Paranoid Factoid<p>Garry Kasparov, spreaking at the Halifax 2023 forum, on the promises of dictators. </p><p>**“We have to believe dictators. When you look at their list of promises, they keep delivering on them.”**</p><p>A correllary of this is to also believe those who wishfully *hope to become* dictators, such as Trump. </p><p>H/T Halifax Forum at the hellsite. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kasparov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kasparov</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/garrykasparov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>garrykasparov</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russian</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussiaUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RussiaUkraineWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RussiaUkraineWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictators</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europeansecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europeansecurity</span></a></p>