty blowback from some stupid incident that probably nobody
even remembers anyway.
And of course, what else do people say about the end of the Second World War and the bombs?
They say, ah, well, you see...
They wanted to show the Soviet Union who was boss by blowing up the bomb.
Of course, they could have done that without incinerating a quarter million or killing a quarter million Japanese.
But they gave Eastern Europe to the Soviets anyway.
See, we've got to go to war.
To protect Poland from a dictatorship.
So what we should do, even though we have ultimate power at the end of the war, what we should do, after showing Russia who's boss, is give Poland to a dictatorship anyway.
The whole point of the war, the reason why the war was ended into, was to save Poland from a dictatorship, then just hand over Poland to a dictatorship.
Well, of course, that was all of the communist spies at the Potsdam Conference in Yalta, all the spies surrounding FDR and giving him advice.
Think of all of the 40 million people slaughtered in the Second World War just so communists could hand over half of Europe to communist dictators.
Yeah. Wormtongue wins.
Aragorn dies by the millions.
All right. I do not recommend the movie.
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