From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 26/12/2025 03:20, c186282 wrote:   
   >>    Maybe old Will should have added 'intellectuals'   
   >>    along with 'lawyers' eh ?  :-)   
      
   On 2025-12-26, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   > IIRC it was Stalin who called them useful idiots and consigned them to   
   > the gulags once their usefulness expired...   
      
   That is an oft-reused playbook, also done by Mao Zedong and Pol Pot.   
      
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