The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming!

rickyb

Well-Known Member
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGGGG?????

“The movie has got a Chinatown LA confidential kind of a noir bent to it,” Norton told Joe Rogan last week. “It’s murder mystery that leads into some of the stuff that happened in New York in the 50s, stuff that is hard to believe. New York was run by a Darth Vader like figure who was never elected to public office. People thought he was the Parks Commissioner of New York. But from 1930 to 1968, he had uncontested authoritarian power over New York City and New York State and he made every significant decision about the way that the modern infrastructure of New York was built – where the roads went, where the bridges were built, what was torn down, where the projects were built. And he was very racist. And he baked really discriminatory things – that almost sound like conspiracy theory, they’re so wild and intense – into the decisions he made. He was responsible for the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn and going to LA. And nobody knows this. They think – New York is great, like the greatest melting pot city where democracy works, except that it was run by a total autocrat.”

“For 38 years?” Rogan asks.

“Yes. It’s broadly accepted that no Mayor or Governor of New York could do a single thing without his say so from basically about 1932 to about 1968.”

Edward Norton on Corporate Power Robert Moses Ralph Nader and Motherless Brooklyn - Corporate Crime Reporter
 

El Correcto

god is dead
THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING. WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGGGG?????

“The movie has got a Chinatown LA confidential kind of a noir bent to it,” Norton told Joe Rogan last week. “It’s murder mystery that leads into some of the stuff that happened in New York in the 50s, stuff that is hard to believe. New York was run by a Darth Vader like figure who was never elected to public office. People thought he was the Parks Commissioner of New York. But from 1930 to 1968, he had uncontested authoritarian power over New York City and New York State and he made every significant decision about the way that the modern infrastructure of New York was built – where the roads went, where the bridges were built, what was torn down, where the projects were built. And he was very racist. And he baked really discriminatory things – that almost sound like conspiracy theory, they’re so wild and intense – into the decisions he made. He was responsible for the Dodgers leaving Brooklyn and going to LA. And nobody knows this. They think – New York is great, like the greatest melting pot city where democracy works, except that it was run by a total autocrat.”

“For 38 years?” Rogan asks.

“Yes. It’s broadly accepted that no Mayor or Governor of New York could do a single thing without his say so from basically about 1932 to about 1968.”

Edward Norton on Corporate Power Robert Moses Ralph Nader and Motherless Brooklyn - Corporate Crime Reporter
Sounds like a great man and a true American.
 

MrFedEx

Engorged Member
looking forward to seeing the film. america has always been about a few people controlling everyone.

Like the USSR, or today's Russia? Correct, Canadian Comrade. President Trumpski is all about trying to be like his hero, Vladimir Putin.

There's one problem. Putin is scary smart. Trump is scary stupid.

See the problem?
 
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