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clovisx t1_ja7hjrc wrote
Reply to comment by stout936 in ‘That’s my neighbour’: Mariupol residents’ shock at Putin’s parade line-up | Ukraine by madrid987
If you’d told 1990s me that we’d come to a point where the Republican Party and American conservatives were openly schilling for Russia and strongman, pro-authoritarian/proto-fascist leaders like Putin, Orban, Kadyrov, Lukashenko, etc… I wouldn’t have believed you.
I grew up at the end of the Cold War, saw the Berlin Wall come down, and caught the end of the proxy war in Afghanistan. Russia was “the enemy” and the authoritarian, Communist regime they represented was bad. Now we’ve got Putin who wants to be president/dictator for life, suppress rights and freedoms, and hates America. The conservatives, who wouldn’t have been caught dead saying anything good about the USSR, are openly praising his strongman posturing and the iron fist he tries to run his country with.
clovisx t1_ja7egoq wrote
Reply to comment by gozba in ‘That’s my neighbour’: Mariupol residents’ shock at Putin’s parade line-up | Ukraine by madrid987
He has the lips and hands of a piccolo player
clovisx t1_j9wwevm wrote
Reply to comment by something98123 in Nebraska cheerleader competes by herself at state competition, but crowd doesn't let her feel alone by BeagleWrangler
Kid in the home room next to mine in the 90s came to school with a bottle of orange juice, except it was a screwdriver. Threw up during morning announcements.
He did t pull it off.
clovisx t1_jb9bau9 wrote
Reply to Florida man finds giant clam estimated to be 214 years old by citytiger
First reaction: Cocoon was real and the Villages are way wilder than I thought.