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tornado34jh

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8. Interesting. But there is some big irony in this
Tue Nov 12, 2024, 09:41 PM
Nov 12

I read about the years leading up to Berlin Wall coming down (I wasn't born yet at the time), and reading the words, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down his wall! Now as an aside, his last name was actually Gorbachyov. In Russian, ё and e are two different letters. The former is put as yo while the latter is e, or ye if is at the beginning of the word, after a soft sign, or after a vowel. However, in practice, the distinction is often not shown. But I digress. In any case, you know, Reagan would be considered left to the MAGA bastards. Think about this: what did Putin and Heydar Aliyev (the father of Ilham Aliyev) of Azerbaijan have in common? They were KGB officers. Ironically, when Russia says that they are a bastion of traditional values, while they may be the case now in the Orthodox Church, at the time during the Soviet Union, they weren't, or at least not openly. So they are hypocritical and don't know their own history.

But again, to these MAGA voters, when it comes to Trump and Putin, they see no evil, hear no evil, or speak no evil, and even that expression has irony in itself. The original story of the three wise monkeys, which was based in Confucianism in Japan, says to avoid evil and be prudent about it. But yeah, they are hypocrites.

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